Defiant turfcutters have been warned that they are breaking Irish and European law by working on protected bogs and have been urged to accept compensation packages.

Turf cutters in Ireland have staged protests against a European law barring them from digging protected boglands to obtain fuel.

Results, teams and scorers from this afternoon's league action.

MICKY Donnelly’s new exhibition at Triskel Christchuch — Notes on a Minor Scale — has its roots in a concert he attended at the venue last year.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in an enlargement of time application brought by a Galway man who was jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin for possessing explosives and a gun.

A Galway man has been jailed for five years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for possessing explosives and a gun.

A Co Galway man pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today to possession of explosives and a gun last January.

IN-FORM John ‘Shark’ Hanlon completed his second double in a week when Streets Of Newyork and Ardglen triumphed at Ballinrobe last evening.

A Co Galway man arrested during garda investigations into dissident terrorist activity was freed on bail by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A 47-year-old man arrested in January following garda investigations into dissident terrorist activity in Co Galway has been released on bail at the Special Criminal Court.

Two men arrested last week during garda investigations into dissident terrorist activity in Co Galway were charged at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today with explosives and firearms offences.

A MAJOR investigation is under way after dissident republicans were caught with over 120kg of commercial explosives — enough, say gardaí, to “blow up a huge building.”

Gardaí are today questioning three people after finding guns and explosives in Co Galway.

Three people have been arrested after the discovery of explosive material and guns in Co. Galway.

By Jean Lombard

A woman is dead following a road accident in Co Galway.

KANTURK kept their hopes of a place in the play-offs for the Heineken Munster Junior League title alive with a deserved 24-7 victory over St Mary’s at Corbally.

The growth of retirement villages will allow more older people to stay independent, it was claimed today.

WHOOOHOO Yeaaahey. It’s a roar as grating to me as nails on a blackboard or aeroboard scraped along a wall.

IRISH under-21 captain John Lyne is out of Ireland’s World Cup quest in England this week.