Yoga for children

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Galway Yoga Kids Camp provides a safe and nurturing environment where your children can strengthen their sense of confidence, focus, breath, creativity, physical awareness, and appreciation of their whole being through yoga, movement, music, and art.

Acupuncture to assist fertility

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Acupuncture is one of the fertility treatments being sought by a growing number of women who are not able to get pregnant using more conventional methods.

Are you tired of being tired? What are your eyes telling you?

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Do you feel tired all the time? Your body needs detoxing, superfoods, and balanced nutrition. A four-week vitality programme is offered by Yvonne Duffy O’Shaughnessy at Health and Herbs including juice therapy, correcting your diet, and detoxing your bowel, liver, and kidneys in order to get back the boundless energy you once had.

Juice therapy, superfoods, and a healthy low GI programme are a delicious solution to assist you in your weight loss goals and also a great way to increase your stamina and vitality while fighting disease and recovering from illness faster as you cleanse your body, rebuild blood cells, increase your immunity, alkalise your system, reduce allergies, and increase your overall wellbeing. On this programme you will have an iridology reading, which takes a picture of your eyes and examines what can be seen in your iris picture. It identifies energy blockages in the body as well as toxins, cholesterol, etc.

St Bridget’s Terrace, one hundred years ago

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

This aerial photograph of the top of Prospect Hill (which was originally known as St Bridget’s Hill) and the beginnings of Bohermore was taken in the 1950s and was given to us by Fr Des Forde. On the left you can see part of the old County Buildings. The terrace we see to the right of our picture is St Bridget’s Terrace. Before the terrace was built, it was the site of two large reservoirs which were constructed in 1868 to supply water to the city. Water was pumped up from the Dyke Road to these reservoirs by pumps situated in the lane in the centre of our photograph, which was known as Pumpeen Lane.

A bizarre meeting on the Galway train

Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Week III

Promised regional paediatric diabetes posts remain unfilled

Thu, Jun 07, 2012

A call has been made for the HSE West to make additional nursing and dietician support available to enable children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes receive insulin pump treatment at University Hospital Galway.

The advocacy group Diabetes Ireland wants the health authority to channel promised resources into this area saying the therapy improves young people’s quality of life.

Juice therapy workshop

Thu, Jun 07, 2012

Learn how much, how often and what juices work best for what at a juice therapy workshop at Health and Herbs, Sea Road, Galway, on Wednesday June 6, from 7pm to 8.30pm.

The workshop will discuss how juice therapy, wheatgrass, and super foods play a vital role in curing disease and reviving stamina. Regular consumption of fruit and vegetable juice also strengthens the body and prevents degeneration of the skin, flesh, glands, and organs as well as cleansing the organs and the blood, helping us to recover from illness faster, and increasing energy. Juicing also helps increase your immunity, alkalise your system, improve cardiovascular system and heart health, and increase your stamina and vitality.

Taking years off your appearance

Thu, Jun 07, 2012

When you look in the mirror are you happy with the reflection that stares back at you? Or do you feel you look older than your years, perhaps clinging steadfastly to an outdated image?

Our Lady’s Boys Club

Thu, May 31, 2012

Our photograph today is of a 1950s soccer team representing Our Lady’s Boys Club, taken in Terryland where facilities were quite primitive at the time and, as you can see, the preferred mode of transport apart from shank’s mare was cycling. The team is, back row, left to right: Patsy Burke, Richie O’Connor, Brod Long, Brendan Dowling, Paddy Power, Tommy Carr, Paddy Beatty. In front are Danny Collins, Billy Carr, John Rushe, Steve Mannion, Gus O’Connor, and Barney Birkett.

The case of the Craughwell Prisoners

Thu, May 31, 2012

In the 1880s the Land War was at its height. It was a prolonged period of bitter civic unrest which pitted an unprotected peasantry against some ruthless landlords, who had the law and power of eviction at their disposal. Following the Great Famine a weakened tenant peasantry was easily removed from the land. It began a pitiful trail to the workhouse, and the emigrant ships. But as the century progressed the situation changed. The highly organised Irish National Land League supported evicted farmers; while members of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Westminster fought for legislation which would eventually see a redistribution of land to tenants.

