How to wear autumn trends for plus sizes

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Getting great autumn looks for a plus size can be difficult, and you often end up buying clothes because they fit rather than because they suit you and make you look good. Here are some hot ideas for plus size autumn trends:

David Martin — on your doorstep

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

David Martin, one of the city’s most established and well -respected salons, opened its second Galway city salon at Kingston Road (opposite Joyce’s supermarket) 22 months ago, and what a success it has been.

David Martin provides the ultimate in relaxation while professional hair stylists take care of your tresses. You can enjoy a shiatsu massage while your hair is being shampooed, or why not treat your hair to a personalised treatment and then relax under the new hair spa for 20 minutes — your hair and scalp will be left fully reinvigorated. Treatments are available for €20 extra, appointments are highly recommended to ensure the hair spa is available.

Change is good at the Townhouse Restaurant

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

The Townhouse Restaurant is located over the Townhouse Bar facing the Spanish Arch. It has had a couple of identity changes in the last year or two, and that normally does not bode well. However in this case I think they have come up with a formula that works, funky styling, the menu, food quality, and the prices. The décor is pretty hard to describe, but a cross between random retro and New York funky might be a rough guide. Where there was once the usual suspended spotlights, there is now a collection of every type of retro shade you could imagine and a really clever line of about 20 to 30 Heinz beans tins transformed into downlighters. The tables are definitely sixties and the unusual chairs are eyecatching and pleasantly comfortable. The music is similarly retro and well chosen.

Hi tech fitness for the time poor

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

BodySmart in Barna leads with the Power Plate as its key high tech equipment focus. Developed by NASA to help astronauts regain muscle tone and strengthen bone density after spending time in space without gravity, the device has incredible uses for the rest of us, according to Morgan Pierce, MD of BodySmart.

Galway Bay Half Marathon - what happens next?

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Months, weeks, days of training have led up to the Galway Bay Half Marathon this weekend where sprightly runners will be togged out and ready to pound the pavements in aid of various charities, to beat personal challenges, or just for fun, but when it’s all over will you be hanging up your trainers?

Acupuncture as a treatment for pain relief

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Acupuncture is a Chinese therapy that works miracles for different diseases, especially for relief of acute pain. According to traditional Chinese medical theory, there are energy pathways called meridians that flow through your body. A blockage of these pathways results in health related issues. When needles are inserted in the areas which influence the energy flow through the meridians this relieves the pain.

Learn the twelve commandments of love

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Are you blessed with a lifelong loving intimate relationship? Sadly few of us are. Professor Harvey Wasserman, MD and director of the Galway Healing Road Psychotherapy Clinic, estimates that at most 10 per cent of committed relationships are excellent, 20 per cent are good, and the rest are in various states of numbness or misery. Professor Wasserman believes there are 12 commandments for happiness.

Turning our life around

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Dr Eva Orsmond, who has become a household name, is probably best known for her role as RTE’s hugely popular Operation Transformation diet and nutrition expert. The programme sees a group of people put on a rigid diet and exercise programme in a bid to lose weight. But behind the scenes, Dr Eva’s battle to re-educate people on health fitness is changing hundreds of people’s lives every day.

2010 — a good vintage for fabrics

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Pierre Frey 75th birthday
For 75 years family firm Pierre Frey has maintained its independence and inventiveness in textiles. The company, which celebrates is 75th anniversary this year, is known for its unlimited palette, joyous colours, and artistic patterns. In that respect nothing has changed in the three generations since the firm was established on January 1 1935. Furnishing fabric is not a fickle fashion. People choose a fabric because they like it and want to live with it for years. It is not a caprice; it is a choice and the reflection of a culture. That is why Pierre Frey looks at the past, the present, and the future, drawing inspiration from everything, Indian and Ottoman, silk or cotton damask, cloth woven with metal threads.

For 75 years family firm Pierre Frey has maintained its independence and inventiveness in textiles. The company, which celebrates is 75th anniversary this year, is known for its unlimited palette, joyous colours, and artistic patterns. In that respect nothing has changed in the three generations since the firm was established on January 1 1935. Furnishing fabric is not a fickle fashion. People choose a fabric because they like it and want to live with it for years. It is not a caprice; it is a choice and the reflection of a culture. That is why Pierre Frey looks at the past, the present, and the future, drawing inspiration from everything, Indian and Ottoman, silk or cotton damask, cloth woven with metal threads.

