Get ready for winter with Feely's totalhealth Pharmacy

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

At Feely’s totalhealth Pharmacy, Dublin Road, Tuam, the team are trained and ready to offer the best advice to keep you feeling well this winter. The pharmacy offers a wide range of vitamins and natural remedies combined with expert advice to find a healthcare routine that works for you and your lifestyle. As we return to the workplace and schools reopen this month, Feely's is offering a buy one, get one half price, promotion on selected vitamins until the end of September, helping you and your family take total control of your health.

Eight things that can cause a running injury

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

Injury need to not be an inevitable part of your running. Find out the common causes of running injury so that you can better avoid them.

'I had worked in IT since leaving university, but I never felt that spreadsheets and storage solutions were my true calling'

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

After my dad had a heart attack, I started to read about nutrition as I wanted to find out how I could help him and what preventative health measures I could use for myself and my family.

GMIT and GRETB offer maths course for second chance admission to GMIT

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board are jointly offering a maths course to CAO applicants who do not achieve the required grade in maths in their Leaving Certificate, giving students a second chance to gain admission to some courses in GMIT.

The course, called Enabling Maths, comprises a preparatory course and an entrance examination based on the Ordinary Level Leaving Certificate syllabus and of a comparable standard to the Ordinary Level LC maths examination. Students who achieve a pass mark in this examination are deemed to have met the minimum mathematics entry requirements for most GMIT programmes. No additional CAO points are awarded.

Autumn at the French Institute

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

The French Institute, established in Galway city for the past 35 years, offers a full range of classes, both online and in-premises. It has a wide array of courses for children (from age four), secondary school students, and adults, both daytime and evenings, starting the week of September 14.

Book now: The Grinds Academy offering one week free trial

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

The Grinds Academy is opening for its 12th year this September and is offering Junior and Leaving Cert students a one-week free trial of a subject of their choice in the location of their choice. Students can choose from English, Irish, or French in Galway city, Claregalway, Athenry, or Caherlistrane in north Galway.

Go with the flow in Athlone this autumn

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

If you think tourism has looked a bit frantic over the summer, a slow break in Athlone could be just the ticket for your autumn break away. Inspired by the River Shannon, lazily meandering south from Lough Ree, Athlone is embracing slow tourism with enthusiasm. River cruises, walking tours, gentle cycling routes, and relaxing spa treatments all play their part in creating the ultimate laid-back holiday experience in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands.

Sport Medicine: How CBD Impacts Athletes in 2020

Wed, Aug 26, 2020

Cannabidiol (CBD) may only have been legalized in 2018, but researchers have been studying this plant-based compound for years. Early research focused on how it can be used to treat rare diseases such as certain types of childhood epilepsy. More recently, studies have begun to focus on how it impacts average consumers and, yes, athletes, and they have begun to turn up plenty of interesting information about how it may help to improve athletic performance.

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Qualify as a SNA in 2020

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

Synergy Lifelong Learning is a special education training company directed by Mairéad McHale. Mairead and team have now opened their classes to learners in the midlands offering QQI level 5 and QQI Level 6 SNA training in Athlone.

Galway’s only 7 day a week and out-of-hours counselling service reopened their doors!

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

Galway’s only 7 day a week and out-of-hours counselling service reopened their doors recently for face-to-face appointments and continues to provide appointments online and by phone.

Gardenwise | What’s In a Name?

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

When I’m discussing planting plans with clients they’re sometimes nonplussed by the botanical names of plants, and it’s hard to blame them - after all, not many of us are familiar with Latin in the twenty first century. There’s a very good reason for using them, though, and it’s not just to baffle you with hard to pronounce tongue twisters.

Gain knowledge and self-confidence with Galway City Community Training Centre

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Galway City Community Training Centre provides early school leavers with the skills, knowledge and self-confidence to gain nationally recognised qualifications and progress to employment, further training and education.

The Training Centre, which is based in the Liosbán Industrial Estate, provides a two-year training course for early school leavers at level three on the National Qualifications Framework.

Loughrea students advance to World F1 in schools finals in Melbourne

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Students from St. Brigid’s College in Loughrea have qualified for the F1 in Schools World Finals in Melbourne next year. Their team ‘Quintolux’ beat off stiff competition to be crowned National Champions in the national finals held earlier this year, as well as winning ‘Best Social Media’ in the competition.

It's wine o'clock somewhere

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Looking for the perfect wine? Look no further than these stylish and trendy new wines which are available exclusively at your local Joyce’s Supermarkets.

Get ready for Nosh & Co's great food

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Nosh & Co brings the very best quality dining to a customer's home or holiday home. Whether it is a dinner party with friends, a family celebration, or a birthday bash Nosh & Co Food Company caters for it all.

IPPM provide physiotherapy consultations in a new way

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Aoife Ni Eochaidh, Chartered Physiotherapist provides face to face, telephone and video call physiotherapy for pelvic floor muscle treatment for bladder and bowel incontinence from her clinic in Suite 14, Bon Secours Consultant Clinic in Renmore, Galway.

She also treats sexual dysfunction, prolapse and post-natal pelvic conditions and Osteoporosis as well. People can choose to have their pelvic physiotherapy consultation with Aoife by telephone phone call, zoom, WhatsApp, skype or facetime consultation or to attend in person. Patients can get a referral from their GP to see Aoife or self-refer themselves.

When Is the Right Time to Travel This Summer?

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

When you’re chomping at the bit to travel abroad and escape the lockdown situation, where should you go, and is it the right time to do so?

Summer is surely a time to get away from it all, decompress, and see new sights. Yet it’s a highly unusual year compared to previous years. Some countries are opening up, but others are closing back down again or tightening restrictions due to the risk of Covid-19.

Gardenwise | Late Summer Blues

Wed, Aug 19, 2020

Nature, for reasons best known to herself, seems to favour shades of yellow and pink. That is, I am sure there are botanists and scientists who know why this is, but I only know that it is so. Check out the wildflowers growing by the roadside or in fields – they are still looking fabulous even in late August here in the west of Ireland – and you’ll see what I mean. There are plenty of pinks, yellows and whites, but apart from the odd vetch scrambling up a blackberry bush, blues are few and far between. And even the vetches are mostly mauvey - purple.

Colleran's Butchers now delivering to Moycullen!

Tue, Aug 18, 2020

Colleran's Butchers has been able to continue providing Galwegians in more than 20 locations throughout the county with premium meats and poultry products right to customers' doorsteps and now, Moycullen has been added to the ever growing delivery list.

Goyas getting creative!

Mon, Aug 17, 2020

From working in the kitchen on her own during lockdown to working out new furniture logistics in order to maintain social distancing, Goyas' owner, Emer Murray, admits the past five months have probably been some of the toughest in which she has been involved since the restaurant opened its doors nearly 30 years' ago.

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