Age-friendly Galway to host major conference on maximising the ability of older people

Thu, May 08, 2014

The county’s age-friendly status has attracted AIGNA, the All-Ireland Gerontological Nurses Association, to hold its sixth annual conference at the Clayton Hotel, Galway, on May 15.

More than 180 delegates from all over Ireland will attend the event which will focus on promoting positive ageing. Leading experts in the field including UK dementia care specialist Professor Jan Dewing and former Irish law commissioner Patricia Rickard-Clarke, are among the keynote speakers at the conference.

Giving a helping hand for hospice services

Thu, May 08, 2014

Legal eagles from from the Galway and Cork offices of RDJ Solicitors are cycling from Cork to Galway this weekend to raise funds for the Galway Hospice Foundation and Marymount University Hospice.

Anti-suicide walk in Galway set to exceed three thousand attendees

Thu, May 08, 2014

Almost 4,000 people are expected to take part in a 5k walk along Salthill to raise awareness of suicide prevention. The event, called Darkness Into Light, will be taking place in the early hours of Saturday morning and is the biggest event organized by Pieta House, a suicide prevention charity.

Irish Workhouse Centre plans weekend history conference

Thu, May 08, 2014

The Irish Workhouse Centre is holding a conference from Saturday 17 to Sunday 18 May entitled ‘The Irish Workhouse Past and Present’.

Five-a-side tournament for emergency service members

Thu, May 08, 2014

A five-a-side indoor soccer tournament for members of the various branches of the emergency services throughout Ireland will be held in Galway on May 24.

NUIG hosts adult learners information evening

Thu, May 08, 2014

An information evening for students considering part-time study options is being held in the Orbsen Building on the NUIG campus from 5pm-7:30pm on May 13.

Galway meeting on asylum seekers’ living conditions

Thu, May 08, 2014

A public meeting focusing on the housing of asylum seekers living in Ireland will be taking place in the Menlo Park hotel at 11am tomorrow, March 9.

The event will be addressed by asylum seekers currently living in Galway, the Galway city manager, Brendan McGrath; Anastasia Crickley, vice president of the UN committee on the elimination of racism and discrimination; as well as several Lcal Election candidates.

Bradley Motors help fight for Galway Hospice

Thu, May 08, 2014

Gary Giles (pictured) from Bradley Motor Works is supporting the Galway Hospice this June through the popular White Collar Boxing event.

Yeats College now enrolling for Irish summer college

Thu, May 08, 2014

Yeats College Galway has this week announced the return of its much sought after Irish language college. Now in its sixth year, Coláiste Yeats offers two-week day courses for Junior Certificate, Leaving Certificate, and primary school students.

Learn QuickBooks computerised accounts

Thu, May 08, 2014

GPA Solutions is delivering its certificate in manual

Study French this summer in Galway — and in France

Thu, May 08, 2014

The summer programmes at the French Institute in Bridge Mills are set to begin from May 19.

Free maths assessment

Thu, May 08, 2014

Learning maths is like climbing a stairs — you proceed one step at a time. If a step is broken or weak then it is difficult to advance any further. That is why it is vital that children learn the fundamental maths concepts and skills, especially the four operations — addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Children who are not 100 per cent fluent in these four basic operations cannot proceed successfully onto fractions, decimals, and percentages and then further onto pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Like the stairs, we proceed from one step to the next and each step needs to be completely secure in order to ensure a successful journey.

Christy Moore - Where he came from

Thu, May 08, 2014

Christy Moore makes a welcome return visit to Galway next week when he plays two concerts in Leisureland, on Thursday May 15, and Friday 16 (the latter is already sold out). Ahead of his appearances here, he took some time to chat about his life-long love for music, his family and his current tour.

Election candidates to hear Educate Together Newcastle expansion plans

Thu, May 08, 2014

The Galway Educate Together National School in Newcastle has invited local election candidates from all parts of Galway city to meet with teachers, parents, and children of the school to discuss the planned expansion of the school.

According to school principal, John Farrell, the meeting which takes place on Tuesday, May 13, at 1.30pm, is a chance for the local election candidates to find out “how the school expansion is progressing and to brief them about what is planned”. It is also an opportunity for students and their families to meet with the local election candidates “which is very much part of the Educate Together ethos”.

Galway brothers win major prizes in the World Irish Dance Championships

Thu, May 08, 2014

Brothers Michael (18) and Matthew (15) Gardiner from Parklands, Clarinbridge, are celebrating winning two major awards in the World Irish Dance Championships in London.

Blackrock Diving Tower repair works

Thu, May 08, 2014

The iconic Blackrock Diving Tower could soon receive a face lift as Galway City Council is currently seeking tenders for the rehabilitation project which is estimated to cost in the region of €100,000.

Reading the Runes: Local elections

Thu, May 08, 2014

Local Elections, like those coming up on May 23, are curious creatures. While they are undoubtedly local in the way that even a cursory glance at the different candidates election literature will immediately confirm – active in community initiatives, members of community councils, chairs of things like the Tidy Towns Committee, and, at least in the country, the GAA - local elections also have traditionally been seen, and used by voters, as a way of robustly telling the mainstream parties how they are seen from the groundlings point of view, and so providing either comfort or a harsh wake-up call, a two-fingered salute which is anything but comforting.

In a recent round-up of pre-election polls, a sort of ‘poll of polls’, the results strongly suggest the two-fingered salute is the most immediate response to the blizzard of cheery election posters, with their crushingly banal slogans (“Enough is Enough!”). The end of April Irish Independent-Millward Brown poll showed Fine Gael 25 per cent (down four per cent), Fianna Fail 23 per cent (up one per cent), Sinn Fein 21 per cent (up one per cent), Labour Party six per cent (NC), the Green Party, Independents and Others 25 per cent (up two per cent). If this is clearly bad news for both coalition parties, as well as Fianna Fail (a one per cent increase has the voter consistency of a sneeze), Independents of various hues can certainly draw comfort from the polls. As for Sinn Fein, the enigmatic Cinderella of Irish politics, the fact this poll shows them trouncing the venerable Labour Party, and nipping closely at the heels of the two largest parties in the Irish state, is matter for much serious consideration for voters of all hues.

Broadcasting icon to officially open new Oughterard NS

Thu, May 08, 2014

The new national school in Oughterard, designed by award-winning Simon J Kelly & Sons, will hold its official opening at 5pm on Saturday May 17.

Public meeting to save Barnaderg Post Office

Thu, May 08, 2014

The future of Barnaderg Post Office and An Post’s refusal to outline its strategy for sustaining the rural post office network are the topics expected to be thrashed out at a public meeting at Barnaderg Community Centre next week.

ME expert to speak in Galway

Thu, May 08, 2014

A leading international ME expert will speak about the condition in the city at the weekend.

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