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Table Quiz in aid of MADRA tonight

Crowe’s Bar in Galway city is the venue for a table quiz for Galway-based dog rescue charity MADRA this evening, April 16, from 8pm.

Japanese Film Festival - movies for the cherry blossom season

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FROM ANIME to historical comedies, stories of financial corruption to all kinds of romance, the seventh annual Japanese Film Festival promises a programme of acclaimed new Japanese cinema from some of the country’s leading directors and actors.

Have a mocha for the mutts at MADRA coffee morning

Local dog rescue charity MADRA will be hosting a coffee morning this Friday, March 27, from 10am to 11.30am at Poppyseed Café on Eglinton Street.

Israeli film-maker to speak in Galway

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ISRAELI FILM-MAKER and journalist Yotam Feldman will be in Galway next week for a screening of his award winning documentary, The Lab, which examines how the military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has become a profitable asset for Israel.

Olive Tree’s Mustapha asks people not to forget plight of Syrian refugees

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It has been almost two years now since Castlebar businessman Mustapha Aboubi, owner of the Olive Tree restaurant at Market Square, launched his appeal for Syria.

Table quiz for Gaza

A table quiz to raise funds for humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza is taking place in the Gateway Hotel, Swinford, on Thursday February 19 at 9pm.

iConnect acquires Screenway with the creation of 20 jobs

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iConnect, Ireland’s Apple approved premium reseller has announced that it has acquired Galway company Screenway to roll out its Education arm in Ireland. The deal will see iConnect retain ten employees and create twenty new full-time Education Specialists positions expanding out of Galway and operating nationwide.

‘ When I drop this handkerchief, fire and spare no man’

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Perhaps fearing that the refusal by Irish soldiers to carry out army duties in Wellington Barracks at Jullundur, northeast India, on June 27 1920; and that the mutiny would spread to an already sympathetic native population, leading to a general protest such as at Amritsar the previous year, the army authorities quickly took decisive action. The commanding officer, Lt Col Leeds, strode into the crowd of excited and rebellious soldiers, demanding to speak to its two leaders John Flannery and Joe Hawes. He warned the men that they could be shot for this; that such behaviour only excited the natives to rebellion. Hawes, smoking a cigarette, replied that he would rather be killed by an Indian bullet than by a British one (His disrespectful attitude to his commanding officer was noted).

Athlone Samaritans have busiest year to date

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Athlone Samaritans have had their busiest year to date answering more calls than ever before. Details of the increase in use of Samaritans’ vital service were revealed in the 2013-2014 Impact Report covering Samaritans’ work in Ireland which was launched this week.

You are not alone this Christmas is the message from Samaritans Galway

Almost half a million people called the Samaritans service in Ireland last year with the number of callers to the Galway phoneline reaching an all time high.

 

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