DERRYTRESK last night launched an appeal process ahead of Sunday week’s All-Ireland Club JFC final against Galway champions Clonbur after being slapped with a reported eight suspensions following their controversial semi-final win over Kerry’s Dromid Pearses in Portlaoise last month.

ALAN MULHOLLAND last night became Galway’s fourth senior football manager in as many years when he was confirmed as the new boss of the Tribesmen.

A FURTHER 45 people will soon be on the dole after a French-owned company in Galway announced it was cutting its workforce.

Long-time Galway forward Padraic Joyce is set to miss the start of the National Football League after being given a straight red card in yesterday's Connacht FBD League win over GMIT.

Frankie Dolan's long-awaited inter-county return failed to inspire Roscommon to victory in their Connacht FBD League clash with Mayo at Ballinlough this afternoon.

IT was July, probably around the mid to late 1970s. My mother piled us children into the car, drove down to the pier in An Spidéal in Galway to buy a few freshly caught salmon from the trawlers and half-deckers as they returned.

KERRY has been crowned the bathing capital of Ireland following the publication of the prestigious Blue Flag awards.

I BELIEVE that those proposing EU enlargement will result in less foreign direct investment into Ireland are misguided.