Splash out at Brown Thomas spring beauty and fashion event

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

Splashout, the spring beauty and fashion event, will take place from Thursday March 5 to Mother’s Day, Sunday March 22 in all Brown Thomas stores. The event will see a host of visiting international make-up artists demonstrating the hot colours and trends for face, nails, and body.

Elysium Day Spa shortlisted for beauty industry Oscars

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

Elysium Day Spa & Laser Clinic, Moycullen, has been shortlisted to the final five for the IBPA Salon of the Year award.

How important is colour?

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

It has been proven that the human eye responds positively to harmonious colours. Colour is the first thing you notice when you see someone. Wearing the right colours for you can make you look better, healthier, and even taller! A trained colour consultant can show you what colour palette suits you best. During a consultation you will:

Great value at Belladonna

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

It was a great feat for leading Galway bridal shop Belladonna to have one of its stunning wedding gowns featured on RTE’S Afternoon Show last Thursday.

The Connacht Tribune, one hundred years

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

The first issue of the Connacht Tribune was published on May 22, 1909. The newspaper was housed in Market Street, originally known as North Street (the Tribune side was known as North Street West). We know from the 1651 map that the site it occupied was originally part of the Athy Castle, also the castle belonging to the French family and part of the convent occupied by the Poor Clares. There was an underground passage from the convent running under Market Street and branching underground to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. This enabled the nuns who were and are an enclosed order, to attend services in the church, and to use the tunnel as a hiding place in times of persecution.

Galway - embraced by Dr Strangelove?

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Week II

Coping with workplace stress

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

When you wake up in the morning does your heart sink at the thought of going to work? Does facing exacting deadlines, a bullying boss or unco-operative colleagues fill you with dread and fear?

Mirror, mirror on the wall

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Mirrors are the perfect complement to natural and artificial lights in a home and a skilfully picked up mirror can refresh even the most boring interior, giving to it a special, unique, style. It can be an imperceptible detail, and can set the fashion for the whole interior. The mirror is able to generate various spatial and light illusions, to hide lacks of the lay-out and to do many other things.

Mirrors are magical when it comes to interior design. Yes, mirrors are great for fixing up your hair, but mirrors can also give a room an illusion of depth as well as make up beautiful wall decor. Mirrors do not just belong in the bathroom and bedroom. Mirrors can be excellent additions to any space, especially smaller spaces. The way in which mirrors reflect light and the rest of the room can really give your room a larger feel to it. And there are so many interesting mirrors out there with beautiful and unique frames that you are sure to find some to match your current home decor.

Happy anniversary The Red Barn

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

The Red Barn wishes to thank all its customers who have supported the company throughout its nine years in business and its first year at its new premises. The company will offer 20 per cent off all items on the weekend of March 6 to celebrate its anniversary.

Benefits of regular exercise

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that all people regularly do activities that address each component of overall fitness: cardiovascular endurance through aerobic activity, strength through weight training, and flexibility achieved through stretching. Each of these types of exercise can improve our sense of psychological well-being. However, because the most profound effects on mental health are derived through aerobic activity, it is the major focus.

Tell us what you want — and the cheapest dinner in town (with wine)

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Many restaurant owners are busy designing new menus, special offers, early birds, etc. However I would like to ask you the readers what you would like to see from our eateries in Galway, and what matters to you and your family when eating out. I will publish the most popular requests in a future article and the restaurant proprietors can take it from there. Send me an e-mail, [email protected] with your comments, don’t agonise over it, just tell me the first one, two, or three things that come to mind or things that are most important to you when eating out. For example: types of food, pricing, parking, opening hours, service, food and wine matching dishes, special gourmet dinners, etc.

Alternative cookery classes at Ard Bia

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

IN MARCH Ard Bia Nimmo’s will be hosting organic cookery classes, creative workshops, wine tasting, and a new knitting series.

