Connacht Tribune / City Tribune - News and information in Galway

By Ronan Judge
A Galway company suffered “significant and lasting” damage after it was the victim of an attempted €12,000 fraud by a former employee, a court has heard.
At Galway Circuit Court, Judge Brian O’Callaghan told Tracy Carty (29) she was at “serious, serious risk” of a custodial sentence after hearing of the impact her offending had had on Galway Bay Seafoods....

By Ronan Judge
A 43-year-old man charged with drink driving and dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to another man in Galway City, has been further adjourned.
Sean Whelan, with an address at apartment 5, Réaláin, Coast Road, Galway appeared at Galway District Court charged with four offences in total arising from his driving at Bóthar Na dTreabh on December 15, 2024....

Car sales continued to rise in Galway in January, the busiest month of the year for the industry.
A modest increase of 5% on last year’s figures, a little above the national average, saw the total number of new cars coming off the forecourts in the city and county rise to 1,600....

By Ronan Judge
A fight between a group of women at Christmas in a busy shopping centre in Galway City was “literally about nothing and should never have happened”, a court has been told.
Two of the woman involved in the incident, Mary Frances Maughan (32), with an address at 48 An Sean Bhile, Doughiska, and Pamela Clare McDonagh (27), with an address 23 Fána Glas, Ballybane, pleaded guilty to affray, contrary to section 16 of the Public...