Search Results for 'Fire Brigade'

Moses Merryweather and his son Richard lived in Clapham, London and they worked with the engineer Edward Field on putting his design of a vertical boiler onto a horse-drawn platform.

The charity family farm open day will take place on Saturday, April 8, providing a day of top notch entertainment in aid of Embrace FARM an organisation that supports farming families who have suffered the loss of a loved one in a farming accident.

Cllr Donal Lyons says it ‘beggars belief’ that funding of one million euro is being allocated by the National Transport Authority for the temporary Salthill cycleway.

The lives of five people were saved in the city this week through the quick actions of the Galway RNLI Lifeboat crew.

At the beginning of the last century, Beatty Brothers had a foundry in Mill Street. In 1913, they advertised ‘a desire to announce that their factory was fitted with a first-rate plant for the manufacture of spades and shovels. Tons of them were sold last season’.

Galway’s character is defined by the currents and tides of river and sea and by the constant hum and variety of human activity all along those waters. Among the many ships and vessels, large and small, leisure and commercial, that ply those eddies, surely one of the most important is the RNLI Galway Lifeboat which operates out of its station on New Docks.

Mayo Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin has said this week that €480,000 funding is being sought to build a flood barrier at Bachelors Walk in Ballina to prevent flooding from the River Moy. The news comes following a meeting of Deputy Mulherin, Junior Minister with Special responsibility for the OPW Simon Harris, and Mayo County Council officials.