GMIT and GRETB offer maths course for second chance admission to GMIT

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board are jointly offering a maths course to CAO applicants who do not achieve the required grade in maths in their Leaving Certificate, giving students a second chance to gain admission to some courses in GMIT.

Autumn at the French Institute

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

The French Institute, established in Galway city for the past 35 years, offers a full range of classes, both online and in-premises. It has a wide array of courses for children (from age four), secondary school students, and adults, both daytime and evenings, starting the week of September 14.

Book now: The Grinds Academy offering one week free trial

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

The Grinds Academy is opening for its 12th year this September and is offering Junior and Leaving Cert students a one-week free trial of a subject of their choice in the location of their choice. Students can choose from English, Irish, or French in Galway city, Claregalway, Athenry, or Caherlistrane in north Galway.

What makes The Grinds Academy’s courses different is the attention to detail and a blended approach to learning. The Grinds Academy comprehensively covers all of each subject’s syllabus over a 32 week period. In addition, students of the academy can use the www.online-grinds.ie platform to access video classes, notes, and seminars from the convenience of their own home throughout the year.

Go with the flow in Athlone this autumn

Thu, Aug 27, 2020

If you think tourism has looked a bit frantic over the summer, a slow break in Athlone could be just the ticket for your autumn break away. Inspired by the River Shannon, lazily meandering south from Lough Ree, Athlone is embracing slow tourism with enthusiasm. River cruises, walking tours, gentle cycling routes, and relaxing spa treatments all play their part in creating the ultimate laid-back holiday experience in Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands.

Sport Medicine: How CBD Impacts Athletes in 2020

Wed, Aug 26, 2020

Cannabidiol (CBD) may only have been legalized in 2018, but researchers have been studying this plant-based compound for years. Early research focused on how it can be used to treat rare diseases such as certain types of childhood epilepsy. More recently, studies have begun to focus on how it impacts average consumers and, yes, athletes, and they have begun to turn up plenty of interesting information about how it may help to improve athletic performance.

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Qualify as a SNA in 2020

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

Synergy Lifelong Learning is a special education training company directed by Mairéad McHale. Mairead and team have now opened their classes to learners in the midlands offering QQI level 5 and QQI Level 6 SNA training in Athlone.

Galway’s only 7 day a week and out-of-hours counselling service reopened their doors!

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

Galway’s only 7 day a week and out-of-hours counselling service reopened their doors recently for face-to-face appointments and continues to provide appointments online and by phone.

Gardenwise | What’s In a Name?

Tue, Aug 25, 2020

When I’m discussing planting plans with clients they’re sometimes nonplussed by the botanical names of plants, and it’s hard to blame them - after all, not many of us are familiar with Latin in the twenty first century. There’s a very good reason for using them, though, and it’s not just to baffle you with hard to pronounce tongue twisters.

Gain knowledge and self-confidence with Galway City Community Training Centre

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Galway City Community Training Centre provides early school leavers with the skills, knowledge and self-confidence to gain nationally recognised qualifications and progress to employment, further training and education.

The Training Centre, which is based in the Liosbán Industrial Estate, provides a two-year training course for early school leavers at level three on the National Qualifications Framework.

Loughrea students advance to World F1 in schools finals in Melbourne

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Students from St. Brigid’s College in Loughrea have qualified for the F1 in Schools World Finals in Melbourne next year. Their team ‘Quintolux’ beat off stiff competition to be crowned National Champions in the national finals held earlier this year, as well as winning ‘Best Social Media’ in the competition.

It's wine o'clock somewhere

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Looking for the perfect wine? Look no further than these stylish and trendy new wines which are available exclusively at your local Joyce’s Supermarkets.

Get ready for Nosh & Co's great food

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Nosh & Co brings the very best quality dining to a customer's home or holiday home. Whether it is a dinner party with friends, a family celebration, or a birthday bash Nosh & Co Food Company caters for it all.

IPPM provide physiotherapy consultations in a new way

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Aoife Ni Eochaidh, Chartered Physiotherapist provides face to face, telephone and video call physiotherapy for pelvic floor muscle treatment for bladder and bowel incontinence from her clinic in Suite 14, Bon Secours Consultant Clinic in Renmore, Galway.

When Is the Right Time to Travel This Summer?

Thu, Aug 20, 2020

When you’re chomping at the bit to travel abroad and escape the lockdown situation, where should you go, and is it the right time to do so?

Gardenwise | Late Summer Blues

Wed, Aug 19, 2020

Nature, for reasons best known to herself, seems to favour shades of yellow and pink. That is, I am sure there are botanists and scientists who know why this is, but I only know that it is so. Check out the wildflowers growing by the roadside or in fields – they are still looking fabulous even in late August here in the west of Ireland – and you’ll see what I mean. There are plenty of pinks, yellows and whites, but apart from the odd vetch scrambling up a blackberry bush, blues are few and far between. And even the vetches are mostly mauvey - purple.

Colleran's Butchers now delivering to Moycullen!

Tue, Aug 18, 2020

Colleran's Butchers has been able to continue providing Galwegians in more than 20 locations throughout the county with premium meats and poultry products right to customers' doorsteps and now, Moycullen has been added to the ever growing delivery list.

Goyas getting creative!

Mon, Aug 17, 2020

From working in the kitchen on her own during lockdown to working out new furniture logistics in order to maintain social distancing, Goyas' owner, Emer Murray, admits the past five months have probably been some of the toughest in which she has been involved since the restaurant opened its doors nearly 30 years' ago.

Buttermilk Lane, 1838

Thu, Aug 13, 2020

William Evans was a distinguished painter in the 19th century who did a very unusual and adventurous thing for an English artist at the time — he travelled widely in Connemara and west Mayo. We can only speculate what attracted him to this wild, rugged, and remote terrain but he liked the parts of the country least visited, and said that, “Ireland failed to attract the pencils of the recording brethren of the easel and lay like a virgin soil untouched by the plough.” He produced many studies and finished watercolours, a mixture of landscapes, streetscapes, and market scenes, and what might be called peasant structures and peasant portraits.

‘Words and music are the thing here….’

Thu, Aug 13, 2020

In midsummer 1910 the artists Paul Henry and his wife Grace crossed the bridge into Achill Island, on the west coast of Co Mayo. They were both competent artists, but for Henry Achill was to be his great inspiration, leading to a style and an interpretation of the west of Ireland landscape that was to make him famous, and his work instantly recognisable.

Hello Galway – Gorse Eatery and Venue opens in Barna

Thu, Aug 13, 2020

Gorse Eatery and Venue is located in the beautiful Bearna Golf Club, with spectacular 180 degree views over Bearna Bog, the Burren, and as far as the Aran Islands on a good day. There is certainly more than one reason to visit. The golf club restaurant is open to the public and the club has excellent membership offers for the rest of the year.

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