On Saturday March 7 and Sunday 8 there will be an introduction to whole food cooking. The class will discuss what foods belong to a vegetarian diet. It will also look at kitchen essentials and equipment, how to use a grain mill, juicer, and blender, and there will be food tasting.

Value for money in Busy Bees

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Parents can enjoy great value for money in Busy Bees activity centre in Oranmore, so there’s no need for children to miss out on playtime.

The latest fashions at your fingertips

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

In recent years online shopping has become something of a phenomenon with any retailers worth their salt offering customers the chance to sit in the luxury of their own home and buy what they want at the click of a button.

Forget Me Not at Belladonna Bridal

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Belladonna has been hosting some wonderful designer weekends over the past two months, and next Friday and Saturday the company will host a weekend not to be missed with Forget Me Not Designs.

Brides from all over the country will be coming to Belladonna to meet the designers from Forget Me Not Designs. Geraldine Tulloch and Katerina will be present to assist brides in choosing from their wonderful collection of wedding gowns. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet with them and have a bespoke dress or unique couture gown individually designed for you.

Galway personal trainer expands her business

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

One of Galway’s leading personal trainers is busy expanding her business, proving that people are still keen to invest in their health and well-being despite the economic downturn.

Thirty years of Renmore fun and entertainment

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

In the 1970s Renmore was a fast growing suburb with many young families moving in. There were very few facilities in the area at the time. The school assembly hall was the only social centre and it was there, in the tiny kitchen, that Sean O’Malley suggested to his team mates in the local badminton club they might consider having a parish pantomime. They agreed. A group was formed and they drew up a mission statement — “To foster, encourage and assist theatrical, cultural, and artistic activities in the Renmore community, but also throughout Galway and its environs, and in so doing, to assist whatever charitable causes are deemed appropriate by the committee.”

Russia had its eye on Galway

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

If anyone thought that all a country need do to preserve its freedom when its neighbours are at war is to proclaim its neutrality, then they have only to look hard at what happened to several European countries at the beginning of World War II. Ladies and gentleman of the whinge brigade, neutrality isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Ireland declared its neutrality at the outbreak of World War II, but even so, that was no guarantee that Ireland would escape the war. But thanks to the clever manoeuvrings by the de Valera government, when all Europe was in flames, by making some realistic compromises along the way, Ireland managed to do so. One of our compromises was robust support for the Allies. Although Britain and America demanded more from Ireland (such as access to our ports to relieve British convoys from a cruel war in the Atlantic), there was significant co-operation between our two countries to calm Allied nerves, and get us safely through an immensely difficult period. Part of our co-operating included the exchange of information and views between the British and Irish secret services. By adopting ‘emergency powers’ the Irish Government had no qualms interning IRA German sympathisers, German spies and pilots, whereas Allied pilots were repatriated through Northern Ireland. Strict newspaper and radio censorship kept war information out of reach, not only from Seán Citizen, but from the number of Irish people who thought it no harm at all if Britain got a good hiding.

Artisan Restaurant, Quay Street

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

If you enjoy great food and have not yet discovered the treasures awaiting you at the relatively new Artisan Restaurant in Quay Street, then you have a real treat in store for yourself. It is located upstairs over Tigh Neachtain’s pub where Ard Bia was located before its move to the Spanish Arch. The restaurant is run by Matt Skeffington who does the job of maitre d’ in a pretty cool and efficient style. The kitchen is run by head chef Sylvain Gatay, and he has produced a menu which is quite wide ranging and with regional French flavours to many of the dishes on offer. The restaurant is not large so booking is recommended at weekends. The food is brilliant and the atmosphere perhaps could best be described as cool, lively, and happy.

Get ready for Pancake Tuesday

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

Twenty five per cent more Tesco Ireland customers choose to buy milk, flour, and eggs to make their own pancakes rather than buy convenience pancake products, a survey by the supermarket chain has revealed.

It’s no wonder, given that any number of delicious home-made pancakes can be made using these three ingredients, and the result is far tastier than the just-add-water variety available in supermarkets.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.