Do you struggle to get good Broadband in your area? Imagine Broadband is the solution you are looking for!

Fri, May 24, 2019

Lack of availability of broadband in rural Ireland is a front and centre issue. It’s gaining particular attention in the run up to the local elections with candidates on doorsteps listing it as a key concern - that is where Imagine comes in.

Some Like it Hot

Fri, May 24, 2019

I’m not given to strong colours inside my home, preferring to keep things calm, neutral and restful (apart from the, ahem, ‘lived in’ clutter that is), but in the garden it’s a different story.

NUI Galway launches two new postgraduate programmes in artificial intelligence

Thu, May 23, 2019

The Minister of State with responsibility for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, visited NUI Galway this week to launch two new master's programmes in computer science - artificial intelligence.

Galway Community College — a dynamic centre for music, theatre, and film

Thu, May 23, 2019

Galway Community College offers a diverse range of performing arts and production courses, which are both long established and instrumental to the development and creativity of the Galway arts community.

The college offers full time QQI Level 5 courses in music, theatre, and TV and film, as well as a Level 6 course in TV presenting, broadcasting, and film production.

Qualify as a secretary in one year at Galway Community College

Thu, May 23, 2019

Galway Community College's legal secretary, medical secretary, and office administrator course is extremely popular due to its continued success rate. Eighty five per cent of its graduates obtain full-time and part-time employment in a legal practice, medical practice, hospital administration, public service, and as office administrators in multinational companies within six months of graduating. The remainder of the students progress to higher education courses in the GMIT and NUIG and apprenticeship programmes.

Spanish courses for children, teenagers, and adults starting in June

Thu, May 23, 2019

The Spanish Institute will run summer courses for children, teenagers, and adults from next month.

Dominican College receives UN flag

Thu, May 23, 2019

The Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Niall Burgess, along with fellow DFA officials John Concannon and Claire Coughlan, and Commandant Colin Campbell of the Irish Defence Forces, recently visited the Dominican College, Taylor's Hill, to present the school with a UN flag as part of the UN's global schools project.

Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre wins Excellence Award 2019

Thu, May 23, 2019

Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre, a Department of Education recognised training institute now in its 32nd year of business, is a quality school with Cambridge Exams Centre recognition, EAQUALS, Quality English, ACELS, and QQI accreditation.

Explore Dublin from Trinity City Hotel

Thu, May 23, 2019

Whether you are planning a romantic break for two, a relaxing trip with friends, or a family adventure, Trinity City Hotel is the perfect city centre base to explore the magic of Dublin by day and relax and recharge by night.

Medieval Galway

Thu, May 23, 2019

This very stylised plan of Galway was made in 1583 by Barnaby Googe and is the earliest surviving map of the city. It shows the walled town as it stood at the end of the medieval period. Galway was packed with houses: the D-shaped circuit of walls with mural towers and gates was complete; there was only one bridge over the fast flowing river, which was also an important salmon fishery, and it possessed a wharf or landing place for ships. The parish church of St Nicholas and the central market place with its market cross were prominent in the townscape, which was structured around the northeast/southwest axis of Shop Street branching into Main Guard Street and High Street/Quay Street.

The ‘blue moonlight’ of Galway 1893

Thu, May 23, 2019

Our Swedish journalist Hugo Vallentin arrived in Galway in the late summer of 1893. He had spent the previous weeks travelling through Dublin, Cork, Killarney and Limerick, assessing people’s reactions to the progress of Gladstone’s Second Home Rule act, which he believed was a question of interest to the whole ‘civilised world’.

The fun, casual, dining experience with Papa'z Bistro!

Thu, May 23, 2019

It is said that we never work a day in our lives if we love our jobs and we are passionate about our work, the results produced are quality. Located on Middle Street, Papa'z Bistro is a place where workers combine passion and skill for cooking to produce some of the tastiest dishes one can sample in Galway.

Medieval Galway

Wed, May 22, 2019

This very stylised plan of Galway was made in 1583 by Barnaby Googe and is the earliest surviving map of the city. It shows the walled town as it stood at the end of the medieval period. Galway was packed with houses: the D-shaped circuit of walls with mural towers and gates was complete; there was only one bridge over the fast flowing river, which was also an important salmon fishery, and it possessed a wharf or landing place for ships. The parish church of St Nicholas and the central market place with its market cross were prominent in the townscape, which was structured around the northeast/southwest axis of Shop Street branching into Main Guard Street and High Street/Quay Street.

The ‘blue moonlight’ of Galway 1893

Wed, May 22, 2019

Our Swedish journalist Hugo Vallentin arrived in Galway in the late summer of 1893. He had spent the previous weeks travelling through Dublin, Cork, Killarney and Limerick, assessing people’s reactions to the progress of Gladstone’s Second Home Rule act, which he believed was a question of interest to the whole ‘civilised world’.

He was not reluctant to express, in forthright terms, his pro-Home Rule sympathies in his articles to his liberal Stockholm newspaper, Aftonbladet. He describes in some detail the poverty that he sees, and criticises British landlords and legislators, who he believed displayed an incredible ignorance of Ireland and its people. But coming to Galway he experiences another shock. Despite the poverty, and the many half-ruined buildings, he is abruptly brought into the new modern age of electricity.

PAIN AFTER SHINGLES CAN LAST FOR YEARS – STUDIES SHOW MICRO-IMMUNOTHERAPY CAN HELP

Wed, May 22, 2019

The most common complication of Shingles is pain, also known as Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PHN) and is due to damage to the skin and nerves after the acute stage of this disease.

‘Go Wild in Galway’ this Saturday 25th May, to celebrate National Biodiversity Week 2019

Wed, May 22, 2019

‘Go Wild’ is back for its fourth year running! This free festival of wildlife brings together a number of local Galway wildlife organisations to help us discover more about the wealth of wildlife on our doorstep.

Top of the Pots

Tue, May 21, 2019

They are the first introduction for many of us, a sort of gateway drug that lures you in and hooks you, so you keep wanting more of them, then different ones, then something else altogether.

People of the Tribes: Meet Dayana.

Tue, May 21, 2019

''My name is Dayana Maltese, I'm from Venezuela but living In Galway for the past 13 years and it has become my home. I am always learning and improving my entrepreneurial skills. For 10 years I owned a Dry Cleaning Business in Renmore called The Laundry Lodge but now I have moved on to set up Sabanero Cheese and with my partner. Making Venezuelan Cheese in Galway is great, we want to give back something good to Ireland. I believe in producing food as our ancestors did for a healthy body free with no regrets.''

Druid, forty years in the lane

Thu, May 16, 2019

Druid Theatre Company was founded in May 1975 with the initial aim of providing theatre entertainment for tourists in Galway. It opened with three full length plays on successive nights in the Jesuit Hall. The season was a success so they made the very brave decision to operate the company on a full-time basis. Their productions were presented on a fit-up basis, as were a number of lunchtime shows in the Fo’Castle in Dominick Street. They converted this latter venue into a fully equipped pocket theatre seating 47 people. It was a popular venue, well supported, but there were problems with regard to backstage, storage, and office space.

A Swedish view of Ireland 1893

Thu, May 16, 2019

Near by the ruins of Menlo Castle, built by the Blake family in 1569, is the village of Menlo, a small attractive cluster of houses, that appear to have grown near each other by accident, as it zigzags down to the river bank. There is no village centre as such, but its very irregularity has made it a desirable place to live. Today it is a prosperous suburb of Galway city.

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