Best Lighting:       Dalkey Players..”The Mill on the Floss” Best Setting:        Nenagh Players..”What Happened Bridgie Cleary” Best Sound:         Corofin Dramatic Society…”Life Sucks” Best Stage Crew: Holy Cross Best Supporting Actress (Confined) Anna Flaherty as Izzy in “Rabbit Hole”, Glenamaddy Players Best Supporting Actor (Confined) Patrick Coneran as Jason… Read more »

From the Journal.ie From the garden: Grow, Cook, Eat is back on TV this month and we’ll be tackling food waste We’ll be teaching you to grow onions, pumpkins, sweetcorn, courgettes, kale, beans and chillis for all shapes and sizes of gardens, writes Michael Kelly. Michael KellyGrower IF YOU ARE space constrained in your growing,… Read more »

Passport Application by thereluctantemigrant Far from thinking I deserved special treatment just cos I’m Irish n’all, long before the time came that my 3-year-old daughters passport was due to expire, I applied for her new one because I knew that the passport office would likely to be flat our issuing passport to folks that fancied an… Read more »

Onion Sets Dear Fellow Gardeners, Onion Sets  We would like to let you know that our onion sets have just arrived.  The variety is Forum – it’s a wonderful early maturing variety with round bulbs, great disease resistance and excellent flavour.  It is bolt resistant and one of the earliest types to mature. It’s often… Read more »

Spring Gardening with Paraic With spring truly breaking over the last couple of weeks, and Saint Patricks day around the corner, now is a great time to assess your garden and get it prepared for the summer. The shamrock that we so proudly adorn at this time of year to represent our Irish heritage is… Read more »

Emerging Adults by thereluctantemigrant Almost everyone that comes to Qatar has an end goal in mind. They say that they just want to try something different, they say the want to gain valuable diverse experience that will enhance their career, they say that they fancy life in the sun for a while, but the reality is,… Read more »

What legacy are we handing to the next generation? The decisions we make today have a direct impact not only on our lives but also on our planet and the lives of our children tomorrow. Napoleon Bonaparte said “Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious that being able to decide..” We think we are… Read more »

by Galway Advertiser.   Inspiring You (the people who brought us the massive Galway Girl video and other inspirational (events) have joined forces with Salthill Village and Steeltech Garden Sheds to help raise awareness about plastic pollution in our seas and with your help, end it. They are asking primary and secondary school students across… Read more »

The Wind; In primary (grade) school I learned this little poem about the four winds …in Irish, or ‘as gaeilge’ as we say here in Ireland. The Irish or Gaelic it is written in, is lovely, rich and rhyming, in a kind of way. There’s a wonderful cadence to it and a predictable pattern, akin… Read more »

  Have your say on the regeneration of Nuns’ Island  Galway Advertiser, Thu, Feb 07, 2019   NUI Galway and Galway City Council have welcomed the commitment of the Government’s Urban Regeneration and Development Fund for the exciting regeneration of Nuns’ Island in the heart of Galway City. The commitment supports a major planning exercise,… Read more »