A 79-year-old disabled grandmother who refused to enter into a court bond to stay out of any unauthorised zone at Shannon Airport has been sent to prison to serve a three-month sentence.

A packed courtroom yesterday erupted into laughter after ‘Guantanamo Granny’ — 79-year-old anti-war activist Margaretta Darcy — blew a whistle and declared: “I am a whistleblower”.

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

A widower has issued an emotional appeal for thieves to return an iPod which is a treasure trove of musical memories of happier times he spent with his wife, who lost her battle to cancer a year ago.

Fireside is the title of this work by Mark O’Neill at Dolan’s art auction in Galway next Tuesday (May 22).

A Latvian man who was convicted of raping a fellow national in a Dublin laneway over two years ago has been given a seven-year sentence by the Central Criminal Court.

A MAN was being questioned last night in Galway in connection with a sexual assault in the city early yesterday.

Two people have been arrested after a heroin seizure in Galway city centre.

FRANTIC efforts were being made last night to stop a haemorrhage of taxpayers’ money after the completion of the country’s biggest road project was stonewalled by the Supreme Court.