Mary O Connor
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Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays
- Art & Design
- July 23, 2019, 05:00
Galway International Arts Festival Festival Gallery, William St, and other venues, Galway Until July 28th giaf.ie **** It’s become the norm at the(...)

Sports clubs accused of being too Irish-born and unwelcoming to poorer people
- Social Affairs
- May 20, 2019, 00:01
Irish sports clubs are too Irish-born* and too unwelcoming to people with disabilities, older people and people from poorer backgrounds, a major confe(...)

Sport Ireland to appoint new full-time Women in Sport Lead position
- Other Sports
- March 7, 2019, 14:19
A permanent Women in Sport Lead and the rewarding of sporting bodies who achieve greater gender diversity at board level are the main elements of Spor(...)

Coombe hospital’s premature ‘graduates’ reunite
- Social Affairs
- November 18, 2018, 19:04
About 200 “graduates” – once among the tiniest anywhere – gathered on Sunday for a reunion at the place they spent their first weeks fighting for life(...)

Extra €15m for projects outlined in new National Sports Policy
- Sport
- October 9, 2018, 21:09
Irish sporting bodies have welcomed the increased allocation for sport in Budget 2019, an additional €15 million to go towards various projects and in(...)

‘I could not eat while on Tamoxifen – it was a deal breaker’
- Health & Family
- June 7, 2016, 02:00
The fear of cancer returning was one of the biggest hurdles for Mary O’Connor to get through after she had recovered from her breast surgery and treat(...)

Rena Buckley and Briege Corkery the first among equals
- Gaelic Games
- December 18, 2015
There’s a story in Mary White’s book Relentless that begins with Rena Buckley driving through Macroom on a Saturday night in 2011. It’s just short of (...)

Widow of late playwright John B Keane laid to rest
- Social Affairs
- August 17, 2015, 22:14
The funeral has taken place in Listowel of Mary Keane, the widow of the late playwright John B Keane. Ms Keane, who was born Mary O’Connor, died on S(...)

Spring statement: Ministerial double act fails to raise a smile
- Politics
- April 29, 2015, 01:00
The Government has hit on an amazing new strategy for winning the election. Step one is to build up expectations for months about a mega new announ(...)

Poetry, swagger and a little trembling at Other Voices
- Gig Reviews
- December 7, 2013, 13:57
David Gray, who gives an extremely enlightening and at times poetic talk at Banter in Foxy John’s pub earlier in the evening with Jim Carroll, has pre(...)