Enjoy Big Apple and ‘Bofin with Croi

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Fancy improving your fitness levels, raising money for a local charity and visiting New York?

Feel good with Patrick Holford

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

In association with Evergreen Healthfoods, Patrick Holford is bringing his The Feel Good Factor seminar tour to Galway this weekend. You can join Patrick Holford at the Radisson Blu Hotel this Saturday at 4pm to hear him explain the links between nutrition, lifestyle and mental health.

Table quiz for Galway Sub Aqua Club

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The Galway Sub Aqua Club, Search and Recovery Unit will host a fundraising table quiz upstairs in Monroe’s Live tomorrow Friday March 11 at 8pm.

A range of prizes is up for grabs including a selection of whiskey and wine, restaurant vouchers, signed books and even boiler services. A raffle will also follow.

Connemara can’t live on beauty alone, says new force Kyne

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

He may not be as long on the scene as Éamon Ó Cuív, he’s not quite the ‘new kid in town’ that is Derek Nolan, and he may not be as outgoing as Noel Grealish, but Sean Kyne has become the quietly emerging figure of Galway politics, who this week took his first steps on the national stage.

Man caught forging social welfare cheque

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A Department of Family and Social Welfare cheque, worth €2,043, was posted to the wrong address where it stayed for several weeks until a man, faced with mounting financial problems, took the chance of lodging the cheque into his own bank account and withdrawing the money, the Galway District Court heard this week.

Public lecture on Galway and 1911 Census

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Galway in 1911 was a very different place to what it is now but we can get a good sense of what it was like through the 1911 Census figures.

Pat Bracken memorial exhibition in city museum

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

An exhibition to commemorate the life and work of the late Pat Bracken will open in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2.30pm.

Give your support for the Galway Rowing Club bumper raffle night

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The Galway Rowing Club, which for more than a century has nurtured the potential of numerous young and gifted rowers, winning 28 Irish titles, is calling on all ex-members and other members of the public to give their support by taking part in its bumper Easter Sunday raffle next month.

Young gun TDs may have to wait for top jobs in new Government

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

Galway is unlikely to receive any cabinet or junior ministerial posts under the next government as the county’s four Fine Gael and two Labour TDs lack enough experience.

Call for volunteers and donations as Irish Cancer Society gears up for Daffodil Day

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

With this year’s Daffodil Day now just weeks away, the Irish Cancer Society is calling for volunteers to help with the annual fundraising event.

Fundraiser for ‘transformed’ Ronan to take part in North Pole challenge

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

A regional representative with the humanitarian charity GOAL in the west and the midlands will take part in the world’s “coolest marathon” at the North Pole in April.

NUIG Students’ Union vows to keeps pressure on new TDs

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

Labour TDs Derek Nolan and Colm Keaveney will come under severe pressure from the NUI Galway Students’ Union not to re-introduce third level fees in any form.

Abbeyknockmoy act are favourites to win The All Ireland Talent Show

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

Abbeyknockmoy set dancers Cosa Beoga are now the odds-on favourite to win The All Ireland Talent Show. The young set dancers who have wowed audiences in recent weeks are appealing for votes to ensure they can dance to victory in the popular TV programme.

Research under way at NUI Galway to develop a dressing for EB sufferers

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

Research is under way at NUI Galway to develop a wound dressing for people suffering from the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa, (EB).

Oiche le Micheal O Conghaile

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

Is údar, file agus drámadóir den scoth é Micheál Ó Conghaile,le go leor duaiseanna litríochta buaite aige.

Man found living in a container bites concerned garda, court hears

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

A five-month suspended sentence was imposed on a Clare man who, after being found living rough in a container, became extremely aggressive and bit a garda on the arm.

Big Family Book Quiz at Kenny’s

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

Kenny’s Bookshop will host the Big Family Book Quiz at 2pm on Saturday as part of World Book Night.

Local courses to open up innovative career path for young people

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

The Centre for Talented Youth Ireland is holding assessments for secondary school students at GMIT’s northern building on Saturday at 1.30pm.

Cannabis addict with debts of €6,000 lured into dealing, court hears

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

A cannabis addict who amassed €6,000 in debts was lured into dealing drugs to a close circle of people in order to repay what he owed, the Galway District Court heard.

‘Serious’ gender gaps must be addressed before gender equality can be achieved

Thu, Mar 03, 2011

While major gains have been made in the last 100 years which transformed the position of women in Ireland “persistent and serious” gender gaps remain which must be addressed before gender equality can be truly achieved.

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