Thursday morning finds Alan Mulholland pulling up the shutters of one of his family’s 18 bookmaking shops.

GALWAY is throwing a party like only it can this week and local election candidates are capitalising on the good mood across town hosting the Volvo Ocean Race.

IN normal circumstances, Sizing Europe would be a particularly confident choice to land the Grade 1 Golf Centre December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown this afternoon.

FINE GAEL will make an approach to former GAA president Sean Kelly to stand as a candidate shortly after its Árd Fheis next weekend.

IT must be the miracle of Cheltenham that, in sub-zero conditions, snow showers and the wickedest of winds, the only thing not frozen were Irish bank accounts.

HOUSEHOLDERS who had to boil water for drinking for the past 40 days have now been advised the local supply is now safe to drink.

DANA was given a slim hope of making it to a presidential election when Galway City Council backed her yesterday after the three Fine Gael members broke ranks to vote for her.

GALWAY CITY is unusual. There are the PDs riding high in the national polls with a vertigo-inducing 3% or 4%.

GALWAY’S dog owners have got to stop treating Salthill’s promenade as a toilet for their pets as it is creating a health hazard, says former mayor Cllr John Mulholland.

THE small Galway hurling club of Kilnadeema/Leitrim are within an hour of a €50,000 pay day.

ONE of the country's most glamorous race meeting will not be cut short, as the poor weather wreaks havoc on some race tracks.