It is an achievement for a business to stay hot after four decades of dealing in cold, but that is exactly what Whiriskey Refrigeration has managed to achieve. Forty years after Clement and Maura Whiriskey first opened their doors, the company is barely recognisable from its modest beginnings. Since the move to Cregboy in Claregalway… Read more »
There was widespread sadness as the news spread of the passing of Moira Kelly of Caraun Road. Moira had a warm and gentle personality that made a huge impression of all that met over many years. In recent years Moira worked at the reception desk at Boston Scientific and made everyone welcome. She had a… Read more »
Playwright W. Somerset Maugham once wrote,”It is a funny thing, life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” It is very apt in today’s world also. Often we do not care about ourselves and do not live each moment to the best of our abilities. We settle for… Read more »
A sheer rock face, possibly the height of a three or four storey apartment block, has been hewn out of the earth near Ballinphuil, Corofin by massive machines that look like models to the naked eye from above the new M17-M18 Tuam-Gort motorway as progress continues apace on the project. Neither this massive rock face… Read more »
Ireland’s iconic Ashford Castle has been awarded the No.3 spot in a new Top 100 Hotels in the World list. The listing is courtesy of Travel Leisure, a prestigious New York travel publication in their World’s Best Awards 2015. The magnificent property in Cong which recently underwent a multi-million euro restoration project, has also been awarded… Read more »
Tributes have been paid to a Corofin man who died in tragic circumstances in a workplace accident last week. Joe Fahy, a 54-year old father of two, was killed after becoming trapped between two vehicles at a dismantler’s yard in Cahermorris, Corrandulla last Wednesday. Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, which is also… Read more »
A triumphant Dunmore pensioner has won her battle with her bank to honour a lodgement in an account belonging to her late husband over 40 years ago. Teresa Scahill, who will be 90 this year, has spent the past two years trying to access the money after finding the receipt when going through old documents at… Read more »
When the new M17/M18 Gort to Tuam motorway opens in 2018, motorists won’t be the only ones travelling along the route—bats will be flying overhead on a bridge built specially for them. Early work to enable the area’s bat population to navigate their way across the new road structure has recently been completed along the… Read more »
After forty years running a family business that started in 1833, Liam and Carol Madden have decided to close the nursery end of their business. The decision to retire from the nursery business that has been part of the Madden family for three generations was not taken lightly but having considered a number of factors… Read more »
Galway Independent Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has revealed that the NRA has informed her that the Minister for Transport must recommend the selected bypass route to Europe and sign off on it, prior to it being submitted to An Bord Pleanála. ‘This is a significant piece of information. What it means is that Minister Paschal… Read more »
In March 2015, John Cunniffe took over the management of the Garden Centre in the JPK Complex in Knockdoemore, Claregalway. He stocks a vast variety of trees and shrubs and provides a consultancy landscaping service. If you would like to have your basket, window boxes, tubs or planters filled, he will provide this service also…. Read more »
Local girl Lorraine Hession (27) from Cahernahoon, will represent Ireland in the Special Olympics in Los Angeles this summer. Lorraine is the youngest of five and lives at her home with her Mum and Dad. Lorraine began swimming at three years of age while attending preschool in Tuam. Little did Lorraine know at the time… Read more »
