Exciting new training opportunities with Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Longford and Westmeath Education and Training Board, Further Education and Training is committed to delivering an extensive range of training courses to its learners. LWETB offers full-time, part-time, and blended learning courses along with a comprehensive suite of fully online programmes. These programmes range across many sectors including information communication technology, social media, health care, construction, engineering, health and beauty, and software development.

LWETB ensures programmes meet current industry standards by working with industry leaders to develop and update programmes to meet market needs. Its programmes are developed in line with local and national needs and often in conjunction with industry collaboration, resulting in highly desired job ready skills on completion.

How to make the best choices

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

The choice of career path options are many and varied. Selecting the correct career progression option following your Leaving Cert or at any other stage in life is a major challenge for any of us. For the majority of those reflecting on this dilemma today the ultimate answer will be found in receiving and accepting a CAO offer in August/September next.

Create your bright future at NUI Galway

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Ranking in the top 2% of universities worldwide and the Sunday Times University of the year 2022, choosing to study at NUI Galway will provide you with a world of opportunity. Choose the course that is right for you, www.nuigalway.ie/cao.

Cavan Institute – What the students say

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Despite the challenges faced by students with the COVID 19 Pandemic, Cavan Institute remains one of the largest providers of PLC courses in Ireland.

Irish Water appeals to homes and businesses in Galway to prepare for icy weather

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Irish Water and Local Authorities are asking homes and businesses to take some simple steps to avoid damage to their pipes and help conserve water during the cold weather.

Are food intolerances making you sick, tired, or overweight?

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

What foods turn off your metabolism? Yvonne Duffy O’Shaughnessy, The Health and Nutrition Coach, offers blood analysis to help you find out what foods are slowing down your metabolism. Do you find it impossible to lose weight and keep it off despite your best efforts to diet? Does everyone around you seem to eat more than you - and yet somehow end up slimmer? Do most of your excess pounds sit around your tummy? Do you feel tired for much of the time, irritable and unable to focus?

SmartFit Hearing brings something new to Galway hearing aid wearers

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

SmartFit Hearing has opened a six-days-a-week audiology centre in Galway. The company aims to provide the people of Galway with an alternative to overly priced hearing solutions. The business model is simple, SmartFit Hearing engages with the large hearing aid manufacturers to get the latest hearing aid technology for reasonable prices. Then it passes these savings on to the customer.

Lose up to two stone in ten weeks

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

With total focus on fixing your metabolism, System 10 can help you transform your weight loss, energy, sleep, health and much more. A good metabolism is the foundation of everything you are. A good metabolism gets you burning more fat every hour, 24 hours a day. Nothing can beat it for results. It is your weight loss master switch.

It controls the results from your diet and exercise. It does not matter how good you are with your food and exercise, metabolism faults severely limit your results and cause the stubborn fat on your stomach, hips, thighs and back of arms. A good metabolism means you can lose up to three pounds of real fat each week – almost one stone per month.

NUI Galway launches Designing Futures programme for next generation graduates

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

NUI Galway has launched a new educational programme that will prepare students to deal with the complexity and uncertainty of life and the future world of work.

Beginner group bodhran classes

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Rhythm is in all of us, and there has never been a better time to take up a new challenge and a new instrument than now. If you have always wanted to play music but do not know where to start, or you are already playing but do not know how to take your playing to the next level, now is the time. The next batch of Bodhran Magic adult group beginner courses is registering now and starting very soon in the city centre.

The bodhran is simply a brilliant instrument to play, is very accessible for all ages, and has become extremely popular now for very good reason. Run by professional Galway musician and educator Brian Ferguson, the courses provide proper tuition and a brilliant step by step learning system that keeps students motivated, inspired, and is just so enjoyable as you progress and learn to play along to tunes with confidence and clarity.

New course on colour at Aine's Art Studio

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most" - John Ruskin.

GMIT maths lecturer publishes first empirical evidence-based report on Irish post primary students’ knowledge of algebra

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

An important new empirical evidence-based report on Irish post-primary students’ knowledge of algebra identifies strengths and weaknesses in their knowledge of the subject and proposes recommendations to address the weaknesses.

The report finds that students have good knowledge of equality, proportional reasoning, patterns, and comparing and ordering numbers, but that they are struggling with key skills such as fractions, decimal numbers, order of operations, and indices.

Spanish courses starting at The Spanish Institute

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

The spring term at The Spanish Institute will start the first week of February and will offer a variety of group classes to all levels, as well as one to one classes, both on site and online. The new schedule is now available on the institute’s website, www.spanishinstitute.ie, where students will be able to book their chosen course until January 29.

Live for a year in a restored ‘1 Euro’ Sicilian home

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

BY DECLAN VARLEY
The search is on for the ideal candidate to live rent-free for a year and host a decayed-turned-designer Italian heritage home. With a newfound flexibility to live and work remotely, one person will be given the opportunity to relocate to Sicily with their family, partner, or friend and move into this uniquely restored house.

Set sail with Cruise Worldwide Fahy Travel

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Whether you are a cruise connoisseur or have yet to dip your toes into the world of luxury on-board travel, Fahy Travel can help you choose the perfect cruise. The dedicated Cruise Worldwide team, under the management of Caroline O’Toole, can guide you with incomparable personal experience and cruising knowledge, all you need to do is tell them where you want to go.

Ballad about Galway IRA man is revived and recorded

Tue, Jan 18, 2022

A century after it was composed, a ballad about a Galway IRA volunteer murdered by British Crown Forces during the War of Independence, has been formally performed and recorded.

‘Was it wise to sign the Treaty?’

Thu, Jan 13, 2022

Was the Treaty the means that gave Ireland “the freedom to achieve freedom”, or was it a betrayal of the ideal that had been fought for since 1916 - an Irish Republic?

Tragedy at Annaghdown prompts a strange fairy visit

Thu, Jan 13, 2022

‘My father had a sister Bríd. She was a beautiful woman when she was young. She was friendly with Jack (Seán) ‘ac Coscair, but her father never knew they had spoken a word to each other. It was Bríd who used to rake the fire and close the door each night. She raked the fire and closed the door that night, and she went to bed. She was only a short time asleep when a sinneán (strong gust of wind) came, and the door was blown in against that wall below. ‘Get up, Bríd,’ said her father, ‘and close the door!’

The West Bridge, a brief history of the early years

Thu, Jan 13, 2022

The city of Galway was known in ancient times as ‘Streamstown’ because the Galway River divided into several small waterways in addition to the main river. The river was much more spread out then and was fordable in some places. The city was placed on the east side of the river, which acted as protection against the Irish families displaced by the Norman settlers who took over the area in the early 13th century. The walls of the city provided protection on the east and north side of the city and the various gates allowed access. The river was a barrier to trade with Iar-Chonnacht and so the merchant families began to feel the need to build a bridge to help expand trade, it would provide access to customers from the west, and also allow them to bring in their produce, fruit, vegetables, meat, hay, etc, to the various markets in town.

Irish language classes for all levels at Áras na nGael

Thu, Jan 13, 2022

If you are looking for a New Year’s resolution, why not learn Irish as a new skill, or get back into the swing of it. Áras na nGael is offering Irish language classes this spring. Whether you are fluent and looking to improve your grammar, want to get back in touch with your Irish from school, or are looking to start your Irish language journey from scratch, the Áras offers a wide range classes. From beginners' Irish to more advanced classes and everything in between, there is something for everyone.

Classes will be starting on January 25 and 26 and online registration is now open.

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