Rural Life
The words in plaintive tones amidst the plaintive tones of country music in a country pub “That Michael Davitt wrote to me again today”
Sheep
The farmers of east Galway are getting five times the price for a kg of wool compared with their counterparts in Connemara.
Opinion
18 nights non-stop, rural dancing every night. A young man’s social footsteps in a time gone by. It was not New York, it was not London.
The Connemara sheep and wool trail is one of two new self-guided digital trails that highlight the story of sheep and wool in Connemara
A Galway farmer is working to attract new pupils to his children's national school so that a second teacher can be retained.
LAWPRO, is holding two community information meetings on water quality and water related issues in Furbo, and Letterfrack, Co. Galway.
Agri-Business
Údarás na Gaeltachta has announced the establishment of a pioneering new Food Hub at the Enterprise Centre in Ros Muc, Connemara, Co. Galway
Hobnail boots on a country road in Connemara. We counted the steps in sound. Each step sending a thud into the night time sky.
%%excerpt%% Having an Irish grandfather who was a farmer sparked a love of animals and the land in TamiJoy Miller who swopped farming in Washington for Connemara.
FORUM Connemara’s Dúlra Project is expanding its efforts to control the spread of rhododendron ponticum in the Connemara Bog Complex SAC
The Connemara Mayo Blackface Breeders Group will hold the largest-ever two-day sheep sale for a single breed at Maam Cross Mart this weekend.
Environment
A project to control the spread of the Rhododendron ponticum in the west of Ireland is set to be expanded in the coming weeks.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is planning to remove a deer fence which is located within Connemara National Park.
Locals in the Connemara area are being offered the opportunity to avail of free training in environmental management skills.
Did Connemara people invent the 'craic'? It might be a good topic of conversation while the populace at large is having the craic during the
A project to revive the Cladóir/Claddagh sheep breed is now in its third year and is still in the discovery phase, according to Sean Cadden.
Rhododendron is impacting ACRES scores being given to farmers, according to the facilitator of a project aiming to tackle the invasive plant.
Mairtín Ó Catháin reflects on memories of Christmas in rural Ireland Will I be able for...
The mountains soar to the sky, a majestic and rugged picture that might stir the imagination, but rural life can be isolating in Connemara.
A Galway based artist who spent her childhood on her grandparents' Connemara farm looks to animals for inspiration.
Efforts to try and prevent the granting of a prospecting licence in Connemara for gold and silver are well and truly underway this week.
Nearly 90% of the population of Connemara is opposed to an application by a mining company to seek a prospecting licence for gold and silver.
6,900 people have highlighted their disapproval of a prospecting licence in the Maam Valley and Corr na Móna areas of the Gaeltacht.
