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Tony King has been elected chairman at the Claregalway Ladies GAA anual general meeting.

Alanna Lally was the well-deserved winner of Athletics Ireland’s Tailteann Schools Award at the annual national awards ceremony in Dublin recently.

When PJ and Maura Grealish and their family bought the Kings Head a quarter of a century ago, one of the first things they did was light a fire in the famous 1612 fireplace. Unaware that the chimney needed cleaning the place soon filled up with thick smoke from the turfy fire.

Celine King of Galway Kettlebells has won gold at the World Kettlebell Championships in Hamburg, Germany, on Sunday.

The family of a nine-year-old girl fighting a rare form of cancer will meet experts in the UK this weekend to discuss ways of improving her chances of recovery.

People might think Castlebar man Brian McCaffrey is a little tutti frutti when they see him sprinting around Clontarf, Dublin, in his blue suede shoes next weekend, but it is all for a very good cause.

There is less than six weeks left for investors to avail of the Government’s tax incentive where property purchased before the end of the year and held for seven years will be exempt from capital gains tax, which is currently 33 per cent.

It was not the bank collapse of 2008, the implosion of the economy, the unforgivable bank guarantee, nor four years of harsh austerity measures which forced the Irish people on to the streets in protest.

As the guerrilla war attacks by the Irish Volunteers on the RIC began to escalate in 1919, the British government recruited World War I veterans as a complementary force to the RIC. It advertised for men willing “to face a tough and dangerous task”. These were the Black and Tans. A further campaign was launched to recruit former army officers who were specifically formed into counter insurgency units known as the Auxiliaries or ‘The Auxies’. They wore distinctive ‘Tam O’Shanter’ caps. One of these units, D Company, was stationed in Lenaboy Castle and in ‘The Retreat’ in Salthill.