The Occupy Galway camp may be gone, but the movement and its members have by no means dispersed or given up and are already planning for what they call “Phase II”.
This was the message from Occupy Galway members and sympathisers yesterday at a rally in Eyre Square held to protest against the removal of the camp by the gardaí and the Galway City Council, as well as to discuss where the movement goes next.
A lot of the hotels in Galway can be divided into two types. The first kind was built in recent years, a result of the economic boom, largely run by professional management companies whose brief was to merely keep the business afloat and get 'heads in beds'. Flannery's is the other sort of Galway hotel. It is part of the landscape and the fabric of life in the city east area, providing employment and welcoming guests from Ireland and many parts of the world since it first opened in 1969.
“THERE ARE some musicians who entertain us, fine; some who stimulate us, better; and then some who immerse us in something so powerful that primal emotions surface instantly; making us ultra-defensive, or, finally open to illumination. One of the latter is Vicky Langan.”
The auction team at Property Partners Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard have had a busy six weeks in the run up to the May auctions, which take place tomorrow (Friday) at 3pm in the Imperial Hotel. According to the agents, interest has been keen with a flurry of activity from interested purchasers throughout the six-week auction campaign.
So much of road safety centres around persuading people to slow down. Rightly so; speed does indeed kill. In ordinary circumstances any given human mistake and any given collision will be made much worse by excessive speed.