Two local residents have asked a High Court judge to allow them appeal his decision clearing the way for tech giant Apple to develop the first phase of a planned €850m data centre in Athenry, Co Galway.

The Government must learn from the delays in response to recent flooding in Donegal and put immediate supports in place, claim Fianna Fáil.

More than 50,000 supporters turned out across Galway to greet the All- Ireland hurling champions as they returned home, having won the senior and minor titles for the first time in the same year.

Rebel Redemptorist priest, Tony Flannery, has called for the papal nuncio to be removed from his post.

My little wood is pretty full now. In fact, there are parts of it where I should probably do a bit of thinning. Some of the most interesting and bio-diverse parts of a woodland are actually the spots where there are no trees. The woodland glade has an ecology of its own.

Sixty jobs are to be created in Co Galway through the establishment of a new headquarters, in Loughrea, for the UK and Ireland operations of Portuguese multinational Mota-Engil.

A Fine Gael councillor in Galway is suing RTÉ, alleging it sought to entrap him by having an undercover reporter allegedly meet and secretly record him while she posed as an agent for wind energy investors.

Larry Deeley was cutting ash trees to make hurleys when he died. It was the end of September 1978. 

Jim O’Malley is the author of Walking the Munster Blackwater, an account of his seven-day walk along the famed river. He’s from East Cork, between Killeagh and Youghal, and worked as a teacher in Cork, Dublin and Killorglin. He will read from his book at the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, Lismore, Co Waterford on June 16-19.

Spindle is a native plant, sometimes a shrub and sometimes a small tree, which is sparsely distributed on lime-rich soils and is a component of hedgerows in some parts of the country. 

Flood victims and farmers have reacted angrily after it emerged that government officials charged with tackling the flood crisis did not meet for up to six years.

Caretaker taoiseach Enda Kenny will try to freeze out Fianna Fáil by cutting deals with 22 opposition TDs and convincing Labour to abstain from the April 6 taoiseach nomination vote.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny failed to meet insurers to force them to compensate flood victims because he was “promoting” Ireland’s economic recovery while on expensive visits to Britain and Switzerland.

In the second of a five-part series, we visit Cappataggle, Co Galway, where the closure of the post office led one retired schoolteacher to go on hunger strike in protest

The newly-formed Independent Alliance which expects to have 20 candidates in place for the general election yesterday unveiled new hopefuls who have joined its ranks.

Services at maternity hospitals are set to be hit by further scandals because the sector is so under-staffed it would need 550 extra midwives just to reach international best practice guidelines.

An Post insists the controversial decision to close the post office in Cappataggle, Co Galway, stands and that it will shut down tomorrow.

A retired schoolteacher from east Galway has gone on hunger strike in an attempt to save his local post office.

Anti-establishment are now well placed to translate strong national support into major gains at the next general election, while Government parties face losses, says Adrian Kavanagh

Mental health services in Galway/Roscommon are operating under a 30-year-old national strategy and in some cases are akin to "mini-institutions".

All the predictions of a poll-topping performance by Fianna Fáil MEP candidate Brian Crowley are coming to pass at the Ireland South count centre in Nemo Rangers GAA club, outside Cork city.

Behold the birth of Ireland’s new future force, the PDs — the Politically Desperate.

For the McGrath family of New Inn, Galway, it was a weekend quite like no other.

Ever since assuming the role of general vice-president in 1993, Carmel Grealy is to be found in the same location at the Community Games year in, year out — sitting patiently behind the main desk at reception, lending a hand to whoever requires assistance.

Since 2008 Niall Corcoran has soldiered with the Dublin senior hurlers and after watching his native Galway take provincial honours last year, he was delighted to secure an historic Leinster SHC success with the Dubs yesterday.

In the play An Enemy of the People, one man stands for right, says Pádraic Killeen.

DESPITE being a bit of a lefty by Labour’s irredeemably bourgeoisie Chardonnay-socialist standards, when Colm Keaveney became party chairman it was always clear he would be less Chairman Mao, more Chairman Row, and so it has proved.

In the basement of a Yonkers pub, aspiring hurling coaches from the New York area gathered around coffee cups and notepads early last Saturday morning.

There’s always been an elitism in Galway hurling that influenced the way the county used to play.

Barnardos chief executive Fergus Finlay has described as "a childish excuse" comments from Bishop of Clonfert John Kirby that he previously regarded paedophilia as a "friendship that crossed a boundary line".

You can blame Malcolm McDonald.

THE spindle is one of my favourite native trees, though I admit that when it grows in the wild it’s often more of a shrub than a tree.

The Constituency Commission has recommended cutting the number of TDs in Leinster House by eight - from 166 to 158.