Connacht Tribune

The Connacht Tribune, also known as An Curadh Connachtach, is a prominent newspaper primarily serving County Galway in Ireland. As the leading regional newspaper for the area, the Tribune Group publishes two editions each week: the Connacht Tribune on Thursdays and the Galway City Tribune on Fridays. These newspapers reach every district in Galway City and all towns and villages across the county. Since January 2007, the weekly readership has exceeded 150,000.

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Galway pizza trailer is making dough – and winning prizes - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

5 days ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

A pizza trailer business in Galway East set up in the depths of the pandemic lockdown has landed a major national restaurant award. Ugly Doughlicious – or Ugly D’s – trades at Yeats Lodge in Peterswell Friday to Sunday, and on Saturday mornings at the Ardrahan Farmers Market. Selling DIY at home pizza kits as well as pizzas cooked in a wood fired oven in the trailer, the business has proved popular with lovers of the Italian staple since it set up.
Permission granted for art store and book shop in derelict Athenry premises

6 days ago | connachttribune.ie | Declan Tierney

A grocery store in the heart of Athenry which has been closed for 20 years is now all set for a new lease of life. The former grocery will be transformed into an art and book shop – a move that has been widely welcomed in the town. Galway East TD Louis O’Hara was among those to welcome the granting of planning permission on the property, formerly known as Fahy’s Market and located at North Gate Street.
Galway hurlers catching fire at just the right time

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre

Galway 0-29Dublin 3-15HOLD your horses: maybe, the outcome of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship isn’t a done deal after all. For Galway are storming up the tracks, as underlined by this statement championship victory over Dublin – a first on opposition soil – at Parnell Park on Sunday in a de-facto Leinster semi-final.
Doran builds musical world close to home

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Cian O'Connell

Groove TubeMullingar singer/songwriter Peter Doran has been penning songs for several decades, but his latest release is a product of a creative comfort he hadn’t previously been afforded. Pieced together in a custom-built studio inside a 200-year-old farmhouse in the midlands, Doran’s sixth album, All the World is Running on a Mystic Code, was released into the world last week. It is a study in worldbuilding, littered with characters and imagery from stories both personal and historic.
Government report concludes ring road won’t solve city’s traffic

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Stephen Corrigan

A new Government report has concluded that the proposed city ring road would not solve Galway’s traffic woes – leading to calls to ‘move on’ from the €1 billion project. The Department of Transport has published a report on ‘The Economic Cost of Congestion in Regional Cities’ and has determined that car traffic currently costs the city more than €35 million per annum and predicts that this will rise to €107 million by 2040 – when the ring road is operational.
€6bn cargo facility at former Galway Airport could create 6,000 jobs

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Francis Farragher

REPRESENTATIVES acting on behalf of an international property group are understood to have lobbied a number of Galway County Councillors over the potential sale of the former Galway Airport – revealing plans to develop the site as a multi-billion euro international cargo airport, employing over 6,000 people.
Galway can see danger in the Derry air

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | John McIntyre

DERRY haven’t won a competitive match all season and are in the last chance saloon against Galway at Celtic Park on Sunday (2pm). And that makes them highly dangerous opponents for the Tribesmen, especially after their blazing finish against All-Ireland champions Armagh at the weekend. Derry were 13 points down and only for spurning a heap of goal chances could have pulled off the most sensational of comebacks, losing by 2-21 to 2-17 in the end.
Appeal to free up funds to spend a penny in Ballinasloe

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Stephen Corrigan

Spending a penny on Ballinasloe’s public toilets is long overdue, a meeting of area councillors was told. Cllr Evelyn Parson (Ind) described the state of the toilet block at St Michael’s carpark in the town as “totally unsatisfactory” and reiterated previous calls for investment in an upgrade – and to make the toilets accessible to people with disabilities. “This has been a bugbear of mine since in came into the Council. “I know there has been funding sought from the Community Recognition Fund.
Cancellations on the rise at Galway hospitals

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Dara Bradley

Hospital-initiated cancellations of patients’ appointments increased at three of Galway’s public hospitals last year. Galway University Hospitals – UHG and Merlin Park – cancelled 6,882 patient appointments in 2024, up by 10% compared with the previous year when there were 6,163 hospital-initiated cancellations. Meanwhile, hospital-initiated cancellations were up by 9% at Portiuncula University Hospital in Ballinasloe last year – from 1,590 in 2023 to 1,746 in 2024.
Galway’s rents still hit record new highs

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

Average rents in Galway city were up 12.6% in the last year – the third highest hike in the country. The latest quarterly Daft.ie report for the first three months of the year shows that rents in County Galway rose by 5.7% to €1,659 – and in the city by a whopping 12.6% where renters now have to fork out an average of €2,304 for somewhere to live. That’s higher than the national average rent of €2,023, which is the first time ever the property website has recorded rental above €2,000.