Competition

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

To be in with a chance to win this prize all you have to do is to answer the question below and send it with your name, address and telephone number to Body Wrap competition, the Mary O’Connor Page, the Galway Advertiser, 41/42 Eyre Square, Galway.

Help your children ward off winter chills

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

Most adults experience an average of two to four colds a year whereas children can experience up to nine. And with more than 200 viruses known to cause a cold it is hardly surprising it makes a return year on year.

The General Post Office

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

Records show that post office business has been conducted in the Eglinton Street area since the 1850s. The Ordnance Survey map of 1872 shows the ‘Postal and Telegraph Office’ in the house at the corner of Francis Street and Daly’s Place, where Emerson & Conway solicitors are today. Prior to 1885, the local postmaster Mr Cornwall provided the premises but, as business expanded, the building became too small. It could not accommodate parcels and a separate outside premises for a parcel office was rented at a cost of £15 a year.

‘A long and dangerous night in Galway’

Thu, Jan 10, 2013

There was a fearful incident at Galway railway station on the evening September 8 1920. A larger crowd than usual waited for the Dublin train. The big story of the day was the Terrance McSweeney hunger strike in Brixton prison. The young Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork was in his second month without food. The people of Ireland, and the Irish across the world, were totally focused on this drama. McSweeney died on October 25 after 74 days. The Dublin papers that evening would have had the latest health reports.

Lunch is for sharing at Lunares

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

It was the end of December with but one day to go till the start of the new year. The house had been hit by a veritable hurricane of small, pink, clothing. The combined forces of Santa and a little girl's December birthday had filled the house with tons of plastic. A previously unknown horror had entered my life, the truly vile invention that is Moon Sand, a force so insidious and evil that I could see no way to defeat it. The children had begun to make the relatively short word 'Mum' into a five to six syllable long whine that was slowly working on my already questionable sanity. And there was another week of this to go before the holidays were over.

Better Bedding sale to help post-Christmas pocket worries

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

As many of us know, Christmas cheer and delightful gifts can be a large expense, and leave us with nothing but flint and fluff in our pockets and wallets. With this in mind, it is a relief to know that the Better Bedding sale will commence today (Thursday), with a vast and beautiful range of household products reduced up to 50 per cent. The sale guarantees 20 per cent off all Respa Irish made beds, 20 per cent off all Truscan Irish made furniture, 25 per cent off all thermal lined curtains, and up to a whopping 50 per cent off selected quilt covers and a selection of readymade curtains.

Solid fuel heating made simple with Stoveman Galway

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

Stoveman Galway has announced that its new solid fuel stove shop is now open in Liosbán Estate, Tuam Road, Galway.

Lose weight with food, exercise, and metabolism correction

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

There are three keys to a genuine weight loss (real fat loss) plan — diet, exercise, and metabolism correction. All three keys interconnect — one will not work without the other.

Transform your body with a revolutionary new treatment

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

Are you fed up of those lumps and bumps? Perhaps you do all the right things and exercise regularly but still cannot banish fat from some areas. Whether abdominal fat, back fat, or other areas, a new treatment available at Therapie Clinic will freeze, break down, and eliminate stubborn fat cells, reducing fat by up to 40 per cent after one treatment.

Cooltec is the new non-invasive treatment that will eliminate stubborn fat cells and help you achieve the perfect shape. This pioneering treatment is exclusive to Therapie Clinics in Ireland and is FDA approved.

How to stop worrying

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

Most of us worry. We worry about major issues such as our health, children, ageing parents, or making ends meet or about minor matters, such as waking up early for work in the morning, getting to the shops before closing time or beating rush hour traffic.

When buses came to Galway

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

The first public transport system in Galway was the horse drawn tramway. It ran until World War I when the British army commandeered most of the horses. By this time motorised transport was also providing competition, and this speeded up the demise of the tram system.

The man who rescued Lancelot from the River Clare

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

One of the most dramatic and legendary events in the history of Irish foxhunting took place with the Galway Blazers on December 19 1953 between Cregg Castle, Corrandulla, and beyond the Clare river, near Anbally. This is great fox hunting terrain. It’s level going, open and free. When on a good scent the hounds will skim the walls, and allow no time for man or beast to make mistakes if they want to stay close to them. December 19 1953 was a clear, frosty day. The hounds were in full pursuit ‘skimming the long low walls the way the swallows do’. After a four mile chase they hit the river Clare about a mile short of the nearest bridge at Corofin village.

When buses came to Galway

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

The first public transport system in Galway was the horse drawn tramway. It ran until World War I when the British army commandeered most of the horses. By this time motorised transport was also providing competition, and this speeded up the demise of the tram system.

The man who rescued Lancelot from the River Clare

Thu, Jan 03, 2013

One of the most dramatic and legendary events in the history of Irish foxhunting took place with the Galway Blazers on December 19 1953 between Cregg Castle, Corrandulla, and beyond the Clare river, near Anbally. This is great fox hunting terrain. It’s level going, open and free. When on a good scent the hounds will skim the walls, and allow no time for man or beast to make mistakes if they want to stay close to them. December 19 1953 was a clear, frosty day. The hounds were in full pursuit ‘skimming the long low walls the way the swallows do’. After a four mile chase they hit the river Clare about a mile short of the nearest bridge at Corofin village.

'It was Christmas day in the workhouse..'

Thu, Dec 27, 2012

Many people will be familiar with the first line of this famous Victorian dramatic monologue, written by the English journalist George R Sims in 1879.

St Mary’s College, 1912 – 2012

Thu, Dec 27, 2012

Our photograph today which shows the beginnings of the construction of St Mary’s College was taken in 1911.

'It was Christmas day in the workhouse..'

Thu, Dec 27, 2012

It is Christmas Day in the workhouse,
And the cold, bare walls are bright

And the cold, bare walls are bright

A wife politely tells her husband to calm down

Thu, Dec 27, 2012

Winston Churchill was 66 years of age when he became prime minister of Great Britain on May 10 1940. It was a moment of extreme crisis in Europe. Belgium, Holland and France were collapsing under the fierce onslaught of the German invasion. A large British army was retreating in the direction of Dunkirk. There was opposition within the government to Churchill.

‘Hopeless but not serious’

Thu, Dec 27, 2012

Eamon De Valera and Winston Churchill were never friends. Famously de Valera had brilliantly defended Ireland's neutrality during World War II following a verbal broadside from Churchill. One can imagine that matters between the two leaders were cool to freezing.

According to Dennis Kelly, a former literary assistant to Churchill, the British prime minister liked to tell the following amusing story: 'British bomber over Berlin, caught in searchlight, flak coming up, one engine on fire, rear-gunner wounded, Irish pilot mutters: Thank God Dev kept us out of the bloody war.'

'Kiss your wife, and you kiss your husband'

Thu, Dec 27, 2012

One of the film highlights of the year for me was Anna Karenina, a British adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's great novel of the same name.

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