They brought 66 balloons to Lucia Cleary’s grave yesterday — one for each month of her life.

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An Officer and a Gentleman, that was once how the eloquent Pat Fanning, former president of the GAA, described his former Mount Sion team-mate Vin Baston, and a fitting description it was, the popular and ever-courteous Baston having reached the rank of Commandant in the Irish Defence Forces before his untimely death in 1963 at the age of 44.

Andrew Browne wants to mark his Heineken Cup debut on Friday night by ousting the 2010 finalists Biarritz at the Sportsground.

The Galway West tally is 58% yes in favour of the Fiscal Treaty referendum, and 42% no.

Gardaí investigating a fatal collision between a pedestrian and a motorcyclist in Galway city have named the vicim as 73-year-old Tony Wheatley of Dun Na Mara in Renmore.

TWO constituencies were still undergoing recounts last night, with a third beginning this morning, as the wait goes on to see the full make-up of the next Dáil.

A PRIEST married his own son in Galway yesterday.

A jury at the inquest into the death of Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has recommended that no student should ever walk the line between Ceannt Station and Renmore in Galway city alone.

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

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 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.

DISABILITY groups and campaigners have criticised the long-delayed report into 33 years of child abuse at two Brothers of Charity centres in Galway.

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.

PREPARATIONS are being made for the return of the remains of murdered Swiss language student Manuela Riedo to her home country.

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

A LIMERICK-based medical company has been bought for an undisclosed sum by Alliance Medical, one of the largest providers of diagnostic scanning in Europe.

Rescuers searching for a woman seen falling from a bridge in Galway city this morning have recovered a body at Ballyloughan Beach in Renmore.

Gardaí in Galway have arrested two men following an ecstasy and cannabis seizure in the city last night.

TEACHERS and parents have given a guarded welcome to a plan backed by Justice Minister Michael McDowell to develop school-based childcare.

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

TERMINALLY-ill patients in Galway still have to travel to other counties, while beds in the local hospice remain empty.

TERMINALLY-ILL cancer patients in Galway are being forced to travel to Cork and Dublin for care because a local hospice has refused to take new clients following an alleged drugs mix-up.