Search Results for 'Colman'
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Garrycastle GAA enhance club infrastructure with formal opening of purpose built gym
Garrycastle GAA has enhanced its club infrastructure with the recent opening of a purpose built gym.
Remembering Maeliosa Stafford
Maelíosa Stafford was an actor, director, producer, and educator and one of the most influential, successful, innovative, and charismatic of Galway artists.
O’Toole relishing professional boxing
“I'm really satisfied, the biggest thing when you turn pro in boxing is trying to keep busy,” Thomas O’Toole says about winning his first four professional fights since September.
O’Toole relishing professional boxing
“I'm really satisfied, the biggest thing when you turn pro in boxing is trying to keep busy,” Thomas O’Toole says about winning his first four professional fights since September.
McDonagh’s, a Galway treasure
Patrick McDonagh from Galway was born in 1817 and married Sarah Cooney. They had a son Michael who married Peggy Wallace in 1870, and they in turn had a son Colman in 1875. He had a habit of whispering in people's ears and so became known as ‘Cogar’. In 1902, he moved from Carraroe to Galway and rented stores at the back of the Spanish Arch from Peter Greene. From there, he began to sell coal, carrying it on a horse and cart.
