What a difference a year makes.

“The abuse the officers have got on social media in the last three months is not acceptable.”

Galway GAA has to move into the 21st century, according to Mick Culhane, who will contest the chairmanship of the Galway county board next Monday.

Galway GAA chairman Pat Kearney is to be challenged for the position by businessman Mick Culhane as a turbulent year for the Tribesmen looks set to end with a battle for the top position in the county.

As the Galway senior hurlers met last night to discuss recent developments in the search for a new manager, Kevin Lally and Jeff Lynskey are among the names being linked with the vacancy.

Former Galway star Peter Finnerty has endorsed U20 manager Jeff Lynskey to succeed Micheál Donoghue as county manager.

Galway’s hurling managerial crisis shows no signs of abating as the hurling board have asked officials to approach Francis Forde and Noel Larkin to reconsider their decisions to step away from the managerial appointment process.

Galway GAA chiefs are coming under pressure to grant a forensic investigation into the county board’s finances.

From having three candidates for the senior hurling manager’s position last week, Galway GAA may have none by this weekend after Tony Ward removed himself from the race.

Galway GAA chairman Pat Kearney has said they will meet main sponsors Supermac’s in the coming days to deal with any queries about how their money has been spent but he said they have nothing to hide.

The Galway players will not have a “direct say” in the appointment of Micheál Donoghue’s successor, county board chairman Pat Kearney has made clear.

Despite having only agreed a new two-year extension in April, Micheál Donoghue last night confirmed his departure as Galway senior hurling manager.

Galway hurling manager Micheál Donoghue has been given a two-year contract extension and is set to lead the Tribesmen in 2020 as they bid to bounce back from their earliest championship exit in over half a century.

The management committee of the Galway County Board has been criticised for failing to complete an internal finance review midway through 2017 amid ongoing rancour over the finances of the GAA in the county.

Current and former senior Galway GAA officials are bracing themselves for the release of a potentially explosive internal audit into the finances of the county board.

For Pearse Stadium and Cusack Park, the wait is over.

An internal audit is under way into the accounts of the Galway County Board after concerns were raised at a recent meeting.

An internal audit is under way into the accounts of the Galway County Board after concerns were raised at a recent meeting.

A breakthrough is expected this week in the impasse which has held up the Galway SHC championship in a row over the eligibility of a player

A busy corner of Limerick City is transformed into a space of quiet reflection and prayer during Christmas as people converge to remember absent loved ones.

Tougher sentences should be imposed on garda killers, the widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe has said.

Monaghan’s Sam Moffett came out on top against younger brother Josh at the Clonmel-based Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally.

Developers are anxious to get in on a likely €100m public private-partnership project to reshape Limerick city centre.

Suneil Sharma is a businessman not known to the wider Limerick public. While Limerick has been very good to Mr Sharma, some, specifically Limerick City and County Council, Limerick Chamber of Commerce and the Limerick Business Association are beginning to question if Mr Sharma will be as good for Limerick.

The biggest 10-year real estate project in a city centre, outside of Dublin, was given the go-ahead in Limerick yesterday.

The battle to become Galway senior hurling manager next season has been cut to a two-horse race between current manager Anthony Cunningham and his former selector and coach Mattie Kenny.

Tipperary will fall further behind All-Ireland senior hurling champions Clare and their other major rivals unless levels of discipline, workrate and intensity improve.

Heart-felt tributes have been paid to a young GAA star following his tragic death on Wednesday.

Mary Stratford’s first crime investigation was a traffic accident.

Joe Byrne - Galway Hurling Board chairman

A BRAND new start.

THE chairman of the Galway hurling board has dismissed suggestions the Tribesmen have been in touch with a number of potential managers from outside the county to take over from John McIntyre.

JOHN McINTYRE’S fate as Galway manager will be decided by the three primary officers of the county’s hurling board and not by the high-profile group which has been put together to carry out a detailed investigation into why they are not successful.

THE chief executive of Limerick Chamber of Commerce warned that as many as 15,000 jobs in the mid-west would be at risk if the Dell plant closed.

LIMERICK City Council have agreed to give the go-ahead for a massive €350 million city centre retail complex, which will be known as the Opera Centre.

Marks & Spencer could be moving to more than one location in Limerick in two years time.

LIMERICK city centre has received another boost with confirmation yesterday that work on the massive Opera Centre development is to get underway in the new year.

Mourners began gathering today for the funeral of Evel Knievel, the motorcycle daredevil whose death-defying stunts and near fatal crashes made him an international icon and helped put his mining hometown on the map.

AS ONE of the IRA killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe walked free from Castlerea Prison yesterday, a spokesman for the family of the slain garda said Michael O’Neill should be doing another 30 years for murder.

THE widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be celebrating her grandson’s Holy Communion on the day the first of her husband’s killers is released from prison.

A VAST new shopping complex will draw an additional 100,000 people into Limerick city each week, members of Limerick City Council have been told by the developers.