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

Thu, May 03, 2018

What foods turn off your metabolism? The Health and Nutrition Coach offers blood analysis to help you find out.

Pregnancy and chiropractic care

Thu, May 03, 2018

Chiropractic care has been proven time and time again as an effective tool to combat the stresses of everyday life. When a woman becomes pregnant there are significant additional stresses placed on her body, which leads to a large number of pregnant women suffering from unnecessary pain and discomfort.

Sleep healthier with Better Bedding

Thu, May 03, 2018

To fully protect your mattress use Protect-A-Bed mattress encasement available from Better Bedding, Sean Mulvoy Road, Galway. The AllerZip mattress protectors give you complete mattress protection for a healthy, allergy-free, sleep zone. The three-sided zipper and AllerZip seal gives you total protection against dust mites, allergens, and bed bugs. AllerZip mattress encasement is completely bed bug entry, escape, and bite proof. It is a barrier for allergens, dust mites, pet dander, pollen, and mold.

The AllerZip mattress encasement provides your whole family with a clean and healthy sleeping environment. The smooth surface is waterproof and stainproof, featuring an innovative Miracle Membrane. Liquids and stains stay out, yet the state-of-the-art AllerZip mattress protector remains breathable and comfortable, providing excellent protection against incontinence and bed wetting. It is breathable, waterproof, machine washable, and tumble dry ready.

Your vision is precious — protect your eyes from the sun

Thu, May 03, 2018

We protect our skin from the harmful rays of the sun, however we often neglect our eyes. Ultraviolet radiation can cause adverse effects to our eyes. Studies have suggested that prolonged exposure to UV rays can cause increased risk of macular degeneration of the retina (AMD), cataract of the intraocular lens, corneal damage, and ocular adnexal (conjunctival or eyelid) melanomas.

What is candida?

Thu, May 03, 2018

Candida is a yeast normally found in certain parts of our body such as mouth, intestines, and vagina. Recently scientists have discovered it living normally, without causing problems, in our eyes. If our immune system is working normally candida does not cause us any problems; on the contrary it helps with our digestion and nutrition and vitamin absorption. It is only if it starts to overgrow and turn into a fungal infection that it can start causing symptoms.

Fix your metabolism to burn that stubborn fat for long term weight loss

Thu, May 03, 2018

With total focus on fixing your metabolism, System 10 can 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.

East Galway GPs open new premises

Thu, May 03, 2018

Dr Aaron Brennan, Dr Aileen Faherty, and Dr John Morris have announced the opening of their new surgery, Galway East Medical Practice, on the Doughiska Road. Continuing their work together, and combining their respective areas of expertise, these young doctors are committed to providing a compassionate and expert service to both new and existing patients from their new and well equipped premises.

Quality furniture and more at Seymours Loughrea

Thu, May 03, 2018

Popular furniture retailer Seymours Loughrea offers a superb selection of furniture, carpets and rugs, sliding wardrobes, beds, and wood flooring from all the leading brand names. The company is celebrating four years in business in May.

The company offers a wide range of carpets and with styles, fibres, and textures available to suit any home and budget. Wood floors are a speciality, with more than 100 wood floors on display in store. Vinyl flooring is also available.

City event hears of the benefits of growing and foraging your own food

Thu, May 03, 2018

More than 50 attendees learned how to grow food in small spaces, and find food in wild places, at a seminar in the Harbour Hotel last week. Speakers Mark Ridsdill-Smith of Vertical Veg (UK), and Kathleen McMahon of Blackriver Wild Foods in Headford, shared their vast experience of growing food in small gardens and balconies, and identifying edible berries and plants growing in the wild around Galway.

The sky's the limit in Toronto

Thu, May 03, 2018

A short break in Toronto is unlike anywhere else. Known as Canada's downtown, it is bursting with things to do — and shopping comes top of the list.

The dredging of the river

Thu, May 03, 2018

The main channel discharging all the water from loughs Corrib and Mask is the Galway River, flowing from Lough Corrib through the city to the sea. Among the structures built in 1850 and the following years, during the course of a drainage scheme carried out by what was then known as The Board of Public Works in Ireland, was the main regulating weir across the Corrib at Waterside. Its function was to control the river level at Galway in the interests of draining, milling, and navigation. It was built at a point in the river where the water descended though rapids.

