There are plenty of top quality matchups this weekend across football, hurling and camogie this weekend. After a demolition job against Derry last weekend, Donegal will face Tyrone in the Ulster Football Senior Championship on Sunday. Elsewhere in the Ulster Championship, Armagh takes on Down. Both the Leinster and Munster Hurling Senior Championship heat up […]
Tipperary have ended a long wait to win the Division 1A title of the Very Camogie League, beating Galway in the second of the day’s double-header at Croke Park. In the earlier game, Westmeath got on the winning side of Derry to claim the 2A title, 4-8 to 0-16. An impressive performance from Karin Blair […]
Bon Secours Hospital Galway has revealed plans for a €36.5 million expansion at its site in Renmore. The proposed plans would see the addition of two new theatres at the hospital, as well as four theatre recovery bays and 14 surgical dayward bays. Endoscopy services will also be expanded to add a fourth endoscopy treatment […]
Soccer Sunday’s early Premier League game has gotten underway. Fourth placed Aston Villa are entertaining Tottenham. A win here for the visitors would see them go within two points of the automatic Champions League qualification spots. In an hour’s time West Ham host strugglers Burnley and Brighton welcome Nottingham Forest to the Amex. Then, at […]
A Galway-based lecturer is part of an international team of astronomers who have shed new light on a complex process of planet formation. Dr Christian Ginski, lecturer at the University of Galway, helped capture images of more than 80 young stars and discs of dust and gas where planets are forming. Researchers used the European […]
Kerry proved too much for Tyrone as they were 0-18 to 1-11 winners in the Division One clash in Killarney. Kerry made four changes from last weekend’s defeat to Dublin, and took a 0-11 to 0-6 lead into the break, with Seán O’Shea and David Clifford impressing. Kerry continued their momentum into the second half, […]
Galway picked up a much-needed win in the Allianz National Football League this afternoon. Cathal Sweeney’s second half goal just edged them ahead of Tyrone to finish with a 1-10 to 12 points victory. Galway dug out a one-point victory over Tyrone in Healy Park. However, there will be huge concern about a growing injury […]
There is two key games in the Premier League, while there is also sction from the Allianz Football League. Soccer Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder is urging his players not to get bogged down by the thought of their Premier League relegation battle. They’re bottom of the table – seven points from safety – ahead […]
Galway United have apologised after posting an image of a player holding a ‘Stop’ sign accompanied by the song ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’, despite him having been banned from driving for killing a father of two in a collision. Ed McCarthy was given a two-year suspended sentence and a seven-year driving ban after pleading guilty […]
The first round of the Allianze National Football League is hardly a solid sign of things to come later in the season, but this weekend’s action did throw up some interesting encounters. After Saturday’s seven fixtures, there were nine games on Sunday’s agenda. Up in Division One, Connacht rivals Galway and Mayo met at Pearse […]
Gaelic games National Football League The opening round of the Allianz National Football League continues this afternoon. There’s a repeat of last year’s Division 1 final at Pearse Stadium as Galway host Mayo from 1.45pm. Later on Tyrone and Roscommon meet in Omagh from 3.45pm. There’s also a 1.45pm start in the Division 2 clash […]
After six months without inter-county action, the Allianz Football League gets back underway this weekend, with a fit again Damien Comer set to line out for Galway. Padraig Joyce’s side get their season underway against rivals Mayo in Salthill, a repeat of the fixture which ended their championship. The sides met three times last season, […]