Second annual 5k Bay Relay to take place later this month

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

After the success of 2011’s inaugural 5k Bay Relay, Cope Galway and Enable Ireland are joining forces again this year to bring you another 5k Bay Relay on Thursday April 26 at 7pm. This is the first of two relay events for 2012, with the second one taking place in July.

Discover the benefits of reflexology in pregnancy

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

You have more than 7,000 nerve endings in your feet. By working on these nerve endings through reflexology, you can bring your body back into balance.

Style Isle

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Every celebrity stylist that graces the airwaves is an advocate of this. Every woman who has experienced the benefits of this will also tell you how it changed their shape and ultimately created better fit of their outfit. I am also jumping on the bandwagon to tell you all about the importance of one simple thing - underwear. Whether you need it to function as suction (admit it, we all want a bit of this) or you need comfortable support, then there is nothing else like it. Let me pose a question, when we are putting together outfits for an occasion, for arguments sake, how often do we consider the style of our undergarments to compliment the shape of our dress or trousers? The majority would answer very little. So we need to get back to basics, and start with the first layer.

Celebrity styling session at Athlone Towncentre

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Do you have loads of clothes but nothing to wear? Do you feel that your clothes always look better on someone else? Or are you just unsure as to what style suits you?

If you have answered yes to any or all of these questions then keep Saturday April 21 free and make your way to Athlone Towncentre for the celebrity styling event with Celia Holman Lee.

Create a dream nursery with Little Dreamers

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Little Dreamers has created a beautiful environment where you can buy quality nursery furniture and accessories to help you create a delightful nursery for your baby.

Get ready for great outdoors with Green Tree Designs

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Green Tree Designs has a great special offer to get you in the mood for summer — purchase any product over €500 until July 1 and be entered in a draw to win a see-saw.

Up to seventy per cent off fabric rolls this month at La Maison Chic

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

La Maison Chic, known for its wide selection of paint, wallpapers, and designer fabrics, is offering its customers the opportunity to buy fabric on roll with up to 70 per cent off discount. The selection includes damasks and stripes in gold, cappuccino, duck egg blue, navy blue, and baby pink fabrics, perfect for children’s bedrooms or playroom, embroidered silk voile, and more, all at a not-to-be-repeated 70 per cent off. Stock is limited so shop early to avail of the selection while it lasts.

La Maison Chic is now also offering Farrow and Ball paints and wallpapers as well as Zoffany, Little Greene, and Designers Guild paints, so you are bound to find the perfect colour for your home.

Sweet treat

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Brighten up your day by giving your skin a special treat with the Chocolate collection by Organique, the award-winning international organic cosmetics company.

Banish bad hair days

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Bad hair days are the bane of us all but now a new Aldi product promises to help spray them away. People can enjoy clean fresh hair in an instant with Aldi’s Batiste Dry Shampoo (€2.39 ).

Perfect scents

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Remember Opium, that warm oriental Yves Saint Laurent fragrance first marketed in 1977? Its top notes were a mixture of fruit and spices and underlined by a sweet woody base note.

Hats off to style

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Corofin milliner Caithriona King is turning a lot of heads with her stylish hats and head pieces.

Dress for success

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Steilmann is ushering in a fiesta of colour for spring. Crayola-hued dresses are sure winners this season. The bold colours are enhanced by the easy-wear jersey shapes and textures. The perfect pairing of fit and colour.

On the wine shelf

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Ken Forrester Chenin Blanc 2010
(Tesco, €5.49)

Blazers Bar and Bistro at The Ardilaun – the perfect stop with lunch for less

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Blazers Bar and Bistro offers good value in a casual dining setting with personalised service by the team at The Ardilaun, with free parking. Lunches and dinners are now in full swing for the busy tourist season ahead with popular hot dishes of the day available for lunch from just €9.75 seven days a week, along with two and three course value menus from €24 in the evenings. The Ardilaun Bistro is also very child friendly with children’s menus attracting many families.

Value all day at Cafe Zealous

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

Cafe Zealous offers homecooked meals at affordable prices, with breakfast starting at €3.95 and ranging to €7.50 for an all day full Irish breakfast including free tea or coffee. Other breakfast choices include scrambled, poached, or boiled eggs, French toast, and omelettes with your choice of fillings.

The menu also provides daily lunch specials such as the homemade burger, lasagne, chicken curry, and many more, all served with side salad and a choice of baked potato, chips, or homemade wedges for an incredible €7.50. Also on offer is an extensive salad menu at just €7.95 including Caesar, Moroccan chicken, and warm goat’s cheese salads. The homemade soups, which are dairy and gluten free, come served with a selection of bread at €4.50.

Peppino’s Italian restaurant, Spiddal

Thu, Apr 19, 2012

I mentioned in a previous article that it I am amazed that during such recessionary times we see so many new restaurants opening, and fair play to all who do so. Peppino’s is one such venture, and it has risen from the ashes of the very well known Bol Uisce in Spiddal’s main street. The new owners are experienced in the business of providing Italian food at Il Foletta in Quay Street. Now they have two restaurants to run and while both are Italian the new Peppino’s offers a more varied menu. Maybe it is because better rents can be negotiated, but whatever the reason you have to admire and congratulate all who open a new restaurant. It brings money to an area in all manner of ways, jobs for chefs, kitchen porters, waiting staff, someone will get paid to do a website, painters, electricians, plumbers, gas engineers, waste companies, oil, etc, etc. So when you see a new venture in your area be sure to support it.

Eugene Daly, survivor of the Titanic

Thu, Apr 12, 2012

Eugene Daly was a 29-year-old weaver in Athlone Woollen Mills who decided to leave his job and go to America. He paid £6-19 for a third class ticket and boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. He was a piper and played native airs on board the tender on the way out to the liner. One of the survivors later sourly noted, “Looking astern from the boat deck, I often noticed how the third-class passengers were enjoying every minute of the time, a most uproarious skipping game of the mixed double was the great favourite whilst “in and out and roundabout” went a man with his bagpipes playing something that ‘faintly’ resembled an air.”

White Star chairman J Bruce Ismay finds peace in the west

Thu, Apr 12, 2012

On that terrible cold night of April 14 1912, in the North Atlantic, the Titanic was sinking head first into a freezing, calm sea. It had struck an iceberg 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. And was fatally wounded. The incessant bip bip bip SOS call for help from the wireless telegraphist Jack Phillips and his assistant Harold Bride was interspersed with more dramatic calls for help: “We are putting passengers off in small boats. Women and children in boats, cannot last much longer”.

The Lobster Pot at Galway Bay Hotel

Thu, Apr 12, 2012

There was a time when it would be normal to eat dinner at the local hotel or if staying there, to eat-in each night. In fact for many towns in Ireland the only place to eat was the local hotel. All that changed in the seventies and eighties with the growth of cafes, restaurants and the new kid on the block - bar food. The change in attitude to hotel food is something that hotel owners must struggle with daily as they try to get the seats filled in the dining room. There are of course many exceptions to this and one I really recommend that you try at the earliest opportunity is The Lobster Pot restaurant in the Galway Bay Hotel in Salthill.

Happy products for happy people

Thu, Apr 12, 2012

Home Gallery has recently announced the arrival of Pip Studio to its Dundrum, Galway and Ennis stores. The brand, famous for its happy products for happy people tagline, has become extremely popular throughout the UK, Europe and more recently Australia. To celebrate the arrival of Pip Studio, Home Gallery is offering a free Pip Studio carrier bag for everyone who spends €30 or more on the Pip Studio range. This could mean the perfect gift for someone special or a special treat just for you.

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