Ireland’s Remedial Therapist of the Year lives in Galway

Thu, Apr 20, 2023

Galway-based massage therapist Giada Labrecque has been named Ireland’s Remedial Therapist of the Year for 2023 in the Travel & Hospitality Awards.

Join System 10’s six-week programme and lose 14lb of body fat

Thu, Apr 20, 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.

Reduce and eliminate symptoms of long Covid

Thu, Apr 20, 2023

A growing number of people continue to experience long-term symptoms of Covid-19, known as long Covid. Symptoms include breathlessness, fatigue, brain fog and other immune system issues. Hyperbaric oxygenation has been identified as a positive treatment for long Covid, allowing people to regain their quality of life.

Hyperbaric oxygenation increases the amount of oxygen that enters the bloodstream and helps reduce inflammation and improve the body’s ability to heal itself. Studies have shown that hyperbaric oxygenation helps to reduce and eliminate symptoms associated with long Covid.

‘Ghosts should be laid peacefully to rest, and wrongs righted’

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Week VI
The alleged mastermind for the Maamtrasna murders was pointed out to Harrington. When he met this mysterious man he was coming out of one of his fields, bent under a big 'brath' of grass.

Aidan Heffernan, a sporting champion

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

Aidan was one of 13 children born to John and Lena Heffernan who lived in 143 Bohermore. John was originally from Lower Salthill and worked in the ESB. Aiden went to school in St Patrick’s and later to Moneenageesha.

Transition year: is it a good idea?

Thu, Apr 13, 2023

by Euan Palmer,
TY Coláiste an Eachréidh, Athenry

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.

“Minister Harris has confirmed to me that four degrees, in science, engineering, business and nursing, will be on offer to students in the region this year without the necessity of having to go through the CAO process," the Government Chief Whip and Galway West TD said. "It is a welcome development that will see many who do not necessarily thrive in the gruelling CAO process still being able to avail of a degree.”

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.

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 working in the electrical industry for more than 20 years the team have seen how renewable energy is evolving, and they have the solutions to help save you money and reduce your carbon footprint.

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.

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