The developer seeking a contract to provide a centre for asylum seekers in Oughterard, Co Galway, has denied making “intimidating” comments to a delegation of residents last week.

Gardaí say a man fell to the ground after “colliding with a vehicle” near the site of the Connemara Gateway Hotel.

Politicians from all parties in Galway West have expressed opposition to a gold and silver mining bid in protected Connemara habitats.

Comhar na nOileán Teo is to benefit from €70,000 worth of Governmental funding.

The country’s top official for public expenditure has been sharply criticised for snubbing a request to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee which is investigating cost overruns at the National Children’s Hospital.

Josepha Madigan has not taken any Irish classes since becoming Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht almost a year ago.

It would take two and a half hours to walk along the length of the illegal netting seized by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) last year.

As a member of An Garda Síochána, Maurice McCabe was entitled to know he was being accused of these offences, writes Michael Clifford

The abandonment of rural Ireland dominated the weekly meeting of the Fine Gael parliamentary party last night.

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Údarás na Gaeltachta is holding crisis meetings with the directors of a plastics company that was launched by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and then jobs minister Richard Bruton in December 2014.

Wily Kevin Walsh can rightly take the plaudits for this win, writes Ray Silke.

Appointed Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine on May 6, Michael Creed TD says this Government’s commitment to Rural Ireland will be a collective effort across Cabinet.

British exploration firm Europa Oil and Gas is hopeful of landing a development partner for licences it holds off the Irish coast before the end of the year.

Galway 0-15 Meath 1-12: You can only imagine the scale of the inquests in Meath this morning had Mick O’Dowd’s men not rescued a draw with a scramble of points in the closing stages of this bizarre game at a cold, wet Salthill.

The one certainty is that Eamon O’Cuiv’s seat could be the safest in Ireland — even though politicians hate hearing that.

Galway 1-9 Tyrone 1-11: Damien Comer’s goal three minutes from time almost inspired Galway to an unlikely comeback win at Pearse Stadium, but ultimately poor finishing cost the Tribesmen dearly.

Mayo 1-12 Galway 0-13: Andrew Farrell’s goal 10 minutes from the break helped Mayo to their first Connacht junior football title since 2012.

Down 1-17, Galway 1-16: Kevin Walsh was left regretting Galway’s wastefulness as Down came with a late charge to snatch a valuable win which moved them to the top of Div 2 in the Allianz Football League.

Crime gangs are carving out a new money-making racket in the illegal supply of bottled gas.

A specialist Garda agency has launched a nationwide operation to crack down on the booming trade in illicit cigarettes in dodgy markets and rogue ethnic shops.

Willie Mullins’ Indevan can complete a four-timer in the Easyfix Rubber Products Novice Hurdle at Galway this evening.

A NEW Leinster House “lust list” has been topped by Fine Gael TD Sean Kyne and Sinn Féin’s Sandra McLellan.

A man jailed for killing two young jockeys in an arson attack in England more than a year ago has had his conviction upheld.

THE 166th and last candidate to be elected to the new Dáil finally secured his seat after 67 hours of counting yesterday morning — and said he couldn’t wait to get into Leinster House.

A LABOURER has been told that he must serve at least seven and a half years in prison for killing two promising young jockeys who died when he torched a flat in a drunken revenge attack.

A labourer was told today that he must serve at least seven and a half years in prison for killing two promising young jockeys who died when he torched a flat in a drunken revenge attack.

A labourer will be sentenced today for killing two promising young jockeys when he torched a block of flats in a drunken revenge attack.

GALWAY apprentice jockey Jamie Kyne, who died in a fire started deliberately in Yorkshire a year ago, will be remembered this afternoon at Galway Races with a race in his honour.

A labourer was today found guilty of killing two promising young jockeys when he torched a block of flats in a drunken revenge attack.

The jury in the trial of a labourer accused of murdering two young jockeys by setting light to a block of flats was sent out to consider its verdicts for a second day today.

The jury in the trial of a labourer accused of murdering two young jockeys by setting light to a block of flats was sent out to consider its verdicts for a second day today.

Lawyers for a man accused of killing two young jockeys in a flat fire told a jury today the strength of the evidence against him “is not something you would hang an old coat on, let alone convict a man for the offence of murder”.

A blaze at a block of flats in which Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson died was either started deliberately or there was a catastrophic failure of the alarm system, a fire investigation expert told a jury in England today.

A man accused of killing two young jockeys, one of them Irish, by setting fire to the block of flats in which they were sleeping declined to give evidence at his trial today.

The owner of a block of flats where two young jockeys, one of them Irish, died in a fire told a jury today how the man accused of starting the blaze was “making life difficult” for firefighters as they fought the flames.

A man accused of starting a fire which killed two young jockeys, one of them Irish, was walking around barefoot and obviously drunk after the alarm was raised, a witness told a jury today.

A SURVIVOR of a blaze which killed young Galway jockey Jamie Kyne and Scottish jockey Jan Wilson told a jury the man accused of starting the fire was pacing up and down before firefighters arrived, saying: “Someone’s done this."

An apprentice jockey who survived a fire which killed two of his colleagues, one of them Irish, told a British jury today that one of the victims was “calling for help” moments before he plunged to safety from a window.

The trial of a man accused of murdering two young jockeys who died in a fire at a flat is due to start today.

A man accused of murdering two young jockeys who died in a fire at a flat in the UK was told today he could face further charges.