Christmas presents from Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
The Galway Arts Centre has Christmas gift vouchers available for its New Year evening classes in life drawing, painting, photography, acting, creative writing, and children’s art classes.
Read more ...Colours White Lantern Parade
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
THE THIRD Colours White Lantern Parade takes place this Saturday at 5pm where lanterns will be released into the sky to signify the passing of another year.
Read more ...Young Kilcolgan entrepreneurs spot magical gap in market for reindeer food
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
The children of Kilcolgan Educate Together National School have come up with a way to make Christmas more magical this year — by inventing magic reindeer food.
Read more ...Remarkable new beginning as ‘Pres’ in Athenry gets new school
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
There will soon be a “remarkable” new beginning for Presentation College Athenry who received long-awaited news this week that it will finally have a brand new school building within the next three years.
Read more ...Remand for man charged with hospital tresspass and theft spree
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A 38-year-old man accused of embarking on a tresspass and thieving spree at University Hospital Galway over a four-month period and making off with booty worth nearly €2,000 has been remanded on continuing bail.
Read more ...Forget socks and buy our single, says senator
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A new recording of Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, featuring TDs and Senators, as well as the Dublin Gospel Choir and the Lucan Gospel Choir, has been released.
Read more ...St Patrick’s Brass Band celebrates centenary with charity concert
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Galway’s St Patrick’s Brass Band will celebrate its 100th birthday with a special concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church tomorrow at 7.30pm.
Read more ...It’s Little Mix vs Big Micks as Saw Doctors vie for lucrative Christmas No 1 spot
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
The Saw Doctors are going all out to make the Christmas No 1 in Ireland this year with the release of their version of ‘Downtown’ with Petula Clark.
Read more ...Man who tried to ‘hookwink’ elderly woman given suspended sentence
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A Newcastle man who tried to “hoodwink” and intimidate a vulnerable 81-year-old woman by demanding payment of €700 for the cutting down of trees received an eight-month suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week.
Read more ...Calls to St Vincent de Paul society rocketed by fifty per cent this year
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
The number of people seeking assistance from the Galway branch of the St Vincent de Paul Society has rocketed by 50 per cent this year.
Read more ...Three Limerick men sent for trial for burglary
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Three Limerick men who carried out a serious burglary in Ballybrit on St Patrick’s Day this year have been sent forward for trial.
Read more ...Galway singer seeks public support in YouBloom final
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Galway singer-songwriter Rob Wade, a student of Andres Martorell’s G Voice Studio, has reached the 2011 YouBloom Music Awards final.
Read more ...Duo plead not guilty to robbing Christmas market trader
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Two men charged with following and then robbing a
Read more ...Market draws to a close this weekend with lantern parade
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
The Galway Continental Christmas Market draws to a close this Sunday but will go out on a high with a charity Christmas Lantern parade on Saturday.
Read more ...O’Flaherty demands bylaws for horses and horse drawn carts
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Bye-laws must be introduced prohibiting people from bringing horses and horse drawn vehicles onto beaches and requiring horse drawn carts to have reflective lighting and markings.
Read more ...Protest against septic tank charges to be held outside County Buildings
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A protest against the forthcoming septic tank charge will take place outside County Buildings on Prospect Hill this Monday.
Read more ...Cré na Cille, now ready to read on a Kindle
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Cré na Cille, Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s classic novel, has been adapted for radio, stage, screen, and now, in its latest incarnation, for the e-reader.
Read more ...Jail for man who subjected young woman to seventeen months of harassment
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
A man, who subjected a young woman to a 17-month long campaign of harassment and intimidation during which he stalked her and made numerous offensive remarks, received an 11 month prison sentence with the final five months suspended with strict conditions.
Read more ...SF to hold protest against Anglo payments on Saturday
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
Budget 2012 will take €3.7 billion out of the economy, yet the Fine Gael/Labour coalition has vowed to go ahead with its decision to pay out €3.1 billion in Anglo promissory notes next year.
Read more ...Druid presents festive public reading on Saturday
Thu, Dec 15, 2011
This Saturday Druid will present a free public reading of the play The Chooky Brae, by the acclaimed Scottish writer DC Jackson in the Druid Lane Theatre at 12 noon.
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