€3.5 million for new city library and cultural centre for Galway city

Tue, Jan 19, 2016

€3.5 million is to be provided towards the development of a new city library and cultural centre for Galway city, which will include a visual arts space, performance area, and conference space.

High praise for Galway’s 2020 bid, but concerns that ‘European dimension’ is lacking

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

support for its European Capital of Culture bid, and has the potential to host an event of this magnitude. However Galway 2020’s lack of detail and plans on the all-important ‘European Dimension’ has been criticised by the capital of culture selection panel.

Local concern over city heroin den

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

A concerned resident of the Riverside Estate on the Tuam Road has demanded action over heroin use in the area. The man, who does not wish to be named, has provided photographic evidence of a user’s den which has been created adjacent to the estate.

New exercise opportunity for the New Year

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

A new and exciting form of physical activity that is good for heart health has been brought to Galway by Croi in association with the Football Association of Ireland (FAI).

Walking football as the name implies is just that, a slower version of soccer with bans on running and tackles.

Great range of activities and courses at Youth Work Ireland Galway

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Youth Work Ireland Galway is a voluntary and not for profit organisation that works with young people in Galway City and County. Their service is open to all young people aged between 10 – 21 years and most activities are free or low cost.

Conference on mobile technologies in teacher education in city

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Technologies to be used in the classrooms of the near future will be discussed at a major conference on teaching technology being held in the city this week.

Call for permanent reminders to mark the centenary of 1916

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Galway County Council has announced details of ‘Gaillimh 2016 – Cuimhneamh’ a grant scheme to support community inspired, permanent reminders of the centenary commemorations of the 1916 Rising in the form of creative artworks or sculptures of a high artistic quality.

The scheme will afford communities new ways of Remembering, Reconciling, Presenting, Imagining and Celebrating the centenary of the 1916 Rising while engaging with the central role played by the people of the County of Galway, and in particular their own Municipal District, in the Easter Rising.

Cancer survivor holds charity event to remember Bowie

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

A special night to commemorate the passing this week of rock legend David Bowie will take place this Saturday, January 16 in The Loft at Seven Bar on Bridge Street.

117 companies confirmed for Skipper Expo

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

117 companies from the Irish fishing industry will exhibit at at Skipper Expo Int at the Galway Bay Hotel on 4 and 5 March.

Motorway construction must not exacerbate flooding warns Connaughton

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Construction of the new N17/18 Tuam to Gort motorway “must not exacerbate flooding in north and south Galway”, as householders and land owners need to be “reassured” that flood risk is given “proper recognition” in the motorway’s design.

Tenant Purchase Scheme will ‘increase home ownership in Galway’ says Nolan

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Local authority tenants who want to buy their own homes will be able to do so under the new Tenant Purchase Scheme which one Galway TD has described as “a very progressive step”.

The Tenant Purchase Scheme, which was introduced on January 1, allows tenants to buy a home provided they satisfy a range of criteria, such as having a minimum reckonable income of at least €15,000 per annum. The scheme also involves a discount, for any tenant purchasing his/her house, of 40 per cent, 50 per cent, or 60 per cent, depending on the income coming into the house, and is specifically focused on assisting tenants in local authority houses to become homeowners.

Changes abound for lots of TV viewers in Galway

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

A large number of householders in Galway have been forced to seek a new TV supplier after receiving notification from Virgin Media (formerly UPC) that the company is discontinuing the provision of MMDS TV. The reason behind the move is that the licence which allowed the company transmit TV in the area will expire on April 18.

Local residents oppose ‘privatisation’ of community centre

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

A group of residents from the Ballinfoile Mór-Castlegar area demonstrated outside City Hall last Monday afternoon in advance of a Galway City Council meeting to voice their opposition to any effort by the local authority to privatise a new community centre in the area.

In a statement the group said that, after campaigning for 30 years for proper interior sports and community facilities, “the local community will not allow it to be lost to private enterprise whose priority understandably will be profitability rather than fulfilling social needs”.

UHG staff help Nepalese quake victims

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

A Galway woman who spearheaded a fundraising drive for the victims of the earthquakes in Nepal visited the country recently to distribute aid.

Feet tapping in Claregalway for Strictly Come Dancing contest

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Claregalway GAA Club are hosting a night of Strictly Come Dancing as a club fundraiser for the coming year in The Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 29 2016 at 7.30pm. This event promises to be a night of high quality entertainment and craic with 34 dancers dusting off their dancing shoes for a night on the floor.

Unemployment figure rose in Galway in December, says Charity

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Despite a steadying economy and unemployment dropping to nine percent, the number of unemployed in Galway city and county rose again last month by 346, with a total of 16,000 people now out of work.

Poetry, music, sadness, and stories — funeral for golfing great mirrored his life

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Galway bade farewell to its favourite golfing son Christy O’Connor jnr this week when thousands of mourners paid their last respects to this iconic sporting hero.

Cllr Pearce Flannery to represent Galway City Council on NUI Galway governing authority

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Cllr Pearce Flannery has been elected to the NUI Galway governing authority.

Hospice thanks Gort man whose climbs raised thousands

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Galway Hospice has this week paid tribute to a Gort man whose mountain treks around the region have raised thousands of euro for their fundraising efforts.

Health Minister responsible for ‘flawed policies’ claims General Election candidate

Thu, Jan 14, 2016

Health Minister Leo Varadker has been accused of presiding over “bad budgets and flawed policies”.

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