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The Pullman Restaurant at Glenlo Abbey Hotel & Estate has just been awarded its first Michelin Star, announced this week at the Michelin Great Britain & Ireland awards ceremony held at the Dublin Convention Centre on Monday.

By 1848, construction of the railway line west from Dublin had reached Mullingar and the following year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer agreed to advance a loan of £500,000 towards extending the line to Galway. The board of the Midland and Great Western Railway entered into a contract with William Dargan to construct the entire length of line from Mullingar to Galway. Dargan’s success in building the Howth to Dublin railway had earned him a bonus of £300 and this he used to set himself up a a railway contractor.

“You don’t have to love it, but you have to pay it.” This was the message sent out clearly at Ballinasloe District Court when a number of defendants were prosecuted for failing to have a valid TV licence when an An Post inspector called.

On the morning of 27 July 2020, an ordinary working day in Galway turned into a remarkable testament to courage, instinct, and selfless service. The River Corrib, known as one of Ireland’s fastest-flowing and most unpredictable waterways, became the centre of a life-or-death struggle when a report came through of a man in distress near O’Brien’s Bridge.

A major multi-agency checkpoint on the M17 at Tuam brought drug-driving arrests, vehicle seizures and deportations on Tuesday, September 16, as Gardaí and partner agencies mounted a high-visibility operation targeting crime and road safety.

The latest survey of a selection of the country’s coastal and inland waterways has seen two Galway beaches singled out for criticism, with Dog’s Bay in particular landing close to the bottom of the league table due to ongoing problems with litter at the popular bathing spot.

Over the last four years, the business community in Galway has endeavoured to shine a light on water safety for World Drowning Prevention Day, a United Nations (UN)/World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative which takes place internationally on July 25 each year.

The positive role modelling and contribution to the betterment of life in their communities was highlighted last week when Galway Divisional Gardaí hosted the 5th Garda Youth Awards at Galway Racecourse.

Gardaí in Gort led a successful multi-agency search and rescue operation for a man aged in his late 60s who had become disorientated in a wooded area near Coole Park on Monday evening.

Two members of An Garda Síochána in Co. Galway have been awarded Commendations with Distinction following their rescue of a man from the water in Kinvara Two weeks ago.