Anti-cancer health and wellness retreat in May

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

Sota Health and Wellness is a luxurious five star sanctuary of wellness, vitality, and rejuvenation set in a scenic and tranquil setting overlooking Kilcolgan Weir estuary and Kilcolgan Castle. This luxury health and wellness retreat is one of the most comprehensive, educational, inspiring, life transformative programmes available in Europe.

On May 11 and 12 it will host an inspiring, pampering, and educational two days guiding, motivating, and coaching you towards your health goals. Everyone attending the retreat will receive an individualised tailored plan specific to his/her health goals. This is unique to Sota Heath and Wellness. This is an all inclusive package consisting of juicing workshops, raw food demonstrations, vegetarian cookery classes, positive thinking workshops, indulging full body massage or reflexology included in package, delicious organic raw/vegan breakfast, lunch, and dinner, alkalising juices made specific to your health needs, one to one support from detox manager Yvonne Duffy O’Shaughnessy, self empowerment seminars, herbal remedies and teas specific to your health concerns, wheat grass and aloe vera shots, colon cleansing supplements, and life coaching, all while unwinding and relaxing in the elegance and opulence of Sota Health and Wellness Retreat.

Improve your life by changing your posture

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

When you look in the mirror what do you see? An upright person with perfect posture or a stooped individual with hunched shoulders and drooping chin who looks years older than his/her age?

Kevin Faller, Galway poet

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

Kevin Faller was born in the Crescent in 1920. His father was John Patrick Faller and his mother was Madeleine Quinn from Tuam. They both died within six months of each other when Kevin was very young, so he and his brother Liam were brought up by their grandfather Stephen Faller. Kevin’s aunt Minnie, who was married to Nicholas O’Halloran, also helped to rear him.

‘No cheering crowds, no military parades, no public holidays’

Thu, Apr 25, 2013

On December 7 1922, less than eight months after the Kilmilkin battle, Pádraic Ó Máille TD and his friend Sean Hales TD of Cork, walked out of a hotel on Ormonde Quay, by Dublin’s river Liffy. They just had lunch, and were on their way back to the Dáil in Leinster House, a short drive away. Ó Máille, Galway city and Connemara’s first TD, had been appointed Leas Ceann Comhairle (deputy speaker). As they reached their car a gunman stepped forward and opened fire. Both men were hit, but Hales was bleeding profusely. Although seriously injured Ó Máille managed to get Hales into the car and drove to the nearest hospital, where he collapsed. Hales was dead..

The shoe edit

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

I am in the leather goods capital of the world right now — Italy. Bags, shoes, wallets, and belts, you name it, Italy has it in the highest quality leather. So there is no better time to talk about my favourite thing, surrounded by the best in the world — shoes.

Award-winning designers at the Galway Hat Shop

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Winner of 2013 Milliner of the Year Award, Martha Lynn, will be showcasing her creations all this week at the Galway Hat Shop. The annual Golden Egg Fashion Innovation Awards were held in the Radisson Blu Hotel where leading designers and fashion students showcased their work all hoping to win one of the prestigious awards.

Enjoy great hair days at Cilla's Hair Flair

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Cilla's Hair Flair, located in Queen B (beside Mocha Beans), Liosban Estate, Tuam Road, Galway, opened in March with Priscilla Fahy at the helm.

Gustav’s spring summer collection at Kilkenny

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

This season Danish fashion powerhouse Gustav brings you fashion to gush over with its stunning new spring summer range, available now in Kilkenny shops in Dublin, Galway, and Cork.

Aniar wins Best Restaurant in Galway at Santa Rita Irish Restaurants Awards

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Aniar has been crowned winner of Best Restaurant in Galway at the Connacht regional final of the Santa Rita Irish Restaurant Awards 2013. The awards, which took place in The House Hotel in Galway last week, named the top restaurants in Connacht for 2013.

Ireland’s leading chefs to gather at the g Hotel for the 2013 David Gumbleton Memorial Award

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

The g, one of Ireland’s leading five star hotels, will host a gala dinner to announce this year’s recipient of the David Gumbleton memorial prize. The award, which is in its seventh year, was created in memory of David Gumbleton, one of Australia’s brightest culinary stars, who passed away in 2004. The g’s relationship with David Gumbleton began at the original launch of the hotel.

Delicious dining at the Bridge Mills Restaurant

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Located in one of Galway's old and beautifully renovated buildings, the Bridge Mills Restaurant is on the banks of the Corrib just across O’Brien’s Bridge. After a 15 year absence it is back in the hands of previous owners Frank and Ellen Heneghan, also of Heneghan Florist, for almost a year now.

The House Hotel to launch new cocktail menu in style this evening

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

The House cocktail mixologists have been beavering away for a few weeks now and have crafted a new cocktail menu for your delectation.

Casual Italian dining with a twist at Renzo

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Renzo Gallery Café is an Italian-style café located just off Eyre Square on Eyre Street beside Debenham’s.

First Clare Garden Festival to take place later this month

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

At the newly established Clare Garden Festival, which will be held on the last Sunday in April, visitors can expect an impressive programme of expert talks, a great garden, an artisan food fair with stallholders from all over Ireland, music, children's gardening and entertainment, and a gardeners’ raffle in aid of Clare Crusaders.

Combat depression with Care Cure acupuncture

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Depression can be a particularly sensitive condition. If you have never experienced mental illness, it can be all too easy to dismiss this crippling condition as someone’s bad day. Depressed individuals typically suffer from insomnia, crying spells, anxiety, worry, poor memory, lack of interest, and stomach disturbances.

Roy Keane seeks Galwegians to help Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Irish soccer legend Roy Keane is calling on Galwegians to take part in the 11th Annual Shades fundraiser for Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind.

Eight ways to beat fatigue

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

1.Try to get a good night’s sleep. It rejuvenates the mind and body. Many people who complain of tiredness are not sleeping enough. Persistent lack of sleep leads to fatigue, irritability, tension and inefficiency.

Do not go too bed either too full or hungry as both may cause physical discomfort making it difficult to sleep through the night. Be sure to exercise regularly and get some fresh air. Research indicates that people who get adequate natural daylight tend to sleep better at night. Experts say natural light can be up to 30 times more intense than the brightest artificial light. Our biological clocks need daylight to trigger the melatonin which helps us to sleep.

Walking the Prom

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Towards the end of the 19th century, tourism interests in Galway used to advertise the Promenade as a place unrivalled in the country, where one could take the healthy invigorating salt air like nowhere else. In those times, it was just a narrow crooked roadway, very rough and untarred, and the footpath seemed to extend from Palmer’s Rock to roughly opposite the entrance to Rockbarton, if one is to judge from how it finishes in the foreground of our photograph, which was taken c1890. The road was known as the Lower Sea Road. The houses in the background are Belmore, owned by McDonoughs; Brinkwater, owned by Maurice De Courcey Dodd; and Maretimo, owned by the O’Beirne family.

A thankless and a dangerous job

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Week II
In the early hours of April 23 1921 one of the IRA guards on duty at the house of Pádraic Ó Máille TD, at Kilmilkin, about six miles on the Leenane road from Maam Bridge, saw a movement in the distance. He could just about make out that a large group of men was approaching

The catwalk look

Thu, Apr 11, 2013

Being a fashion week regular, I am very lucky to see, first hand, what we can expect from trends to colours, a season in advance. Back in September I sat at numerous shows including Issa, John Rocha, and Topshop Unique, getting the lowdown on spring summer 2013. Now that it is here, I have seen all those trends like monochrome and sports luxe translate to the high street. But let’s start at the beginning and take a closer look at those who create the trends we now find in our wardrobes.

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