Loughrea Hotel and Spa to host wedding showcase

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

The multi-awardwinning Lough Rea Hotel and Spa is one of the most highly recommended and well known wedding venues in Galway, situated just outside the quaint town of Loughrea overlooking Loughrea Lake.

Canney concerned for school secretaries as Fórsa rejects ‘derisory’ offer

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Independent TD Sean Canney has called on the Government to immediately intercede and ensure that the Department of Education offer a realistic solutions to meet government commitment to end pay inequalities once and for all for schools secretaries and caretakers.

Peak to Peak Challenge to honour Enda Flaherty next week

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

On Saturday August 14, 25 cyclists along with a support crew will depart Peak townland in Claregalway in memory of Enda Flaherty who passed away in August 2020. The cycle will take them on the 80km route through Ballinrobe, Partry and Westport to the foot of Croagh Patrick where the group will then ascend the Reek. With that small challenge finished, they will then return to their bikes and make their way home to Peak once again.

Connemara West wishes GMIT success in application for university status

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

At its monthly Board meeting held last week, Connemara West wished Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) every success in its recent application as part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) to establish a technological university in Connacht/Ulster. The application was made to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD. In addition to GMIT, the Alliance comprises the Institute of Technology Sligo, and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

Joyous scenes as Moycullen man is ordained at Galway Cathedral

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

On a day when Moycullen celebrated the arrival of its Olympic medal into the parish, it had a second joyous event when local man John Gerard Action was ordaind a priest at Galway Cathedral.

Zina services — for care of all your devices

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Zina services — Phone repair and unlocking, printing and photocopying. Laptop and table repair buy and sell devices and accessories

Zina is located at Unit 8, Terryland Retail Park (above Paintrite), Galway 085-7558482 or email [email protected]

Galway County Council launches 2021 anti dog fouling campaign

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Educating and influencing the behaviour of dog owners regarding dog fouling will be to the fore as Galway County Council launch the new Anti-Dog Fouling Campaign ‘If They Poop, You Scoop!’. The campaign is set to firmly emphasise that dog fouling is the responsibility of the dog owner/walker and that they must clean up after their dog.

Galway-Dublin 20-X20 bus petition gathers over 1200 signatures

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

A petition launched by Sinn Féin to Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan calling for restoration of the Bus Éireann 20-X20 Expressway service, which stopped in Craughwell, Loughrea, Aughrim and Ballinasloe, has gathered over 1200 signatures so far, including both physical and online signatures.

On telling ourselves stories

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Plato’s dialogue Timaeus has bequeathed to us a famous phrase, eik?s muthos or “likely story.” Today we use the idiom “a likely story” to dismiss what we are told as a “tall tale.” But, here in the 4th century BC, the phrase refers to an articulation of possibility or a plausible report like a myth or a fable that offers an explanation for some mystery by way of stories and images. It makes perfect sense this phrase appears prominently in the Timaeus, for that dialogue is a story about the formation of the universe; of course, there are no eyewitnesses to that event to whom we can turn for a description.

The important question becomes - why attend to likely stories at all? The point is not about whether a likely story can or should be entirely empirically accurate. Rather, it is about how helpful such likely stories are to us in living well, wisely, and virtuously. For example, likely stories are beneficial in the scientific method when hypotheses, the analytical versions of the “likely story” because they permit us to explore our world in ways we could otherwise never do. They are especially valuable as fairy tales and fiction when they paint value-saturated pictures for us of types of characters, situations, actions, and outcomes.

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Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Athenry Cancer Care building damaged in burglary
Gardai in Athenry are investigating a break-in at the Athenry Cancer Care building which was vandalised during the incident last week.

Petition to save Kinvara post office gathers pace

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Locals in Kinvara have opened an online petition in a bid to ensure that the village does not lose its post office later this month. Those behind the petition say that the impending vacancy in the post office was not widely advertised in any local or national press and therefore, the lack of interest in taking it over is not reflective of reality.

Department of Transport urges development of Quiet Man Greenway

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Fine Gael Deputy Ciaran Cannon has welcomed a submission to the Galway County Development Plan by Minister Eamon Ryan and the Department of Transport, urging Galway Co Council to develop the Quiet Man Greenway connecting Athenry to Milltown.

Atlantic Studio at former airport to create hundreds of jobs

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Backers of the state of the art 40,000 sq ft film and TV studio to be built at the former Galway Airport at Carnmore have been given the green light to move to planning stage with the objective of being open for production next summer.

QuinnBet free bet for 0-0 draws in all Premier League matches

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

The Premier League takes centre stage soon with newly promoted Brentford hosting Arsenal in the season opener on Friday August 13.

The odds suggest that it’s Manchester City’s title to lose again, with QuinnBet setting odds of (4/6) for the champions, with the main contenders Liverpool (5/1), Chelsea (5/1) and Man Utd (8/1).

CO2 monitoring indoors to curb the spread of Covid-19

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Carbon dioxide is generated by the exhaled air from people, air that has been in close contact with lung tissue. Alongside CO2 the exhalation also contains tiny liquid droplets (aerosols) which can float in the air.

Joy at Olympic glory for Galway rowers

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

Champagne was popped and joyous tears were flowing in Moycullen and Furbo villages last night to celebrate Galway's two Olympic medallists who were part of the never-say-die women's coxless fours team that had the nation on the edge of its seat early on Wednesday morning.

Ray McBride - ‘an exceptional artist’

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

“The death of Ray McBride, actor, dancer, and superb artist, will have been heard with sadness by all those who love Irish theatre and performance.”

Mayor concerned gardaí 'not taking action' against 'illegal and unacceptable behaviour'

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

Mayor Colette Connolly says she is deeply concerned that the gardaí are "failing to take action" across a wide range of "illegal and unacceptable activity" in Galway city.

A look back at 25 years of the Kiltartan Gregory Museum

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

In 1990 – exactly 100 years after Sir William Gregory granted a 99-year lease on a section of land at Kiltartan Cross on which to build a schoolhouse – the Kiltartan Gregory Cultural Society was founded. Its aim was to restore the derelict red-brick schoolhouse, the very one commissioned by Sir William Gregory, and to preserve the history of Kiltartan for future generations. The next six years were spent doing just that.

Charity demands ‘heads should roll’ for the ‘disaster’ of the Kirwan Junction design

Thu, Jul 29, 2021

“Nothing short of a disaster,” is how one county councillor has described the new signalised junction at the Kirwan Roundabout in Terryland, for which he said “heads should roll”.

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