How pack like a pro

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Are you going on a summer holiday soon? The key to successful packing is to choose key pieces and work around then. A little planning will bring you a long way. Consider what you are going to do during your holiday, how often you with be going sightseeing, outings, relaxing by the beach, and decide on simple, versatile looks.

Father’s Day at Born Clothing

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Born Clothing is for men too, don’t forget! With Father’s Day this Sunday, June 17, we will sort out your gift buying woes whether it is for your father, your husband, or your boyfriend with our wide menswear selection. Within our trendy Jack & Jones section, why not try the popular Mooty original jeans at €49.95 or the latest light wash Vice original flares at €59.95 with one of our fashionable premium shirts starting at €39.95. Or for the more casual guy, why not pick him up one of our great polo shirts in a wide range or styles and colours starting at €17.95. Don’t forget ladies, our men like to be cool too, so for that reason make the most of our excellent promotion getting Jack & Jones flip flops at half price when you pick up a pair of fab board shorts.

Room outside at The Boutique Kitchen

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness simply did not know where to go shopping. The women of Galway know that happiness is available to purchase in sizes small, medium, or large at Born in Newtownsmith, not least of all because of The Boutique Kitchen, the in-store cafe where you can fortify yourself for a day's shopping with breakfast, beverages, and brownies without needing to leave this shopping haven.

B&Q launches nationwide sunflower giveaway to get children growing

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

This Saturday (June 16) will see B&Q stores across Ireland take part in a great sunflower grow as they give away free sunflower plants to children and parents in a bid to get kids in the garden and growing.

The future is growing

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

The future is growing, whether it be your own little herb garden in the kitchen or back garden shed, or a full grown vegetable plot in the local allotment or again in the back yard, the Grow Shop is here to help.

Twenty ways to help get your toddler to sleep

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

1. Do not be tempted to use bed or bedtime as a punishment. This will only reinforce the message that bed and bedtime is a separation from loved ones and fun. Do not even suggest this indirectly by saying, “You must be tired or you would not be so cranky”.

Galway University Hospitals to meet waiting list targets

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Galway University Hospitals is set to meet its target of a nine month waiting list for adult inpatients and a 20-week waiting time for children by September.

Moycullen Riding Centre

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Moycullen Riding Centre is situated just a few miles from the city of Galway in Poulnaclough, Moycullen.

Lose two stone in ten weeks with diet, exercise, and metabolism correction

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

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.

Yoga for children

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Galway Yoga Kids Camp provides a safe and nurturing environment where your children can strengthen their sense of confidence, focus, breath, creativity, physical awareness, and appreciation of their whole being through yoga, movement, music, and art.

Acupuncture to assist fertility

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Acupuncture is one of the fertility treatments being sought by a growing number of women who are not able to get pregnant using more conventional methods.

Are you tired of being tired? What are your eyes telling you?

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Do you feel tired all the time? Your body needs detoxing, superfoods, and balanced nutrition. A four-week vitality programme is offered by Yvonne Duffy O’Shaughnessy at Health and Herbs including juice therapy, correcting your diet, and detoxing your bowel, liver, and kidneys in order to get back the boundless energy you once had.

St Bridget’s Terrace, one hundred years ago

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

This aerial photograph of the top of Prospect Hill (which was originally known as St Bridget’s Hill) and the beginnings of Bohermore was taken in the 1950s and was given to us by Fr Des Forde. On the left you can see part of the old County Buildings. The terrace we see to the right of our picture is St Bridget’s Terrace. Before the terrace was built, it was the site of two large reservoirs which were constructed in 1868 to supply water to the city. Water was pumped up from the Dyke Road to these reservoirs by pumps situated in the lane in the centre of our photograph, which was known as Pumpeen Lane.

A bizarre meeting on the Galway train

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Week III

Promised regional paediatric diabetes posts remain unfilled

Thu, Jun 07, 2012

A call has been made for the HSE West to make additional nursing and dietician support available to enable children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes receive insulin pump treatment at University Hospital Galway.

Juice therapy workshop

Thu, Jun 07, 2012

Learn how much, how often and what juices work best for what at a juice therapy workshop at Health and Herbs, Sea Road, Galway, on Wednesday June 6, from 7pm to 8.30pm.

Taking years off your appearance

Thu, Jun 07, 2012

When you look in the mirror are you happy with the reflection that stares back at you? Or do you feel you look older than your years, perhaps clinging steadfastly to an outdated image?

Our Lady’s Boys Club

Thu, May 31, 2012

Our photograph today is of a 1950s soccer team representing Our Lady’s Boys Club, taken in Terryland where facilities were quite primitive at the time and, as you can see, the preferred mode of transport apart from shank’s mare was cycling. The team is, back row, left to right: Patsy Burke, Richie O’Connor, Brod Long, Brendan Dowling, Paddy Power, Tommy Carr, Paddy Beatty. In front are Danny Collins, Billy Carr, John Rushe, Steve Mannion, Gus O’Connor, and Barney Birkett.

The case of the Craughwell Prisoners

Thu, May 31, 2012

In the 1880s the Land War was at its height. It was a prolonged period of bitter civic unrest which pitted an unprotected peasantry against some ruthless landlords, who had the law and power of eviction at their disposal. Following the Great Famine a weakened tenant peasantry was easily removed from the land. It began a pitiful trail to the workhouse, and the emigrant ships. But as the century progressed the situation changed. The highly organised Irish National Land League supported evicted farmers; while members of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Westminster fought for legislation which would eventually see a redistribution of land to tenants.

Legislative development, however, would take years. There were other weapons which supported the tenant in the meantime. Secret societies, such as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the‘ White Boys’ and many others, exerted huge pressure on the people to resist rent increases, and to remain silent as to its membership. An effective weapon was boycott. A landlord who was boycotted meant that he could not buy food locally, and his domestic and estate staff would leave him. Animals were sometimes maimed, or released to wander the roads. Walls were knocked, hay barns set alight. He could apply for police protection, and with difficulty, have food brought to him from outside his area. John W Lambert of Aggard House, the owner of an estate of 3,440 acres, had a grave dug in front of his house as a warning. He was boycotted

Coping with life’s pressures

Thu, May 31, 2012

What sort of things put you under pressure? Paying bills, lack of job security, traffic congestion, family rows?

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