Boxed in — are ye settled in yet?
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
In our wisdom (not!) last August we packed up everything from our home in Galway to make this move. I mean everything. There were even logs in the log basket. Much remained unopened, predominantly books. Boxes and boxes of them and at that I have given scores of them to local charity shops.
But there are many, however, I cannot part with. Today, I again found myself with tape and boxes, shifting and lifting and moving. The removal truck now makes its way from Oxfordshire to Galway with our surplus to requirements. No room at the inn. The double bed where the children were conceived is gone back too. The Small Man relegated to a single bed. I should have got them to take the Christmas tree as well (still in the back garden).
Read more ...Night for Manuela organisers awarded Volunteers of The Year
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
The Night for Manuela Organising Committee won the Galway City Credit Union’s Volunteers of the Year at the eighth Annual Mayor’s Awards for Galway City.
Read more ...Canney condemns ‘obscene amounts of money’ paid to retiring TDs
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Retiring politicians will reap a massive €10 million in golden handshake payments, a level of taxpayers money that is “absolutely shocking”.
Read more ...Facts and Escapism
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Bertie Ahern’s interview on his final day in Dáil Eireann typifies the man. He was gratuitously offensive to a member of the public with legitimate complaints when he sarcastically stated that some people would do anything to get on TV. The fact that she might have a point about his having more than a little responsibility for the current economic crises completely escaped him.
Read more ...Drunk man drives rental car down pedestrianised street, court hears
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Socialising with pals not seen in years resulted in one man driving a rental car down a pedestrianised street while intoxicated to over twice the legal limit, the Galway District Court heard this week.
At Monday’s sitting, Michael Mulkerrins (45) with an address given as Maumen, Leitor Mor, but who resides in England, was disqualifed from driving for three years and ordered to immediately pay a total fine of €1,000 before he was released and free to return to the UK.
Read more ...Coláiste Iognáid scoops council litter award
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Coláiste Iognáid has been named overall winner in the Galway City Council's Adopt-a-Spot Competition 2010.
Read more ...Free the Castlebar One says independent candidate Canney
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Enda Kenny has been kept in captivity by Fine Gael for too long and it is time the party gave him his freedom in order to fight the General Election.
This is the view of Independent Galway East candidate councillor Sean Canney who has taken a humorous swipe at FG over the absence of its leader from the airwaves and debates as the State heads towards the General Election.
Read more ...Marc Roberts wins country music award
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Marc Roberts, the popular Galway based singer, songwriter, and broadcaster, won solo artist of the year at the recent Sunday World Country Music Awards in Mullingar.
Read more ...Have an eight-some at Cava
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
To celebrate the annual Seville Tapas Fair in February, Cava Spanish Restaurant and Tapas Bar in Galway has announced its exciting 2011 Tapas Fiesta Menu.
Read more ...More than three hundred delegates attend successful NUIG Energy Night
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
More than 300 delegates from the academic community, local and national industry, those at the forefront of policy-making, and the general public attended and actively participated in Energy Night 2011 which was held at NUI Galway last week.
Read more ...I gcuimhne far an leaid rua
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Seoladh The Blue-Eyed Boy, In Memory of an Leaid Rua an tseachtain seo caite sa Scoil Chuimsitheach an Cheathrú Rua. Seo leabhar a bhí curtha le chéile mar thionscadal idirbhliana sa rang Béarla i gcuimhne ar scoláire, Micheál Rua Seoighe, a maraíodh go tubaisteach i mí na Samhna 2009. Ba é Seán Mac Donncha, leasphríomhoide na scoile, a sheol an leabhar agus ba í Fiona de Paor, an múinteoir Bhéarla, a bhí i gceannas ar an rang idirbhliana.
Read more ...Litir chuig Enda
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Tá litir, sínithe ag ionadaithe eagraíochtaí oideachais, ceardchumainn mhúinteoirí, eagrais Ghaeilge, aontais mac léinn, coláistí samhraidh, grúpaí mná tí, eagraíochtaí óige, agus eagraíochtaí Gaeltachta, seolta chuig Enda Kenny, ceannaire Fhine Gael, ag éileamh air polasaí an pháirtí, stádas na Gaeilge don ardteist a ísliú tríd an ábhar a dhéanamh roghnach, a chur ar leataobh agus seasamh taobh thiar di mar chroí-ábhar don ardteist a dhéanfaidh gach mac léinn staidéar uirthi.
Read more ...Man given last chance to behave or face jail
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
A 36-year-old man, with alcohol and agression problems, has been given a final warning to obey his conditions of probation and to behave himself or face jail next time.
Read more ...Hunt Report ‘a road map for Australia’ says Ó Clochartaigh
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
The new National Strategy for Higher Education, co-ordinated by Dr Colin Hunt, is not a vision for the future but a ‘road map to Australia’ for the nation’s youth.
Read more ...Grealish urges Government to include nurses in proposed new HSE exit scheme
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
A local TD is calling on the Government to include frontline nursing staff in a proposed new voluntary redundancy package for employees in the wider public service.
Read more ...TG4 to screen new Galway-based drama series
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Galway actor Diarmuid de Faoite and singer/actress Maria Doyle Kennedy will star in Corp + Anam, a gritty new drama series starring which begins on Wednesday February 16 at 9.30pm on TG4.
Read more ...New radio documentary looks at the local impact of climate change
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Rain, storms, droughts, and you guessed it, even more cold spells could become the norm as climate change increasingly threatens to pose serious challenges for Galway city, that’s according to leading scientist and NUI Galway lecturer Dr Kieran Hickey who was featured in a new radio documentary aired this week.
The likely impact of climate change on Galway city is the subject of the new documentary, ‘The Rising Tide...?’, which was independently produced by locally based Sound Woman Productions and broadcast on Galway Bay FM last Wednesday.
Read more ...‘All Go’ for 2011 Safety Direct Galway International Rally
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
The Safety Direct Galway International Rally 2011 takes place this weekend from Friday February 4, to Sunday February 6, with a number of events taking place to mark its 40th anniversary.
Read more ...Through the glass darkly
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing and, by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara, I was feverish and coughing. I spent the rest of my time in bed reading the only two books on Aran and its saints that I could find, a big one by Mr O Siochain [Aran: Islands of Legend] and a small one by Father Scantlebury [Saints and Shrines of Aran Mor]”.
Read more ...New triathlon club for Connemara
Thu, Feb 03, 2011
Galway boasts a new triathlon club, TríSpórt, which is also a first for the Connemara Gaeltacht.
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