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NUI Galway plans to be carbon neutral in nine years

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Carbon neutrality by 2030 and reductions in food wastage and water consumption are among the targets set out in NUI Galway’s new sustainability strategy, launched by the university this week.

Ireland must beware of the far-right virus of intolerance and xenophobia

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Spring is in the air, the temperatures are beginning to rise, the birds are singing, pretty soon the leaves and flowers will begin to bloom.

Four to be charged over ‘Golfgate’ dinner, say Gardai

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Four people are set to be charged in connection with the Oireachtas Golf Society’s dinner in Galway last August.

Galway Community College to launch climate change studies and research event

On Friday December 4, Galway Community College (GCC) will host the official online launch of its three-year Erasmus+ project on locally endangered species and biodiversity loss. This project is a research collaboration of three schools, GCC and schools in Croatia and Spain, working with national wildlife non-Governmental organisations to research and compile information about locally endangered species.

Webinar to discuss life and work of human rights lawyer and activist Kevin Boyle

This Saturday, people are invited to a webinar in which Donncha O’Connell, Established Professor of Law at NUI Galway, and Mike Chinoy, former CNN correspondent and author of Are You With Me? Kevin Boyle and the Rise of the Human Rights Movement to discuss the life and work of human rights lawyer and activist, Kevin Boyle.

Lack of competition ensuring mortgage lending rates remain conspicuously high

As the Central Bank’s retail interest rates for August reveal a continuing wide gap between Irish and euro area mortgage holders, with Irish consumers paying 2.83 percent compared with 1.35 percent on average across the euro area, a differential of 1.48 percent, Brokers Ireland said there is not enough competition in the Irish mortgage market and Irish consumers may have to wait until they can access mortgages across EU borders before we’re likely to see strong competition.

Bad beginnings to the autumn, with even worse to come

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Ordinarily, at this time of year, there is a sense of renewal as politicians, with their batteries recharged, return to work and a new Dáil term begins.

Does Galway need a second waste water treatment plant?

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Hands up all of you who remember the 1980s Save Galway Bay Group and what they were set up to do? If you thought it was the name for the latest pop sensation you are possibly a young Gossoon who would not be much interested in reading any further.

Dep Grealish should not emerge unscathed from 'Golfgate' scandal

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The best and the brightest, apparently, were at the golf get together. ‘Astute’, ‘shrewd’, ‘clever’ are words recipients of college degrees might use to describe the persons in attendance. ‘Wide’ and ‘slick’ are words you might hear in more working-class areas to describe the same people.

Public fury at Clifden dinner shows little sign of abating

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Public anger at the decision to proceed with a golf society dinner in breach of public health guidelines in Clifden is showing no sign of abating a week after the event.

 

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