Successful parenting

Thu, Sep 30, 2010

Parents want to do the best for their children. They shower them with love and attention and worry when they are unwell or unhappy.

Tackling tiredness

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

When you wake up in the morning do you wish you could stay in bed? Do you feel tired and weary with little appetite for a new day?

The Malt House Restaurant

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

The Malt House Restaurant has always had a great reputation for serving good food consistently over a great many years. Just over a year ago the restaurant transformed itself into a slightly different, less formal, dining room and focused on creating a menu using the very best of local ingredients. It even has very large pictures of some of its suppliers on the walls, which gives an indication of how seriously the company takes finding the best produce. I called in on a very wet Thursday at 7pm and there were quite a few tables filled with diners. It seems to attract a cross section of tourists, locals, and parties out for the night. While somewhat less formal than before, the service is as polished as ever, and throughout the night it was impressive to watch all the tables being looked after in an efficient, but not pushy, manner. Service is not something to be overlooked when choosing a restaurant for a night out. There is nothing worse than to have an otherwise good meal spoiled by poor service; however I think that recently the standard of service generally has improved in restaurants.

Steak Steaks with plum sauce

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

A delicious recipe from www.bordbia.ie
Ingredients

Turning our life around

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

Dr Eva Orsmond, who has become a household name, is probably best known for her role as RTE’s hugely popular Operation Transformation diet and nutrition expert. The programme sees a group of people put on a rigid diet and exercise programme in a bid to lose weight. But behind the scenes, Dr Eva’s battle to re-educate people on health fitness is changing hundreds of people’s lives every day.

New season, new you

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

As the summer has come to a close, for most of us we are left with good memories of our holidays and the not-so-good extra holiday weight. All the overeating and partying has left us feeling sluggish and our skinny jeans are a little too snug. However there is a solution.

Xipisan™ weight loss programme is a revolutionary slimming aid supplement which is available through pharmacies nationwide and is dedicated to help you combat those stubborn pounds in a safe and healthy manner without causing the body any undue stress.

Red Barn colour scheme helps nursing home clients

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

The Red Barn in Briarhill Business Park is always evolving and coming up with new ways and ideas to transform homes and improve upon ways of decorating, painting, and window dressings. The crew recently undertook a renovation to a nursing home, where the owner wanted the rooms updated and modernised but had to conform to standards and be very functional, with of course cleaniness and comfort a high priority.

Balance is best in early stimulus for your baby

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

Parents of small babies know that it is important to stimulate their children from an early age by providing opportunities for them to explore their environments.

By stimulation we mean all the things parents naturally do with young children — talk, sing, play with them, tickle them, and cuddle them.

Pioneers of industry in Galway

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

There were very few industrial plants in Galway in the 1950s. Galway Textile Printers, known locally as the cotton factory, had just opened; there was the hat factory, and there were some small units around town, but that was it. Then the Lemass era arrived, and there was a change in government policy as the government began to actively encourage industries from abroad to locate here.

Is Ms Jennifer Sleeman a bit of a crackpot?

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

I have always thought it strange why so many women feel isolated from the Catholic Church, when it has at its centre a woman, Mary - the Mother of God. It is not right that many women feel they are ‘second class citizens’ within a church that attempts to reach out to all. Surely without Mary, the New Testament would be worthless. Surely after the Nazarene Himself, the Mother of Jesus, who is venerated by the Catholic and Orthodox churches, is the first and greatest saint in heaven. Mary is revered by all Christian churches, and honoured by Islam. At the very first council of the Church, at Ephesus four hundred years after Christ, she was declared to be the Theotokos, Mother of God (the actual God bearer). But even before that her image, holding the Child, was etched into tombs in the Roman catacombs. Being the Theotokos, Mary could have become remote, unreal from the human experience. After all we are told that she was born free from Original Sin, which as a total ‘theological illiterate’ I don’t fully understand; but I accept the logic that if Mary was not the mother of God, then Jesus was not God. I believe that He was. Yet despite the supreme position of Mary many women feel isolated, uninvolved, as if they have no contribution to make.

No more sleepless nights

Thu, Sep 16, 2010

You’ve just tucked them in bed, sung a soothing lullaby and dimmed the bedroom lights. You are looking forward to a quiet evening toasting your toes in front of the fire or catching up on the latest news with your friend on the telephone.

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