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Giggling Galway broadcaster with a sharp edge

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There are three Sarah McInerneys: the gregarious Drivetime radio presenter with a hearty laugh, the tough TV interviewer regularly skewering politicians, and – surprisingly – the shy, Galway-accented woman who considers herself a country girl at heart.

‘If I worried too much, I wouldn’t be able to do this job properly,’

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It’s the voice that people recognise first. When we commence our chat, she is grappling with a coffee machine that threatens to drown out our conversation. And then, there is the voice that has kept millions of crime podcast fans enthralled during lockdown, at a time when gangland crime proved box office and when the misdemeanours of an elite group of criminals, here at home and abroad, became household names.

City native makes fiction debut with stunning rural noir whodunnit

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It was a sort of homecoming for Galway-native writer Michelle McDonagh last week as she savoured the atmosphere of Cuirt the week in which her debut novel was launched in her native city.

Áine Lally appointed as TG4’s Communications Manager

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TG4 has announced that Áine Lally has been appointed as the broadcaster’s new Communications Manager. Áine, who has over twenty years experience as a broadcast journalist and newscaster with Nuacht TG4/RTÉ, began her television career in the 1990s in TG4’s Communications Department working with former Deputy Chief Executive Pádraic Ó Ciardha.

Gaelic football and the press

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If recent press reporting tells us anything about the state of Gaelic Football, it is that in the 138 years since the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), none of the passion first witnessed and recorded all that time ago has receded. Games this summer exhibited all the magic, drama, and controversy first captured in reports of meetings between Mayo clubs such as Belcarra, Ballyglass, Cornfield, Carnacon, and Towerhill in the 1880s.

The Great Gathering of Donkeys – Castlebar Workhouse, 1848

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On the morning of 30 June 1848, word spread quickly of a large movement of people from the direction of Balla towards Castlebar. The newspapermen who went to view the procession recorded that numerous donkeys accompanied the multitude.

Athlone native pens Manchester United memories in latest publication

Curraghboy native John Scally has penned a new book entitled ‘Simply Red: The Funny Book of Manchester United’.

‘Connemaras’ struggled to survive on the mid-west plains of Minnesota

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The 309 Connemara emigrants, selected by their local clergy as suitable for a new life in America, arrived at Boston June 14 1880, 11 days after departure from Galway Bay on the SS Austrian, an Allen Line ship. The settling of ‘The Connemaras’, as they became known, was a new venture prompted by a Liverpool priest, Fr Patrick Nugent renowned for his ‘philantropic and truly patriotic exertions to alleviate the social conditions of his fellow countrymen in England’; and Archbishop John Ireland, of St Paul, Minnesota, who was already settling thousands of Irish Catholics who were trapped in the ghettoes of New York and elsewhere, on rich prairie lands.

Galway’s ‘Titanic’ burst into flames in the Atlantic

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On Saturday October 6 1860 approximately one hundred miles out from Boston, the PS Connaught, one of the biggest and most spectacular transatlantic ships of its day, hit a storm, and sprung a leak. As water poured into the engine room, an auxiliary coal-fired engine was started which sparked a fire which rapidly spread out of control. Flames and smoke forced the 591 passengers and crew on to the top deck.

June 1921 - Britain continues to deny policy of reprisal killings and house burnings in Galway

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The election, on May 24 1921 in the six counties of what was to become Northern Ireland, resulted in the Unionist Party winning 40 of the 52 seats. Catholics in the six counties would now be forced to stare down the barrel of partition and sectarianism as a new order was set in place.

 

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