Agriculture and food development authority Teagasc made a loss of almost €1m in 2011, after recording a surplus of €3.4m in 2010.

Gardaí in Galway are appealing for witnesses to a crash in Leenane in the early hours of this morning that claimed the life of a man.

THE stars strutted their stuff all through the weekend and, God love me, I cannot resist the linkage between the excitement of the red carpeted Oscars in Hollywood and the electric spills of the hurling and football productions on the green carpets of the Four Green Fields.

IT’S in one of the most beautiful locations in the West of Ireland and has enough land and is remote enough to be a perfect retreat.

Gardaí in Co Galway are investigating a crash at Leenane that claimed the life of a 37-year-old woman.

A woman has been killed in a crash in County Galway.

Rescue workers have located the body of a man who went missing after he fell on a mountain in Connemara.

A GRANDSTAND view of Lough Corrib and the Hill of Doon in one of Connemara’s most romantic, scenic and visited landscapes, along with shared ownership of a stone pier on the angling lake, comes with this country cottage.

A RADICAL cost-cutting plan that will include a voluntary early retirement scheme for 120 staff and the non-replacement of some 100 others who will retire over the next few years was agreed in principle by the Teagasc authority at a meeting in Carlow yesterday.

IN SEVEN days we will be given an opportunity denied to the vast majority of the European Union’s 500 million citizens.

The Delphi adventure centre in Co Galway is to create 60 new jobs in the area following a recent redevelopment.

IS IT Ennistymon or Ennistimon? Or should we forget the oppression and go back to Inis Díomáin?

THE Placenames Commission has washed its hands of responsibility for the erratic spelling of English-language locations around the country.

A new temporary bridge is due to open in Leenane, Co Galway, today following the collapse of the village's stone bridge during flooding a fortnight ago.

Galway County Council has opened a pedestrian bridge in Leenane following the collapse of the village's main bridge on Wednesday.

Officials will today begin to draw up plans to restore a century-old bridge washed away by a flash flood in Co Galway.

LOVED by movie-makers, painters and photographers, the ancient bridge at Leenane, swept away by flood waters yesterday, was more importantly a vital part of a busy tourist route.

The village immortalised in the film 'The Field' was thrown into chaos tonight as a flash flood washed away its century-old bridge.

Over 3,500 people are to take part in this years' Connemara International Marathon.

THE jungle drums have been at work since the For Sale sign went up in the last week on Leenane - something to do with the Woolhara address, perhaps?

THE family of a man missing from Britain for five months was relieved last night after he was found living rough on a mountain in Connemara.

The Mayo mountain rescue team was called out last night to help a woman who broke her ankle while walking on Mweelrea Mountain near Leenane.

A female walker was rescued from a Galway mountainside early this morning after she broke an ankle while hill walking.

Overnight accidents have claimed the lives of three men.