Authors to visit Galway tomorrow to celebrate Irish cheese

Thu, Oct 27, 2011

Enthusiastic foodies Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin have written the definitive guide to the farmhouse cheeses of Ireland, a celebration of cheese and cheesemakers. During Bord Bia's Farmhouse Cheese and Craft Beer Weekend, taking place from today (Thursday) to Monday, they will be out and about, taking part in events and signing copies of their very tasty book. Tomorrow (Friday) from 4.30pm they will be in the Oslo Bar and Microbrewery in Upper Salthill.

Up go those hands again for Galway

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

“Full back is Noel Tierney of sturdy proportions,

‘Amongst Hottentots one would not expect to hear of such an occurrence’

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

When the Kilkenny essayist Herbert Butler came to write about the burning of Bridget Cleary in 1960 he acknowledged that Slievenaman was always known for its mysterious past. Looking across the Tipperary border from his fields, he described it as ‘a pale blue hump with the soft, rounded contours of ancient hills whose roughness have been smoothed away by time. Finn MacCool lived there as did Oisin and Oscar, and 50 beautiful maidens, who gave it its name The Mountain of Women.’ In Bridget Cleary’s time, it was also the home of Denis Ganey, the local herbal doctor, and a man respected and feared for his knowledge of fairylore. It was to this house that Michael Cleary ran to on the afternoon of Thursday March 14 1895. He pleaded for a cure for his wife whom he believed had been taken by the fairies, and replaced by a woman that was not the Bridget Boland he had married.

When he returned to his cottage at Ballyvadlea, with the hill of Tullowcossaun behind it, the house was full of people along with his sick wife. There was her father Patrick Boland, her aunt Mary Kennedy; her four cousins Patrick, Michael, James, and William Kennedy, William Aherne, and the man who first pronounced that Bridget was a fairy ‘changeling’, Jack Dunne.

Flying start for Corrib Boxing and Kickboxing Club

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

Corrib Boxing and Kickboxing Club is situated in Claregalway Corporate Park. Sean and Sinead Cumiskey are the head instructors there, along with several other coaches and a full committee.

Real weight loss with metabolism correction

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

Is your metabolism stopping your weight loss? Do you suffer from any of the following?

Get a better body at Better Body Studio

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

Better Body Studio, located in the heart of Galway city, is Galway’s hottest new health and fitness centre.

Get in shape with aquafit at the Kingfisher

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

Get in shape this winter with low-impact aquafit classes at the Kingfisher Club, Renmore.

Twenty ways to get more from your day

Thu, Oct 20, 2011

1. Take charge of your time. If days just seem to slip away and it is often mid afternoon before you make any headway on your tasks then you are not in control. Begin by monitoring your time, this will help you pinpoint where any problems lie. Get a sheet of paper and make three columns with headings such as Time Started, Activity, and Time Taken. Write down everything you do over a few days.

Blake’s Castle

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

An old Galwegian gave us this interesting study of the bottom of Quay Street, and of Blake’s Castle in particular. Blake’s Cattle was one of a number featured on the 1651 map of Galway. It had at one time belonged to the O’Halloran sept, but then the Anglo-Norman Blake family took it over. It was forfeited by them in 1641 and was granted to a family named Morgan from Monksfield.

‘That is not Bridgie Boland!’

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

On Monday March 4 1895, Bridget Cleary, walked up a hill to Kylenagranagh, the home of her father’s cousin Jack Dunne, who lived with his wife Kate, to sell eggs. The Dunne’s house, less than two miles from her slate-roofed labourer’s cottage at Ballyvadlea, Co Tipperary, was near an ancient circular mound of earth, or a ring fort, still known in rural Ireland as a ‘fairy fort’. Maybe it was because of the location of his house, or because of his skill as a story teller, a ‘Shanachie’, and that he had a limp, that Dunne had the reputation for being ‘an old man who is fairy-ridden’. People believed the local legend that he was once ‘chased up to his home by a man in black, and a woman in white’. He had knowledge of incantations, charms, and spells, and was sometimes consulted for a cure for animal or female sicknesses.

Rejuvenate your skin the natural way

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

As people seek effective ways to rejuvenate mature skin, methods such as micro-needling, also known as dermal rolling, are coming to the fore.

Hair flair

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

Has summer taken its toll on your hair? Fancy giving it a pampering treatment? If so, check out Paul Mitchell’s Awapuhi Wild Ginger hair care range now available at Barry’s Hair Studio at Shop Street.

John Butler launches new cryotherapy spa treatment

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

John Butler Sports Clinic is providing another first in Galway city with its new cryotherapy spa bath, ideal for all active people whatever standard they are performing at.

Tips on mirrors from Collection by Panfili

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

Mirrors are the most powerful tools in making rooms seem larger. They can open up dark corners and not only create illusions of space but also provide optical surprises.

Orsmond Clinic — helping people to make a healthy change to their lives

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

In recent years men’s attitudes towards healthy living has been changing for the better as the link between expanding waistlines and health difficulties such as diabetes, heart complications, and other problems become more apparent.

Traditionally men have often been quite shy about seeking advice on health issues, not knowing where to turn to for the help and motivation they need, and difficulties in finding the appropriate practical advice on healthy eating can lead to many giving up before they have even begun. Receiving the appropriate advice, monitoring, and motivation is particularly vital for men, especially if they have the added complications of obesity and health problems, and this is where The Orsmond Clinic in Oranmore has succeeded, working with clients to change their lives, step by step, for the better.

Eat launches at Massimo

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

Eat, the new gastropub experience, will launch this week at Massimo on William Street.

Shine on

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

For eyes that sparkle, lips that shine and nails that shimmer, try Avon’s limited edition Holiday Sequins and Shine collection.

Perfect scents

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of White Musk, The Body Shop launches White Musk Libertine, a new floral musk and an exciting evolution of the iconic original.

Add a new twist to your workout

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

It is being hailed as the latest fitness must-have and has none other than America’s First Lady Michelle Obama singing its praises.

Cosmedico — a leader in cosmetic surgery

Thu, Oct 13, 2011

Believing that there was a gap in the market for something different, Ailish Kelly and her partners established Cosmedico in Co Wicklow in 2006, and five years later the company is now positioned as a market leader in cosmetic surgery.

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