Connacht Tribune Archives – Caricatures by Allan Cavanagh

Double Vision The End

January 3, 2020 by Allan

After 27 years of writing, Charlie has called it a day for Double Vision. The column has been part of my life in one way or another since 2003, and since 2018 I had once again been contributing a weekly cartoon for Charlie’s blog version of the column. “After 27 years (and breaks for emigration … Read more

Charlie Adley’s Double Vision – BEREFT AND BROWN BREADLESS IN THE HEART OF THE CITY!

November 20, 2019 by Allan

Griffin’s Bakery on Shop St, Galway, which was opened in 1876, has unfortunately closed, and yet another cultural and business synapse of this city has been extinguished. The cartoon above depicts the front window of Griffins Bakery in what has become the regular fate of high street, family-run businesses in Irish cities. Charlie wrote about … Read more

Pádraig Conneely Retires from Politics

April 21, 2019 by Allan

Pádraig Conneely Retires

Charlie Adley’s Double Vision – Donkey Monkey Wondering Pondering

April 15, 2019 by Allan

“Group Editor of Tribune newspapers, Dave O’Connell is sitting in for Keith Finnegan on Galway Bay FM[…]
(Indulge me please, as I give thanks that English is my native language. I know but cannot explain why ‘wondering’ and ‘pondering’ do that. English must be a nightmare to learn. Monkey Donkey. Digression over.)”
Cartoon from Charlie’s column last week!

More Double Vision cartoons here.

In Aid of Galway Hospice: “As I Saw It”, the best of John Cunningham

November 20, 2012 by Allan

As I Saw It is a collection of the best columns of the late John Cunningham, former editor of the Connacht Tribune, published by his family in aid of the Galway Hospice. It features a selection of new cartoons by me, some of which I’ll be featuring here. The cover is a caricature I did … Read more