I’m up early this morning — fierce early. The smugness is overwhelming. That’s not a surprise — the world attaches a moral value to early-rising. The early bird catches the worm; early to bed and early to rise leads to health, wealth and wisdom. By contrast, late is only better than never.

My previous experience of Galway went a little like this: pub, pub, pub, pub, pub, pub, Supermac’s, bed.

KEITH RICHARDS was somewhere around Oughterard, on the edge of Lough Corrib, when the craving began to take hold.

IF YOU still need proof that Christmas is now a fully-fledged season — as opposed to a single day, or even several days, of festive fun — you’ll find it in Eyre Square.

A number of events are taking place in Galway today to remember murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo on the third anniversary of her death.

If previous convictions were taken into account and Barry denied bail, Manuela might still be alive, writes Jennifer Hough.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a young French woman at knife point in 2007.

THE Galway man who murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo has pleaded guilty to raping a French tourist.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has now pleaded guilty to raping a French woman in 2007.

The inquest into the death of Swiss student Manuela Riedo is due to get underway in Galway today.

The family of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo have set up a foundation for victims of rape and sexual assault across Europe.

A Galway man has been jailed for life for the murder of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007.

The jury at the trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 has been sent home for the night.

A GALWAY man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that her death was “an accident”.

A Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that her death was “an accident”.

THE man accused of murdering Swiss student Manuela Riedo in October 2007 sold Ms Riedo’s mobile phone to his sister’s boyfriend nine days after the killing, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The Central Criminal Court has heard that the DNA of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in October 2007 was found inside a condom that had been found at the scene of her death.

THE trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area, where her body was found, on the night of her murder.

The trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area on the night of her alleged murder.

A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard that Swiss teenager Manuelo Riedo died from strangulation.

THE trial of a man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo in Galway in 2007 has heard that his DNA was found in a used condom near her body.

A popular Swiss student was strangled to death just two days after she arrived in Ireland to learn English, a court heard today.

A man who today denied murdering a teenage Swiss student will go on trial tomorrow.

The parents of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo have visited the scene where their daughter was killed in Galway last year.

FOR the weekend birder, the peripatetic birder (the travelling salesman, say) or the twitcher, Finding Birds in Ireland, The Complete Guide, by Dempsey and O’Clery is the book to buy.

STUDENT leaders and public representatives in Galway are to begin a campaign to make safe the isolated walkway where Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo was murdered.

A Swiss student found murdered in inner-city scrubland was suffocated to death, it was revealed today.

Seasonal goodies: British Queens are now in season. The best I’ve had this year have come from Mary and Patrick Walsh.