Transition year: is it a good idea?

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

by Euan Palmer,
TY Coláiste an Eachréidh, Athenry

Deadline extension for primary teaching applicants

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Minister for Education Norma Foley has announced a deadline extension for applicants to primary initial teacher education, having recently announced an historic increase of 610 new course places for the 2023/2024 academic year.

Further Education and Training Centre launches photographic exhibition to celebrate its learners

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

On April 20 the GRETB FET Centre, Tuam Road, Galway is launching Education is Life: A Photographic Celebration which focuses on the incredible diversity of its students. The exhibition is shot by Galway-based photographer Anita Murphy, who creates photographic archives of everyday life.

Students to benefit from new degree programmes outside the CAO system – Naughton

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton has welcomed confirmation from her colleague, Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris, that students in the west will be able to benefit from the introduction of new degrees which will be offered to students outside the traditional CAO system.

A holiday they won’t fur-get as more owners opt to bring their pets

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Brittany Ferries has revealed that 75,000 pets accompanied their owners travelling on their routes in 2022, an increase of almost 40,000 (114%) on the number of pets who travelled overseas with the company in 2021.

Fly with Emirates Airlines and win €1,000

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

There are just two weeks left for one lucky holiday maker to win €1,000 spending money for their trip abroad.

To be in with a chance to win, book with Fahy Travel by April 30, and fly with the award winning carrier Emirates Airlines.

Getting rid of that Easter belly with Educogym Galway

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Do you find yourself carrying extra weight post Easter? Are you looking to get your best summer body?

Accelerated wound healing with hyperbaric oxygenation

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Hyperbaric oxygenation is an effective and scientifically proven treatment for non-healing wounds. It works by exposing the person to increased levels of oxygen in a pressurised chamber, which facilitates the healing process. The increased pressure allows more oxygen to enter the bloodstream and reach damaged tissues, therefore promoting wound healing.

It's time to rethink weight loss

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

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.

Get ready for summer at the Rooftop Garden, Lough Rea Hotel and Spa this weekend

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

The launch of the summer events programme at the spectacular Rooftop Garden will take place this Saturday at the Lough Rea Hotel and Spa starting at 7pm.

Let’s Get Galway Growing

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Community gardens throughout Galway city have been busy over the last few months clearing, planning and starting the planting out of seedlings and seeds for what it is hoped will be another bumper year of produce.

Start saving money and helping the environment with Western Renewables

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

If, like many around, you are seeing the potential benefits of using renewable energy to power your lifestyle, then the team at Western Renewables can guide you through all the options to help you make the transition.

From trams to buses

Thu, Apr 06, 2023

When the Galway-Salthill Tramway ceased trading in 1918, it caused a problem for locals who had been using the service as public transport so a group of local businessmen came together on April 5, 1919 to register The Galway General Omnibus Company Limited as a public company. The directors were Thomas McDonough, Joe Young, Robert Mackie, Michael Crowley, Philip O’Gorman, Martin Hynes and Martin Finan. John Leech was the secretary and Joseph Garvey the manager.

Clutching a candle, Tom Casey withdraws his evidence

Thu, Apr 06, 2023

The horrific Maamtrasna murders, the arrest of 10 men, the rush to ‘justice’, the evidence of the Cappanacrehas (known to be bitter enemies of the murdered Joyces), the two informers Anthony Philbin and Thomas Casey (whose false evidence led to penal servitude for life for five innocent men, and the execution of one innocent man), was followed in minute detail not only throughout Ireland, but in Britain and among the Irish communities in America. Yet nowhere did it impact more than on the mountainside community of Maamtrasna .

About 150 families eked out a living there, many of them inter-related. There was talk of an insufficient investigation, the vengeance of neighbours, the false evidence given in court, innocent men imprisoned, and the whole story of Myles Joyces's last hours filled many of the people with horror and indignation. These feelings were exacerbated by letters from the prisoners protesting their innocence, and their pleadings to have the case re-opened.

An extraordinary confession on the eve of execution

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

The brutal killing of the Joyce family, the subsequent round up of the 10 accused, their trial and the sentencing of three men to hang, while the rest pleaded guilty and faced a life of penal servitude, gripped the public yet again when it had barely recovered from the Phoenix Park murders. In particular the evidence by the Cappanacrehas, and by Philbin and Casey understandably caused deadly resentment in Connemara, which still finds an echo today.

The Galway/ Salthill Tramway

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

The Galway and Salthill Tramway Company was inaugurated in 1877. The Town Commissioners gave the project every encouragement and extended the time limit in which the tracks had to be laid. The single tramline was two and a quarter miles long with eight passing loops, roughly 250 yards apart. The rails were heavy steel, the gauge was three feet wide and the trams were horse-drawn, there was no electricity in Galway for another 12 years or so. The cost of construction was £13,000. The depot was in Forster Street and the western terminus was opposite the Eglinton Hotel.

Galway Community College students participate in Fidelity Investments Ireland's work experience programme Root2STEM

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

Galway Community College students Kateryna Diachenko and Beatriz Viude Castanho engaged thoroughly with the Fastrack into Information Technology, FIT Choose Tech (the national coordinator of tech apprenticeships) programme and embraced the resources provided on the learning platform to further their tech skills.

Qualify as a legal/medical secretary with QQI certification

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

Galway Community College's legal secretary, medical secretary, and office administrator course is extremely popular due to its continued success rate, with 90 per cent of its graduates obtaining full-time and part-time employment in 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 ATU, University of Galway, and apprenticeship programmes.

It is a full-time course qualifying with an office administration award at QQI Level 5. Students obtain the following skillsets: proficient in the usage of software packages such as MS Office Suite, Olympus Audio Transcription, 50 wpm typing speed, and producing legal, medical, and general documents in a range of commonly used business layouts and styles.

GCC further education students engage in Erasmus+ work placements

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

Erasmus+ is an EU programme that can help students to travel to experience work, study, or training in another country. Galway Community College of Further Education (GCC) introduced Erasmus mobilities for students and staff in 2016, giving further education students an opportunity to complete their work experience, a mandatory element of their course, in European countries.

Care About You - providing comprehensive care in the home and community

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

Care About You, with offices in the west, midwest, south, and midlands regions, is an Irish owned care provider offering a full range of assisted living and home care for adults and older people.

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