The SKODA Tour de Conamara 2013 will be held on Saturday 25th May 2013 in Clifden, Connemara. The event offers participants the choice of 140km or 80km routes and will travel through some of the finest...
Read More →The race will take the format of having 3 disciplines; trail/mountain running (walking and jogging also accepted!), kayaking and cycling. The Connemara Adventure Challenge is approx 31km in total and it is open to racers...
Read More →1-2 day Workshops in Pottery, Screenprinting & Glass Fusing with Lol McClean, Shepherds Hut Craft Studio/Shop Lol, is a mixed media artist who has been living and working on Inishbofin for the last 10 years....
Read More →Nicholas Kats, a naturopathic doctor from Connemara and the owner of “Teddy,” a 39-foot steel ketch. In 2012, after several months of planning and anxiety, and hundreds of e-mails, Nick and his crew decided to...
Read More →www.odowdsseafoodbar.com O’Dowds Seafood Bar, Restaurant and Cafe is located in the center of Roundstone village overlooking the harbour with panoramic views over Roundstone Bay & the Twelve Bens. It has been run by the O’Dowd...
Read More →Based in Connemara, Cliodhna Prendergast heads up Breaking Eggs, an online campaign to bring food and cooking to the next generation in a healthy, fun and informative way. It provides a platform for parents to spend...
Read More →Courtesy of Kevin Griffin. About This Film This is a small film showing the moving of cows from the mainland to a nearby island.The Bourke family have been swimming the cows for hundreds of years....
Read More →RTE’s Nationwide recently featured Connemara based artist Deborah Watkins in their programme. Here’s a clip from the programme above that aired last month. It features Deborah’s work and her studio and also the Lavelle Art...
Read More →Hosts of the Year 2013 | Paddy & Julia Foyle, The Quay House, Clifden, Co Galway. Every time a visitor satisfaction survey is published the results are the same, with Ireland’s wonderful scenery (still impressive,...
Read More →Clifden wins Pride Of Place For the first time ever, Clifden won a major national award. The Galway County Council nominated Clifden as a potential winner for a Pride of Place award. Described by the...
Read More →Now that this site connemara.net has been successfully redeveloped by Noel Mannion, I thought I’d write about what our plans are on connemara.net, and what’s going on with the old site, some of which is...
Read More →In 2006 I was invited to attend a press conference at Galway County Buildings held by the then Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey T.D. whose department was announcing that Clifden, as part of a national...
Read More →iPad owners take note: after 3 months of development, the first app for Connemara, simply called ‘Connemara’, is now available to download for free from Apple’s App Store. The team behind the app, is Clifden-based...
Read More →[Connemara] was inhabited by a race of people, wild, as its Mountains, whose principal occupation was smuggling, about that time I undertook the difficult task of improving the lands and civilising the people, for which...
Read More →Welcome For the past 2 months we have been busy redeveloping connemara.net. The aim of the site is simple; to better serve the needs of you, the visitor. Whether you are here already or indeed,...
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