Liam Mellows - Down and Out in New York

Thu, May 03, 2018

Week II
While many of the 700 volunteers who came out in County Galway during the Easter Rising, were being rounded up and shipped off to prison in England, their leader Liam Mellows managed to slip away to Liverpool dressed as a priest. From there he managed to work his passage to America.

Top tips for avoiding holiday scams

Thu, May 03, 2018

May has arrived and Galway is still experiencing dreadful bouts of rain, wind, and cold.

Weed wars

Mon, Apr 30, 2018

How can you tell when spring has arrived? Easy – you will know when the weeds start growing! As spring has been unusually late this year, growth has been very slow to start, but everyone is quickly making up for lost time. If you can get on top of weeds in the garden around now, you will save yourself a lot of time and energy later on.

People of the Tribes : Meet Cian.

Fri, Apr 27, 2018

Hi, I'm Cian. I'm a 20-year-old singer-songwriter from Galway city and I've been busking for about three years. My songs are heavily lyrics-based, acoustic indie-folk. I've been studying poetry this year as part of my college course (Arts with Creative Writing) so that's kinda tied in with the songwriting...i.e. I've been able to write songs and call them poems. I'm mainly influenced by Irish singer-songwriters in the same genre - the likes of Damien Rice, Fionn Regan and Dermot Kennedy...anyone that writes nice folk-y, story songs. I'll be busking and gigging around Galway all summer and although I've got a decent body of songs written, I'm picky enough to have not put any of them online yet...I'll be throwing some videos up online in the next few months but I'm not sure exactly when I'll be recording and releasing them properly yet.

Upskill with a QQI Level 5 bookkeeping award (Sage 50)

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

GPA Solutions is delivering its manual and computerised bookkeeping course to provide learners with good basic knowledge of manual bookkeeping and the practical knowledge of the workings of Sage 50 accounts.

Learners who successfully complete this course will acquire a thorough knowledge of what is required to set up and process the Sage 50 accounts package. Learners will learn how to process business documents and transactions in addition to understanding the procedures involved in completing VAT returns, bank reconciliations, customers and suppliers reports, and profit and loss accounts.

A career as a driver of chemical and dangerous goods

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

We are all familiar with oil trucks and vans driving around the countryside. However we may not realise that some trucks are carrying dangerous goods, ie, chemicals, gases, flammable liquids, infectious substances, radioactive material, or corrosive substances. Strict regulations apply to the drivers of these trucks. They must be trained and certified as ADR drivers. ADR is the name given by the EU to the transport of dangerous goods, and these regulations go back as far as 1957.

Summer courses for adults and secondary school students at the French Institute

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Would you like to make the most of the long summer days while learning, refreshing, or practising your French?

Pharmacy sales and retail skills course starting soon at the GRETB Training Centre

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

CEO of Retail Excellence Ireland Lorraine Higgins recently addressed a group of learners attending the GRETB Training Centres retail sales course on the importance of the retail industry in Ireland today.

As the retail sector currently contributes €7 billion per annum to the exchequer Ms Higgins outlined the challenges facing this sector, challenges such as online sales, cheap imports, rising business costs, and a shortage of suitably qualified staff.

Thousands of pupils to take part in Tech Week

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

National and secondary schools throughout Galway will take part in Tech Week, Ireland’s national festival of technology, next month between April 22 and 28. Ireland’s national festival of technology is aimed at sparking an interest in technology and related study and careers among students, parents and the public. This exciting week of events will see more than 100,000 students take part in a range of fun activities, including the finals of several national Tech Week events. School students will be challenged on their computational thinking skills at the National Bebras final in NUI Maynooth on Saturday, April 21, and coding projects will be showcased by school children in the Scratch Programming Final in UL on Wednesday, April 25. Speaking at the launch of Tech Week 2018, Minister of State for Training, Skills and Innovation, John Halligan said: “The Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation is delighted to support Tech Week through Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme. All young people love science and finding out how things work. Tech Week is aimed at stimulating children’s natural curiosity and encouraging them to explore, discover and develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. "It provides hands-on opportunities for young people to learn about how computing and related technologies are shaping every area of life. With the European Commission estimating that 90 per cent of tomorrow's jobs will require digital skills; we need to ensure that Ireland is at the forefront of this transformation. We must be a leader in developing and nurturing STEM talent.”

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