Remembering Adrian — weekend car push aims to raise awareness of suicide
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
On this Saturday (August 6) Console and 1life are holding a car push to raise funds and awareness of suicide.
Read more ...Gardening and allotments event in Clarinbridge
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
People in the Clarinbridge area who are interested in starting allotments are invited to the Gortard/Slieveaun allotments this Sunday from 12 noon to 4pm.
At 3pm, Sheila Gallagher will present a multimedia presentation on the Green Sod Land Trust. Ms Gallagher, representing the trust, is one of eight finalists in the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Awards 2011. There will also be information on poly tunnels, and Sylvia Moss will be answering gardening questions.
Read more ...Rab Swannock Fulton to launch new novel
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
TRANSFORMATION, THE dark and supernatural love story by Galway based author Rab Swannock Fulton, is to be launched next week.
The official launch of the Scottish writer’s novel will take place next Wednesday in The Cottage Bar, Lower Salthill, at 8pm.
Read more ...Galway resident ready to rumble as wrestling mania comes to Salthill
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
For the first time in over three years, stars of American wrestling will invade Salthill. On Sunday August 14 the powerhouses of Emerald Wrestling Promotions stamp their mark all over Lesiureland Salthill at 2.45pm.
Read more ...Hands across the globe – Mad Hatters and Family Day race photos help street children of Calcutta
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Children were smiling on both sides of the world this week after an initiative to raise funds at Family Day at the Galway Races helped street children from Calcutta get the opportunity of care and education.
Volunteers attended the races to collect funds and to take pictures of Mad Hatter entrants to be used in a calendar to be published in October, the sales of which will help fund initiatives to help street children in Calcutta.
Read more ...Massive midweek discounts at Graune Pet Farm
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Graune Pet Farm and Play Centre, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo is offering a 50 per cent discount on pre-booked tickets for Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout August. Visitors must book by tomorrow to avail of this discount.
Read more ...Oil off Irish coast must be explored, says Ó Cuív
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
It is vital that the worth and extent of any oil off the Irish coast be examined with a view to exploiting the resource to the benefit of the State and its citizens.
Read more ...Dates announced for Cemetery Sundays
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Cemetery Sunday at the New Cemetery, Bohermore, Galway will take place on Sunday August 21. Mass will begin at 11am and will be celebrated by Fr Patrick Whelan.
Read more ...Weekend art workshop
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
STIÚIDIO NA Coiríbe will host a weekend landscape drawing and painting workshops, aimed at both beginner and experienced, on Saturday August 13 and Sunday 14.
Read more ...Expect pounding heaviness from Italy’s The Secret
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
TRIESTE IN northern Italy in best known to the Irish as the city where James Joyce spent time, writing part of what would become Ulysses.
Read more ...Public meeting on the ‘Arab Spring’
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
The ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions which have swept through North Africa and the Middle East, have seen brutal dictators ousted and demands for democracy and liberty.
A public meeting on the revolutionary movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, and Spain, entitled Revolution On The Rise, takes place on Tuesday in Richardson’s Bar, Eyre Square, at 8pm.
Read more ...Andrea Roche crowns Best Dressed Lady in Hotel Meyrick
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Galway’s Hotel Meyrick hosted its very own Best Dressed Lady Competition last night during a glamorous post races reception where former Miss Ireland and model agency boss Andrea Roche crowned Mayo native Orla O’Neill the deserving winner!
Read more ...Trust Trusty to look after your pet
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
‘Trusty Pet Pals’ is a registered pet care business, including; pet sitting, pet taxi and dog walking. Donations are made to MADRA when you book pet sitting or dog walking.
Read more ...Kinvara Market relocation campaign to kick off next week
Thu, Aug 04, 2011
Kinvara Farmers’ Market will hold a special market day on Friday August 12 when the market will move from its usual location of Johnston’s Garden, Main Street to the main square in Kinvara at the start of the annual Cruinnui na mBad Festival.
Read more ...Fifty thousand head west for bumper holiday weekend of gigs and nags
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
More than 50,000 revellers are set to head to the city from tomorrow as Galway gets ready for its busiest weekend of the year.
Read more ...Shooting the Breeze
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
Horslips matter. They mattered in the 1970s and their reunion proves they matter still. Why? Perhaps, to quote from the opening narration of Return of The Dancehall Sweethearts, the 2005 documentary on the band, “We saw in Horslips something that was ours, something that was of us...[they are] part of what makes us, us.”
Read more ...Free speech - not something our councillors seem to believe in
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny used the words dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, and narcissism in describing the culture dominating the Vatican with regard to the cover-ups of clerical sex abuse in Ireland, and rightly so.
Read more ...A few words of wisdom... as we break for summer
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
It has been some few weeks in Galway politics - political U-turns, denials of freedom of speech, accusations of homophobia, cynical political skulduggery, dubious explanations of motive, and much embarrassment. With that in mind here is a selection of quotes which sum up Galway’s hectic political summer.
Read more ...GeoDirectory records fourteen per cent decrease in new buildings in Galway
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
In the first six months of 2011 there were 459 new residential and commercial buildings identified in Galway, according to figures released by GeoDirectory.
Read more ...Ó Clochartaigh disappointed at arts adjournment
Thu, Jul 28, 2011
Sen Trevor Ó Clochartaigh has expressed his disappointment this week that the Oireachtas has embarked on its summer break without a promised debate on the arts.
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