As widely predicted, Anthony Cunningham was officially unveiled as the new Galway senior hurling manager tonight at a specially convened meeting of the county's Hurling Board.

REIGNING champions Portumna sealed a place in the quarter-finals of the Galway senior hurling championship when they defeated Kinvara by 2-22 to 1-10 in a repeat of the 2007 county final.

GALWAY’S excellence on the national minor hurling stage manifested itself once more in yesterday’s ESB All-Ireland MHC final.

A DISPUTE over a multi- million euro joint venture agreement to build and operate two electric power plants to provide power at peak times has reached the commercial court.

HUNDREDS of Gama employees from Dublin and Clare yesterday stepped up protests against the company by demonstrating outside the firm’s largest construction project in Galway.

Gama’s treatment of workers has backfired, Political Reporter Michael O’Farrell writes from Galway.

HUNDREDS of angry Gama workers are today planning to target the company’s largest construction project, a Galway power station being built for the ESB in Tynagh.

Turkish company Gama Construction has bought out the 40% stake in the proposed Tynagh Energy power station previously held by South African bank Investec.

A new provision known as "Fast Build" is being put in place by the Energy Regulator to cater for potential shortages in Ireland's electricity supply.

THE energy regulator Tom Reeves has selected two preferred bidders for contracts to build two new independent power generation plants.