Health, Beauty & Fashion
OxyGeneration — reversing long Covid
Thu, Oct 13, 2022
Clients of OxyGeneration continue to report ‘phenomenal results’ for long Covid symptoms. Some have come because the Beacon Hospital Long Covid Clinic explained to them the reasons for the benefits.
Home & Garden
Christmas is covered at Home Gallery
Thu, Nov 03, 2022
Sometimes you visit a store and your breath will be taken away. That is what will happen when you take a trip to Home Gallery’s showroom at Briarhill Business Park.
Education & Training
Learn valuable tech skills with Fastrack to Information Technology
Thu, Nov 17, 2022
Since 1999, Fastrack to Information Technology (FIT) has been a representative organisation of the technology sector committed to growing Ireland’s tech talent pipeline. The aim is to create wider access to tech skills training leading to exciting career paths and quality employment opportunities for all those who have a curiosity and passion for technology.
Food & Wine
Galway Food Tours launch winter tour program
Thu, Nov 17, 2022
by Róisín Kilroy
An eco-conscious and delicious tour of the Galway food scene will take place on Saturday, November 26, and will feature the city's fashion, food and crafts markets.
Travel & Outdoors
National organisation for bed & breakfast owners seeks additional properties across Ireland
Thu, Nov 17, 2022
B&B Ireland has announced that it is looking for more properties, particularly in popular tourist destinations across the island of Ireland, as a result of ongoing demand from its international tour operator partners. The organisation is responsible for bringing half a million tourists a year into the B&B sector through its global promotion of the Irish B&B experience.
Old Galway
Galwegians RFC, one hundred years
Thu, Nov 24, 2022
It is fairly certain that rugby football was being played in Galway before the formation of the IRFU, but the lack of surviving minutes of meetings or records makes it difficult to pinpoint the actual beginnings of some clubs. We know that in 1886 there were four clubs in existence, Queen’s College (now UG), The Grammar School, Galway Town, and Old Galwegians. These latter two clubs amalgamated in the 1909/10 season and called themselves Galway Town. They were a successful club. World War I and its aftermath ruled out competitive rugby but in the resumption, in 1921/22 they again won the senior cup and then, for some reason, decided to change the name again, this time to Galwegians RFC.
Galway Diary
Harsh winter weather leads to severe famine
Thu, Nov 24, 2022
Harsh winter weather leads to severe famine.
November 1739 was bitterly cold with constant northeast winds culminating in a prolonged period of intense frost which started from about the middle of December and continued for 8 to 9 weeks. The frost killed birds in large numbers. Even sheep died from the cold. Turnips were destroyed as well as trees and shrubs. Galway’s great historian James Hardiman records that ‘the river was frozen from the bridge to the mouth of Lough Corrib, and continual recreations were held on the ice from Woodquay to Newcastle and Terrilan. This memorable winter was followed by famine and pestilence in which multitudes of the poor perished’.