Legislative development, however, would take years. There were other weapons which supported the tenant in the meantime. Secret societies, such as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the‘ White Boys’ and many others, exerted huge pressure on the people to resist rent increases, and to remain silent as to its membership. An effective weapon was boycott. A landlord who was boycotted meant that he could not buy food locally, and his domestic and estate staff would leave him. Animals were sometimes maimed, or released to wander the roads. Walls were knocked, hay barns set alight. He could apply for police protection, and with difficulty, have food brought to him from outside his area. John W Lambert of Aggard House, the owner of an estate of 3,440 acres, had a grave dug in front of his house as a warning. He was boycotted

Coping with life’s pressures

Thu, May 31, 2012

What sort of things put you under pressure? Paying bills, lack of job security, traffic congestion, family rows?

Living with MS

Thu, May 24, 2012

When Anne-Marie Hayden was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a progressive neurological condition, at age 20 she entered a “completely different world”.

The Great Gourmet Challenge set to promote the wonders of the west

Thu, May 24, 2012

Recently referred to as “one of the country’s most exciting chefs” by Taste of Ireland, Jonathan Keane, head chef at Co Mayo’s boutique hotel, Lisloughrey Lodge, has overhauled the entire menu and is setting himself up for a challenge to showcase the wonders of the west.

Delicious authentic Indian cuisine in Kashmir

Thu, May 24, 2012

Galway has always been known for its diversity — a town of exotic sailors and Connemara tribes, this medieval city has been a melting pot for as long as it has existed. We have well established Chinese and Thai restaurants, and more recently some terrific Japanese ones. For fans of Indian food, however, Kashmir has been offering consistently delicious examples of this varied cuisine to Galway diners for some time now. Indian food is the 'Marmite' of global cuisines — it evokes a love or hate attitude that other ethnic traditions just do not get. There is often an excess of heat over flavour that has alienated many a diner. Not so at Kashmir.

This is Indian food cooked as it should be. Nearly every dish is labour-intensive with very few that can just be thrown together. Vegetables, herbs, and different combinations of intoxicating spices create the base of each of the sauces, all made from scratch on the premises, which means they are largely gluten-free as well as uniquely flavoured. The food was also noticeably less greasy than similar meals I have eaten at other Indian restaurants. I tootled along one weekday evening with a curry-loving friend. The decor is as you would expect, with comfortable dark furniture, and gilded idols keeping an eye on the room. Faint notes of incense hung in the air and the piped music is pure Bollywood.

Artisan Restaurant welcomes two new appointments and launches new summer menu

Thu, May 24, 2012

Winner of the Best Restaurant in Galway at The Restaurant Association Best in Ireland Awards, Artisan has welcomed two new additions to its award-winning team and launched a delicious new summer menu. Newly-appointed head chef Mark Campbell has put together a superb offering of culinary options guaranteed to suit all palettes.

Irish brown soda bread

Thu, May 24, 2012

This brown bread is light and fluffy. Since it has a moist consistency, it does not require kneading…just mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon.

On the wine shelf

Thu, May 24, 2012

Les Auzines Fleurs Blanches 2009 (Independents, €9.99)

On the cookery book shelf

Thu, May 24, 2012

Made at Home – Preserves
Dick and James Strawbridge

Bring the outdoors inside this summer

Thu, May 24, 2012

Planting season is upon us. Garden centres and DIY stores will be buzzing with people popping in to buy seeds and plants to transform their gardens from dull, wintry, places to bright summery spaces. This summer those who consider themselves to be green fingered may just be turning their hand to more than planting in the garden — they may be planting their homes.

Solar panel prototype wins Avaya prize

Thu, May 24, 2012

A final year student in electrical and electronic engineering has been awarded the Avaya Prize for the best final year project in the College of Engineering at NUI Galway.

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