Explore Galway Bay and the Aran Islands with Atlantic Way Sailing

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

If you want to enjoy a memorable experience why not get on down to the Galway Harbour and hop on board Ireland's largest passenger sailing yacht, the Atlantic Blue.

Enjoy the benefits of a juice detox with Me2UFitness

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

Do you feel sluggish, stressed, or unhappy about your health and appearance? A juice detox will jump start your weight loss, increase your energy levels, clear your mind, and improve your overall health.

Yo!Fit – leading personal trainer and yoga teacher join forces to create exciting new exercise concept

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

Two of Galway’s most experienced health and fitness professionals have teamed up to create an exercise class combining the best of fitness training and yoga. Personal trainer Sarah Thornton and yoga teacher Laragh Cunningham are behind Yo!Fit, a custom-designed programme they guarantee will switch on both body and soul.

George Nicolls, c1887-1942

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

George Nicolls (Seoirse Mac Niocall) was born in Dublin but his professional career brought him to Galway town, where he worked as a solicitor and coroner for the West Riding District of the county. A committed nationalist, he became involved with Sinn Féin in 1907 and also served as president of the county board of the GAA. Nicolls was the IRB Centre for Galway town. On November 31 1913, he presided over a meeting in the Town Hall, for the purpose of formally establishing the Irish Volunteers in the county, and subsequently chaired the ‘monster public meeting’ in the Town Hall on December 10, at which 600 individuals signed up for the Volunteers. Nicolls also established a pipe band (Cumann Píobairí na Gaillimhe), where all but three were IRB members. It toured the county, playing at events such as GAA matches and concerts, which provided opportunities to recruit new members.

A family visit to Ros Muc

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

I have been asked how did Pádraig Pearse travel to Ros Muc in the first place, surely it was a burdensome task to get there from Dublin. He had no car, but a bicycle which he kept at his cottage.

Wide range of suites available at An Siopa Troscan

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

See the full range of quality Irish manufactured suites at An Siopa Troscan in Moycullen, where all the suites can be made to order. The full range of styles covers everything from contemporary to traditional.

George Conboy Electrical has all your home appliance needs covered

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

George Conboy Electrical has been providing a home appliance sales and repairs service for all major brands for almost 50 years.

The company offers a professional service, stocking a wide range of spare parts for your washer, oven, fridge, or vacuum cleaner. It offers a call out service to your home to repair your oven, washer, fridge freezer, etc.

Colourfence — the perfect solution to your garden fencing requirements

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

Colourfence is a permanent, no-maintenance solution to all your fencing problems.

Is it Time to give your Home a Makeover?

Fri, Mar 25, 2016

Spring has sprung and it is the perfect time of year to declutter or do some redecorating. Is your house looking tired and in bad need of some TLC? Sometimes a lick of paint is all that is needed to take your rooms from drab to fab.

Take a Gourmet Taste Trail of Galway

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

One of the highlights of this year's Galway Food Festival will be the taste trail of Galway, involving tours and excursions around the city and county, including explorations of the history of wild salmon fishery in Galway, visiting a range of different restaurants, and collecting seaweed along Silverstrand.

Biteclub Disco Brunch for food festival

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

BITECLUB WILL be joining in with the Galway Food Festival celebrations this weekend and will be present at the food festival village at The Spanish Arch tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.

Holy Guacamole

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Famously, USA Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, is no fan of anything originating from Mexico. We in Ireland, however, feel differently about this. Mexican food, one of the biggest food trends of the last decade, shows no signs of slowing down here just yet. Just a few short years ago we got what passes for Mexican food from a yellow box in the supermarket. The finished product often appeared to have already been eaten by someone else. If you attempted to make your own, shopping for chili peppers was an adventure, avocados were an oddity and tortillas were totally out of the question. Latin-American foods such as nachos, chips and salsa, fajitas, quesadillas, burritos and beans are now an everyday sight on the dinner tables of Ireland and have become as common place as bacon and cabbage.

The Galway Volunteers

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Just a few weeks after the Irish Volunteers were formed in Dublin, a meeting was set up in the Town Hall on December 12th, 1913 to establish a Volunteer force in Galway. There was a lot of excitement and expectation as Eoin McNeill, Roger Casement and Pádraic Pearse told the packed hall that their main objective was to win Home Rule but the movement was also formed to protect them from the Ulster Volunteers. The meeting, which was chaired by George Nicholls, was a major success and some 600 men joined up that evening.

The stranger standing at Maam Cross Station

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

There was a humorous mix-up when Pádraig Pearse first visited Ros Muc in 1903. He was 24 years of age, and already imbued by a passion, and a vision for the Ireland of the new century. *

New brand at Standun’s of Spiddal

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

"Great Plains" designed by French Connection is the newest fashion label at Standun's of Spiddal.

From broken-striped separates to ladylike broderie dresses, in fresh waves of sea salt white and true navy popped with bright grenadine red, Mediterranean classics are reinvented to keep your spring/summer looks shipshape.

To Botox or not to Botox — you decide

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Did you know that Botox is now the most popular cosmetic surgery treatment, with more than six million treatments administered every single year all around the world? But what exactly is it, and what does it do?

Beautiful hair with Viviscal

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Say hello to Viviscal’s latest scientific innovation, Viviscal Gorgeous Growth Densifying Range - a dedicated line of advanced haircare created to transform thin, fine and limp hair with visible results.

Working in harmony with Viviscal’s widely acclaimed nutritional supplements, Viviscal’s new Gorgeous Growth Densifying hair care range features the potent proprietary Ana:Tel™ complex which extends hair growth and reduces hair fall ensuring a truly revolutionary multi-dimensional inside and out approach.

Get luscious lips with Lancome at Matt O’Flaherty’s

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Lancôme have shaken it up again with a lip product that does everything. Its new Juicy Shakers have taken the beauty blogger world by storm with their bi-phased formula that pairs nourishing lip oils with beautiful pigments.

Don’t get wet — build a carport to mind yourself and children

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Carports Direct is a Irish owned company which supplies and installs made to measure carports. They will advise you of the best option available without compromising the quality. All the structures are made to suit the clients' requirements.

For the best in fireplace design, look no further than Eamonn Hughes

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

If you want the best in fireplace design you will love the bespoke service at Eamonn Hughes, Ireland's most creative fireplace company. Experts in design, manufacture and installation, there is a limitless choice of marbles, cream limestone, grey limestone and lots more, all made at the workshop in Claremorris.

Check out www.hughesmarble.com for more ideas, or look up Eamonn Hughes Marble and Granite designs on facebook, Let Eamonn Hughes help you to design your fireplace. Fireplaces for free standing stoves and insert stores a speciality.

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