Dear Fellow Gardeners, I wish all readers a wonderful and successful gardening year in 2018.  The last year was certainly quite a challenge with all the rain throughout the summer – especially here in the west. Let’s hope that we’ll finally get a great summer. I will have a busy spring – not busy with… Read more »

On Being Happy You can have flaws, be anxious, and ever angry, but do not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can stop it from going bust. Many appreciate you, admire you and love you. Remember that to be happy is not to have a sky without a… Read more »

The ‘Winter’ Concert It’s the one event of the year that is bound to bring a tear to the eye, the Christmas concert. Not so this year, though. With two teenagers on the verge of leaving school and a toddler not yet started, I’d seen it all and had it all to come again so… Read more »

By Mark Walsh, Tuam Herald BAWNMORE National School teacher Jonathan Beirne is delighted that he and his family can now fully celebrate being crowned Ireland’s Fittest Family for 2017, because the Co Leitrim native had to keep their victory under wraps for four months, which proved the hardest part of the whole process. The final of… Read more »

The Saolta Hospitals Group has appointed a new board after remaining without one for a full year. The new board consists of 12 members – five women and seven men. The hospitals’ group board is responsible for developing effective corporate and clinical governance structures along with quality and safety systems for patient care. It also… Read more »

By Declan Tierney, Connacht Tribune THE New Inn Mummers Festival which has fostered talent for mega shows such as Riverdance and Lord of the Dance in the past – plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary in style when it takes place early next month. The Festival will be held on Saturday, January 6, when groups… Read more »

By Declan Tierney, Connacht Tribune Roise Lavery. The heartbroken parents of a seven year old Galway girl with Cerebral Palsy – this week awarded a €2.5 million interim payment from the HSE – said that they would give every penny back if only their daughter could walk and talk. Roise Lavery suffers from epilepsy and… Read more »

At the recent Clare River Harriers Athletic Club the attendees were informed that during 2017 the club was possibly the fastest growing athletic club in the country with adult membership up from 44 to 68 and juvenile memvership up from 0 to 168. All members associated with the Juvenile section were thanked for their tremendous… Read more »

This St. Stephen’s day the Claregalway Football Club are hosting a charity fundraiser to support he ‘Sineád McGovern healing Stage 4 cancer’ fund and breast cancer research. This is an ideal opportunity to get out of the house and get involved in a community effort as well as see the stars of Claregalway’s 2002 Intermediate… Read more »

By Siobhán Holliman, Tuam Herald   WORK on one of the largest regeneration and social housing projects in Connacht begins in Tuam early in the New Year. Construction workers will move on to the Gilmartin Road site in January and the €8 million project is expected to be complete within 18 months. The development will… Read more »

Michael KellyGrower BECAUSE OF THE colder and shorter days, the supply of fresh eggs from our flock of 10 laying hens has dwindled to almost nothing. From a summertime high of nearly an egg a day from each hen, we’re down to a handful of eggs some days and none at all on others. For… Read more »