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The late Billy Naughton, College Road, said he spluttered into his cup of tea, when he instantly recognised the upper-class, nasal drawl, of William Joyce reporting continuous Nazi victories on Radio Hamburg, Reichsrundfunk, during its English-language broadcast in October 1939. He was ridiculed as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ and was the butt of Musical Hall jokes, yet he was listened to and despised for his clever mix of fact and lies.

Mitchell Henry’s final days in Kylemore were sad ones. His adored wife Margaret had died at 45 years-of-age, and rested in a simple brick mausoleum in the grounds of his palatial Kylemore Castle. His political life, into which he put a great deal of personal effort, advocating on behalf of all Irish tenants the rights for them to own their own land, was out manoeuvred by Charles Stewart Parnell and the Land League. Henry described the Land League methods as ‘dishonest, demoralising and unchristian’. He probably was not surprised to lose his Galway seat in the general election of 1885. He blamed ‘Parnalite intimidation’.

A Midlands couple exchanged wedding vows during the recent August bank holiday weekend, grateful for their shared good health, made possible by the groom donating a kidney to his bride two years ago.

Earl September usually means back-to-school preparations for parents, children, and teachers alike with preparations for the new school year meaning the organisation of books, uniforms, school lunches, and much more.

As part of NUI Galway’s Autumn Conferring, which saw more than 1,700 graduates return to campus, the University recognised and celebrated one of the oldest graduates to have attended a conferring ceremony.

As part of NUI Galway’s Autumn Conferring, which saw more than 1,700 graduates return to campus, the University today recognised and celebrated one of the oldest graduates to have attended a conferring ceremony.

Celebrations were getting under way in Rosemount village yesterday to mark local woman Rachel Duffy’s historic win at the 2022 Rose of Tralee on Tuesday night. Ms Duffy is the first Westmeath Rose to win the competition in its 63-year history.

It may be a cliché but the old adage that the happiest days of our lives were the ones we spent at school would be true for most people. When we were in school, we probably thought that it was all lies, but later we gradually realised it was true. Life changes with time but memories of our school days remain the same all the time, days of laughter, smiles, great friendships, games in the school yard, no worries of bills, taxes or finances, desks with flip-tops and inkwells in the middle, heavy school bags, the glantóir, headline copies, the poems we learned, the sheer joy of the last day before the holidays, the imaginative excuses for being late … “The two wheels fell off me bicycle, sir”.

Sponsored by Athlone Towncentre, Sarah McDermott from Newbridge, Co Kildare, was crowned winner of ‘Friday’s Most Stylish’ at this year’s Galway Race Summer Festival which concluded on Sunday last.

Revitalised by being back in-person again, the Galway Film Fleadh came to a stunning end on Sunday night with an awards ceremony held before the closing film, the Ukrainian-made Carol of the Bells.