Get moving with Salsa Bay Galway

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

If you missed social interaction and exercise during the months of lockdown, Salsa Bay Galway has great news for you - new regular indoor classes start next Monday, October 4 in the Commercial Boat Club in Galway city centre, and there is still time to join.

Achieve your fitness goals with All Core Gym

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

All Core Gym Health and Fitness, Parkmore, provides the health, fitness, and maintenance for everyone, young and old, to stay optimally healthy and strong. It offers a full gym and workout service for all clients who wish to avail of it.

Acupuncture for long Covid symptoms

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

Many people are now experiencing long-term effects of Covid-19, suffering from lingering and debilitating symptoms often for months after their initial infection. Symptoms include fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, brain fog, headaches, sinus congestion, racing heartbeat, neurological symptoms, shortness of breath, and muscle pain.

Get faster weight loss results with Kingfisher Milon

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

Kingfisher Milon guarantees faster weight loss in less time, encouraging 15 times more fat burning than regular fitness training in a regular gym.

Augustus John’s cartoon of Galway

Wed, Sep 29, 2021

Augustus John was one of the great painters of the last century. He knew and painted many of the most famous people of his time, including prominent figures of the Irish Literary Revival such as Yeats, Seán O’Casey, and George Bernard Shaw.

Despite harrowing beginnings, the Irish in America are a success story

Wed, Sep 29, 2021

In the 1860s, 20 years after Charles Dickens expressed his disgust at the living conditions in the vastly over-crowded tenements of New York’s ‘Five Points’, in Lr East Side, the situation simply got worse.

McDonagh family take to the road to celebrate the producers behind Supermac's success

Tue, Sep 28, 2021

The team at Supermac’s are passionate about their great tasting fresh Irish food, and their farmers and suppliers who supply their best produce. The suppliers have become friends of Pat and Una McDonagh’s over the years. They are keen to share stories of their produce and products, and the McDonaghs are proud that more than 500 suppliers and thousands of farm families throughout the country play a key role in delivering delicious produce to Supermac's every day.

NUI Galway Students’ Union launch Walktober Step Challenge

Mon, Sep 27, 2021

NUI Galway Students’ Union this morning launched the Walktober Step Challenge to encourage staff and students to walk and build up to 10,000 steps per day by the end of October.

Are you making these mistakes as a runner?

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

It is far too easy to get things wrong when training. Find out about the five common training mistakes made by runners and train smart.

Celebrating five years in business with a fresh approach

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

The pandemic has altered life as we know it, in some cases, for the better. Busy mum of four, Galway trainer, nutrition therapist, and women’s health expert Jess Keniston, has worked to make healthy living easier, whatever the restrictions.

Hustle Fitness comes to Galway

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

What started off as simply filling a gap in the market, has now turned into an amazing, supportive fitness community.

G Conboy Electrical – for all your electrical needs

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

G Conboy Electrical, New Road, Galway, offers a call out service and repairs to appliances in your home.

Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre to hold open day on September 28

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

Bridge Mills Galway Language Centre, Galway's oldest language school and a Department of Education recognised training institute, now in its 34th year of business, will hold an open day on September 28. The centre welcomes anyone interested in studying with it to drop by, where the team will have information on the foreign language programme, TEFL courses, and English language classes.

Galway Executive Skillnet launches autumn training schedule

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

Galway Executive Skillnet (GES) has launched its autumn training schedule with some exciting new programmes to help businesses emerge “from survival to growth” post-Covid.

Achieve an internationally recognised computer qualification

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

GRETB Training Centre is now offering a fully funded International Computer Driving Licence course (ICDL).

Pharmacy retail counter assistant course with GRETB Training Centre

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

A pharmacy retail counter assistant course, that is exempt from course fees, will be starting soon at the GRETB Training Centre in Mervue, Galway.

New dog grooming course launches at GTI

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

Galway Technical Institute is the largest and longest established college of further education in the west of Ireland, catering for up to 2,000 students annually both full and part-time.

With 45 full-time courses to choose from GTI provides the launch pad for hundreds of learners each year to enter the workplace, start an apprenticeship, or progress to further and higher education.

New Aran Food Tour launched for autumn

Thu, Sep 23, 2021

Aran Island Ferries has welcomed the announcement of a new Aran Food Tour, created by Aran Goats Cheese producer Gabriel Faherty. The new Aran Food Tour is available to book online at www.arangoatcheeseandfoodtours.com.

The Industrial School Band

Wed, Sep 22, 2021

In 1852, Fr Peter Daly purchased the estate of Kilcorkey from the Encumbered Estates Court. The owner of an adjoining site subsequently disputed his title to a particular plot and brought proceedings against him. Peter Daly, however, proceeded to construct on the plot in question a building he described as "A Benevolent Home for aged respectable females whose circumstances would render them unable to afford themselves a comfortable home". An attempt was made to settle the case out of court but it failed and, in court, judgment was given for the plaintiff Miss Grattan Esmonde. She was given possession of the house in August, 1863.

The American Civil War helped the Irish find acceptence

Wed, Sep 22, 2021

When Charles Dickens first visited the United States in January 1842, the popularity of his books was such that he was mobbed by adoring crowds, feted and dined as the major celebrity that he undoubtedly was, and was guest of honour at a famous Valentine’s Ball in New York attended by 3,000 of the city’s great and good.

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