Connacht Tribune Archives – Caricatures Ireland by Allan Cavanagh

Countdown to Christmas 2025: Contaminated Christmas Pork!

18/12/2025 by Allan

Drunk pig in Santa hat saying "I'm absolutely contaminated!"

A cartoon from a chapter on the family fry-up from As I Saw It, a collection of the writings of the late John Cunningham. Want to order a caricature? Click here. Want to make an enquiry? Click here. See my reviews here. See even more examples of my art at the bottom of this post! … Read more

Countdown to Christmas 2025: That Time Charlie Adley was the Christmas Fairy!

11/12/2025 by Allan

Cartoon of a man in a fairy costume with a star wand sitting on top of the Christmas Tree

I used to illustrate Charlie Adley’s weekly column in the Connacht Tribune and while the specifics are lost to me at this stage (this cartoon is from 2008!) I believe this particular column involved some mention of Christmas! Want to order a caricature? Click here. Want to make an enquiry? Click here. See my reviews … Read more

Double Vision The End

03/01/2020 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!

20/11/2019 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

21/04/2019 by Allan

Padraig Conneely fine gael councillor Galway Retires
Pádraig Conneely Retires

Charlie Adley’s Double Vision – Donkey Monkey Wondering Pondering

15/04/2019 by Allan

Dave O'Connell Connacht Tribune monkey donkey wondering pondering
“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.