Galway slimmers lose a whopping 1,994lb in January

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

A weight has been lifted for slimmers in Galway city and county as they are an incredible 142 stone 6lb lighter since the beginning of the year. They refused to let lockdown stop their slimdown and they have lost weight while eating delicious, satisfying, family-friendly, meals. Slimming World’s flexible healthy eating plan, Food Optimising, makes losing weight easy and enjoyable. There is no calorie counting and no tiny portions — just healthy, everyday, foods that can be found at the supermarket.

IPPM launches new affordable digital learning courses for men and women with bladder and bowel problems

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

Aoife Ni Eochaidh is a chartered physiotherapist and winner of the BPW and Irish Permanent Galway Young Business Woman of the Year Award. Her company IPPM offers physiotherapy for men, women, and children for pelvic conditions and incontinence. She is an experienced chartered physiotherapist who runs her private clinic from Suite 14, Bon Secours Consultant Clinic in Renmore, Galway. Aoife Ni Eochaidh has launched new home pelvic routine courses, which are affordable digital learning courses for people worldwide with incontinence and pelvic conditions. People can do these courses in comfort and privacy at home and can purchase them online from ippm.ie

St Pat's now enrolling for September 2021

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

St Patrick’s Primary School is now enrolling boys and girls for September 2021 for all classes from junior infants to sixth class.

Skills to Advance online with GRETB

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) has launched an online course in customer service aimed at employers wishing to upskill workers during the lockdown.

Special offer from the Herbal Study Academy

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

The Herbal Study Academy currently has a special offer - order the academy's foundation herbal medicine course and get the colour therapy course and healing course for free.

Students who do the foundation course will also get a free aromatherapy mini course, an acupressure course, and a reflexology mini course.

Galway Hockey Club, the first seventy years

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

In 1951 Hastings Elliott Jephson was working in the ESB in Galway when he had the idea of setting up a hockey club in the city. He and his friend George Bevis decided to see if there was merit in this notion, so they simply went from door to door around town asking people if they would have any interest in playing the game of hockey.

‘Bed and quinine appear to be the two great safeguards.’

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

The Galway Expess was one of the first local newspapers to notice that the increasing numbers of people succumbing, some very suddenly, to the so called Spanish ‘Flu that swept across the world in the early summer of 1918, was ‘virulently infectious’. It speculated that it first reached Ireland through Belfast, and in many cases ‘entire households have been seized,’ industries have been closed, and schools ‘although children suffer less than adults, they spread infection’, have also been closed. ‘Sudden collapses are the most striking feature, the victim being struck down almost immediately.’

Show some love with this delicious baked cheesecake

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

We may be stuck at home this Valentine’s Day, but we can make the best of it with this restaurant quality, easy to make dessert from Siúcra.

Siúcra has teamed up with foodie and parenting influencer Lili Forberg to whip up an incredible New York baked cheesecake with butterscotch sauce using some staple ingredients.

Irish family hiking trip on the Tour du Mont Blanc

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

In February 2019, little did I know when I began the mammoth task of planning a hiking trip on the Tour du Mont Blanc for our family of six that it would be our last trip abroad for some time.

Desire to start gardening in earnest with advent of spring

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

Though St Brigid’s day (Feb 1) is considered the start of spring in the Celtic calendar, it is really still wintering outside in the veggie patch.

Hartmanns online store remains open for Valentine's Day!

Tue, Feb 09, 2021

Hartmanns of Galway, one of the west of Ireland’s premier jewellers may have the doors shut, but the online store is open for business with a huger selection of diamond engagement rings for those who want to pop the question this St Valentine's Day.

Death by wrongful humiliation - the story of Valentine Steinberger

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

STEPHANIE KLAPP, MA Culture and Colonialism NUI Galway, history teacher, and local historian, recalls the story of a fellow German who made Galway his home, but found himself caught up in the 1916 Rising and wrongly humiliated on the streets of Galway.

Essential physiotherapy service remains open to treat bladder and bowel incontinence

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

Aoife Ni Eochaidh, chartered physiotherapist, provides face to face, phone, 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. She also treats sexual dysfunction, prolapse, post-natal pelvic conditions, and osteoporosis. People can choose to have their pelvic physiotherapy consultation by regular phone call, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc, or to attend in person. Patients can get a referral from their GP or self-refer.

Lose up to two stone in ten weeks

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

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Covid-19 vaccine rollout creates an incentive to improve our health

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is well under way, and now is the time for each of us to plan for our turn.

A recent review of research suggests that we should take steps to make sure we are in good health, both physically and emotionally, before receiving the vaccine, in order to enjoy maximum benefit.

A brownie a day keeps the frownies away

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

Treat yourself with a delicious sweet treat in no time with this quick and easy hassle-free gooey chocolate brownie recipe.

SuperSubs soup brings some Mexican warmth

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

Olé! The SuperSubs soup range has a new bean on the block.

Enjoy an authentic taste of Asia from Spiced Barna and Salthill

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

Spiced, the popular Barna restaurant now also open in Salthill, offers delicious authentic Asian dishes bringing together the best culinary traditions from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Make Pancake Tuesday extra special with these confetti buttermilk pancakes

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

Pancake Tuesday is approaching, and when it comes to the best breakfast ideas, Siúcra delicious confetti buttermilk pancakes are sure to please. These colourful pancakes are super quick and easy to make from standard ingredients you most likely already have in your kitchen.

CAO applicants total more than seventy nine thousand at close of normal deadline

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

A total of 79,303 people had submitted applications to the Central Applications Office by the time the normal application deadline closed at 5.15pm on Monday, according to the CAO.

This figure does not represent the total number of expected CAO applicants for 2021, as a late application facility opens on March 5 and closes on May 1 at 5.15pm.

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