Create your dream home with Cherrymore Kitchens and Bedrooms

Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Are you building your dream home? Thinking of renovating? Don’t get stressed and frightened by all the current debate on price increases, materials shortages, and poor service – Cherrymore Kitchens and Bedrooms is here to save the day and help you get your project completed on time, on budget, and to a top quality finish.

Skills To Advance: Online course in manual and computerised payroll

Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) presents a comprehensive Pitman Training payroll course, which provides a thorough introduction to payroll principles in the manual section and in the computerised section.

Learners create real life payroll scenarios using Sage Micropay software, in addition to learning about PAYE modernisation. This course is fully funded under the Skills to Advance initiative for those in employment.

Steamboats come to Galway

Wed, Aug 10, 2022

One hundred and fifty years ago, on August 17, 1872, the paddle steamer Citiy of the Tribes was launched in South Shields in England. She was built by JT Eltringham, weighed 117 gross tons, and was registered for the Galway Bay Steamboat Company. Her arrival in the docks caused great excitement. She was hailed as heralding a new future for shipping in the west, the age of steam. She was the only steamboat in Galway, a paddle tug about 96ft x 18ft x 9ft, and as you can see from her schedule for July 1875 printed here, she was a busy vessel. On the days not listed, she travelled on excursions or to Aran.

The family secret that Sir William and Lady Wilde hid from society

Wed, Aug 10, 2022

The appointment of William Wilde as assistant commissioner for the 1851 Census, which covered the time of the Great Famine, and would challenge the various guesstimates of the number of its victims, was initially seen as foolhardy.

It’s Cardiac Rehab!

Mon, Aug 08, 2022

A new podcast aims to save lives by encouraging patients who have suffered heart attacks, angioplasty or heart surgery to attend cardiac rehabilitation.

Introducing Laura Ashley designs at Home Focus at Hickeys

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

Home Focus at Hickeys has announced the launch of the Laura Ashley curtains and bedding range at its Wellpark store.

Inis Caorach, Mutton Island

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

In the year 1124, the town was put in a state of security and a strong castle was built at Dún Bun na Gaillimhe (the fortification at the mouth of the Galway River). Several times in the next century, the kings of Munster invaded Connacht bringing death and destruction and usually destroying the town and the buildings on the island. In 1190, there is a reference to Lismacuan, ‘The fort on the Mouth of the Harbour’

The priest who stole Cong’s famous cross

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

The Cross of Cong, one of Ireland’s great ecclesiastical treasures, was reputedly made at Cloncraff monastary, Co Roscommon. Its unsurpassed craftsmanship was inspired by its relic, a splinter of the wood of the cross on which Christ was crucified.

Concussion – healing injured brain tissue

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

Concussion and traumatic brain injuries (TBI) can cause a number of debilitating conditions with few treatment options. Fortunately, hyperbaric oxygenation has helped many people with concussion and should be included in the concussion treatment guidelines.

How to prevent your ears popping – and other tips to protect your hearing on holiday

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

Taking a break and jetting off abroad can be the perfect way to escape the reality of day-to-day life. But for some, the perfect getaway can start to wreak havoc on our ears as soon as the plane takes off.

Lose up to two stone in ten weeks

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

The three keys to a genuine weight loss (real fat loss) plan are diet, exercise, and metabolism correction. All three keys interconnect – one will not work without the other. Your metabolism is the most powerful of the three keys – it is the ‘switch’ that controls everything else. In most people this switch is off. Metabolism problems such as slow thyroid, type 2 diabetes, sluggish liver, hormone imbalances, PCOS, endometriosis, infertility, and digestive problems like constipation, IBS, and diverticulitis will limit or stop your weight loss, no matter how much dieting or exercise you do.

System 10 scientifically combines food and exercise to fix your metabolism for amazing weight loss and toning. You also get great energy, better sleep, and other health benefits – all connected to metabolism problems.

Malaysia at a glance

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

Malaysia is one of the most underrated countries in SouthEast Asia. Having previously heard next to nothing about the region and finding little online, I travelled to Malaysia with few expectations.

Great deals now available on summer 2023 holidays

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

While the full programme is not yet on sale, there are quite a number of the more popular family holiday destinations open for booking for 2023 through Fahy Travel. Most departures are from Dublin, however charter flights from Shannon to Lanzarote and Salou are now loaded in the system, with a limited number of free child places available.

GRETB Training Centre now accepting applications for evening and Saturday courses

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

GRETB Training Centre Mervue is now accepting applications for its evening and Saturday courses commencing in September.

Substantial capital funding to support apprenticeship in further and higher education

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science, Simon Harris, and Minister of State for Skills and Further Education, Niall Collins, recently announced the roll-out of €17.2 million in capital funding to respond to the growing demand for apprenticeships.

This builds on the €20 million Apprenticeship Capital Fund investment in 2021 across both the further and higher education sectors.

Galway’s Gaisce Gold Award recipients asked to help inspire a new generation of community leaders

Thu, Aug 04, 2022

Gaisce – The President’s Award, the nation’s highest recognition of young people’s initiative, achievements, and voluntary contribution to society, is seeking to connect with nearly 40 years of Gold Award recipients through a Gold Voices Community network - reuniting those who completed the journey through the years and calling on them to step up and inspire the next generation of Gold awardees.

“They had their great days and peace and plenty...”

Thu, Jul 28, 2022

Week IV
For a time Tyrone House must have accurately resembled the scene described by Violet Martin in a letter to her friend Edith Somerville where ‘half-peasant families roosted together in that lovely house and fought, and barricaded, and drank, till the police had to intervene’.

Wolfe Tone Bridge

Thu, Jul 28, 2022

Wolfe Tone Bridge was the third bridge to be built over the river. The West Bridge (now known as O’Brien’s Bridge) was the first and dates from medieval times. The Salmon Weir Bridge dates from 1820, and the Wolfe Tone Bridge was built in the mid-19th century.

Apply now for NUI Galway's prestigious MBA programme

Thu, Jul 28, 2022

NUI Galway’s AMBA and AACSB accredited MBA programme will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. An MBA is the one of the most prestigious business degrees globally, and the AMBA (Association of MBAs) accredited NUI Galway MBA is one of the Ireland’s leading programmes.

Captain Eddie McGuire, Defence Forces and Department of Defence Joint Research, Technology and Innovation Unit, discussed his experience studying the MBA at NUI Galway: “The Defence Forces is embarking on an unprecedented organisational transformation," he said. "I wanted to undertake an MBA to enhance my ability to operate at the strategic level and contribute positively to the change ahead.

New partnership will promote NUI Galway to students in Asia and beyond

Thu, Jul 28, 2022

NUI Galway and Cialfo, a Singapore-headquartered ed-tech provider, have signed an agreement that will help promote the university to prospective students in Asia and worldwide.

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