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For 80 years, the Standún name has been woven into the fabric of Connemara.

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Drivers across Galway city are being warned to expect significant traffic disruption over the coming months as major water infrastructure works are carried out in the east of the city.

Last week thousands of students across the nation received their Leaving Certificate results. Just yesterday, Round One CAO offers were released. For every student who got the course they wanted, there was another checking their account and feeling disappointed.

The good news for residents from Wellpark to the Docks is that a more reliable water supply is on its way, but the bad news for commuters is road works throughout the school term until past Christmas.

For a century and a half, policymakers and preachers have tried to break Ireland’s matriarchal spine. First came colonial statutes that stripped women of ancient Brehon era property rights; then, after Independence, a clerical regime insisted a woman’s duty began and ended inside four walls and that maxim even made its way into the Constitution. Both forces notched victories on paper. Yet the lived chain of female authority, mother to daughter, sister to sister never snapped. I know, because that chain carried me out of Bessborough Mother-and-Baby Home and set me, my child, and several generations of my family back on our feet.

John O’Halloran is a part-time farmer in Clifden where he runs Droimeann cattle alongside Connemara ponies. An archaeologist and historian by profession, he has a strong interest in Ireland’s native breeds and now helps conserve Droimeann cattle. He is a board member of the Droimeann Cattle Society and plays a significant role in rebuilding and protecting the breed.

He begins with six shows in Westmeath, then six in Leitrim before drifting down to Limerick and then up to Mayo and back to Galway again for the Christmas, and then on and on and on and on till the wheels fall off and burn, according to himself.

It’s Christmas in Sligo, and the Cosgroves have gathered in the good room, full of bad moods and holiday décor.