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A woman in her late fifties who allegedly made off in a bread van and tore the side off it when she collided with a guardrail of the Ballinasloe AIB appealed to a judge at the local court to give her a chance.

A seven foot, bronze statue celebrating the mythical princess who drowned in the Corrib and gave her name to Galway, is languishing in a plywood crate, in a back yard, in Wicklow.

“I know now where Phoenix magazine got their ‘Bog Cuttings’ title from” a Judge quipped when a solicitor produced two sods of turf as evidence in a case involving a dispute over the quality of turf sold and a refusal to pay for it.

Offering a visitor experience like no other, Thoor Ballylee is regarded as a 14th-century towerhouse that was once the home of one of the greatest literary figures in Irish history, W.B. Yeats.

Each May Bank Holiday, as the hedgerows brighten and the Atlantic air softens along the coast of Kinvara, the village bursts into life with the sound of fiddles, flutes, and friendly conversation.

As part of AIB’s quarterly Fraud Trend series, AIB is warning customers about a new fake rental scam where criminals pose as landlords on legitimate letting websites and request small deposit payments to secure a property viewing.

And now Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell has used similar slurs against property speculators, sitting on buildings that can be lived in during a housing crisis, likening them to hoarding food during a famine.

If you're planning to make the leap into home ownership in Ireland, make sure you won't be stung by hidden add-on costs like conveyancing fees and stamp duty.

An external rodent survey of a private house near the city centre earlier this month has revealed the worst residential infestation one rat catcher has seen in 19 years, with around 50 normally nocturnal rodents recorded openly climbing up ivy in broad daylight, or along boundary walls, indicating more than 100 inside, and probably more.

When physio John Butler unlocked the door of a modest rented room in Galway in January 2001, he did so without a grand plan, a marketing budget, or the reassurance of a bank manager’s blessing. The rent was low. The equipment was basic. The future was uncertain. What he did have, though he may not have known it at the time, was resilience forged by hardship, hands trained by instinct and experience, and a belief—shared by a few crucial others—that honest work, done properly, would always find its way.