The times we live in
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Ya know the world is not right when Irish politicians are resigning on the grounds of principle...without any video or audio evidence...when the Greens are the ones who are caught out being unlawful...when Tiger Woods is pretending to be human and is saying sorry to everyone but the scores of mistresses...when Willie O’Dea is giving out about people kicking a man when he is down. Ya know the world is not right when Mayo beat Galway...twice...in a row...without even trying. Ya know the world isn’t right when the Galway footballers are dying their hair blond...and they not even knowing Michael Jackson. Ya know the world isn’t right when hurling fans in Tipperary hand the GAA €150,000 on a snowy Saturday night, be tormented for an hour or so, and then head off home into the night without seeing any hurling or without getting any of the cash back. Twice. Will we get a receipt? Will we f... ya know the world isn’t right when Galway club hurlers have to go to the High Court to get a victory...Ya know the world is not right when ya realise how long it took for Cheryl to realise that Ashley is a twat. And we all knowing that for years. Honest. Ya know the world is not right when ya realise that it’s costing the Guards €10,000 to police rag week in Galway and leave a state of the art policing buggy in the Square to do the job when criminals are shooting each other across the country... Why don’t they just give the money to charity and tell all the students to stay at home...ya know the world isn’t right when despite all the policing, rag week students behave themselves...ya know the world isn’t right when Enda Kenny is trying to find himself and then be that person...and then finding out that that person is a cross combining Roy Keane, Ena Sharples and Arnold Schwarzenegger...ya know the world isn’t right when Jedward tickets sell out in 15 minutes which is probably 12 minutes more than the material they have...ya know the world is not right when the last connection with Wanderly Wagon goes to his eternal reward and when the first person you meet (on ‘Judge’ment day) in the afterlife is Bosco...ya know the world is not right when ya hear that an unelected Green can tweet us all into distraction...when the Bishops are asking us for their forgiveness...when Thalimidomide survivors can’t even get a grant to help lock their homes while a directly elected mayor will have a staff of 30...ya know the world is not right when Ronan O’Gara writes to newspapers to complain about them complaining about him...ya know the world is not right when the Irish bobsleigh team don’t come last in the Winter Olympics and when Irishman Mikey Graham is still in the running to win Skating on Ice...ya know the world isn’t right when Michael O’Leary comes over all patriotic and caring...So how could we be anyway but the way we are?
Read more ...Ballinasloe included in flood risk study
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Ballinasloe will be included in the major new Shannon Flood Risk Management Study to be commissioned by the Office of Public Works in the summer.
Read more ...Stop dismantling health service Government warned at Galway meeting
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says the campaign by public sector workers to reverse the pay cuts in the Budget must also make sure that the dismantling of the public health service is stopped.
Read more ...Don’t leave boxes and bags outside bottle banks says McNelis
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
People leaving bottles in the city’s bottle banks should not leave behind boxes and bags that have been used to carry the glass, but should carry it home.
Read more ...Danish man dies suddenly while working on Loughrea wind turbine
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A man has died suddenly while working on a wind turbine in south Galway.
Read more ...Bang a drum and raise money for Haiti
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
On Sunday more than 100 Tribal Spirit Drummers from across Ireland will gather in NUI, Galway in a fundraising event for earthquake relief in Haiti.
Read more ...Search for the elusive Nash after daredevil graffiti artist tattoos city
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Under the cloak of darkness in the early hours of Sunday morning, a person known by his/her paintwork as Nash scaled an incredible height to decorate the gable end of Garvey’s bar and hotel on Eyre Square with graffiti.
Read more ...Galway city recognised as hub for medical technology industry by global organisation
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Galway has been recognised as the hub for the medical technology industry. TOPRA, the global organisation for regulatory affairs professionals, has selected the city for its first Irish-based training programme in medical technology regulatory affairs.
In collaboration with Cranfield University and with the assistance of the Irish Medicines Board and Galway-based Merrill Brink International medical translations, TOPRA is running a three day short course entitled “Principles of European Medical Technology Regulatory Affairs”.
Read more ...Winner of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh to be announced tonight
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Final preparations are currently under way for the award ceremony of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh which is to take place tonight at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Joyces 365 and Oxfam take part in Fairtrade fortnight
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Fairtrade Fortnight has begun and with Joyces 365 and Oxfam getting in on the action there will be plenty of delights in store for customers for yet another week.
Read more ...Galway Advertiser is still the runaway leader in local newspaper circulation race
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Galway Advertiser has maintained its position as the highest circulation local newspaper in the country at a time when recently published ABC audit figures for Ireland's newspaper industry show a dramatic decline in the circulation of almost all 'paid for' newspapers, both local and national.
Read more ...Waterways to be searched in missing man probe
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Garda helicopter will travel to Galway tomorrow to participate in the search for a man who went missing in Galway last December.
Read more ...Grealish calls for solution to Calasanctius row
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Calasanctius College and the Department of Education must reach an agreement to facilitate 23 children who have been refused a place at the school for the 2010/2011 year.
Read more ...Jockey murder accused to face further charges
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Further charges could be brought against a 37-year-old man accused of murdering two promising young jockeys, including Claregalway teen Jamie Kyne, who perished in a blaze at a UK block of flats last year.
Read more ...Search of river follows reports of ‘body’ in water
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A search and rescue operation was launched in the early hours of yesterday following reports that a body had been spotted in the river near Wolfe Tone Bridge. However an extensive search of the area revealed nothing, and the incident is now believed to have been a false alarm.
It is understood a member of the ambulance service reported seeing a body in the water at Wolfe Tone Bridge at around 3am yesterday. The RNLI and Galway Fire Brigade went to the scene and an extensive search was carried out. No body was found during the two-hour search, and the incident is now believed to have been a false alarm.
Read more ...Sargent departure is ‘ bolt from the blue’
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
In the space of 10 days the Greens have been hit by a double whammy of resignations and plunged into a public bickering match with their coalition colleagues Fianna Fáil.
Read more ...Demon drinker jailed for trouble at A&E
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A Clare man who described himself as being “like a demon” when drinking and who had to be held down by A&E staff while they desperately tried to treat him was sentenced to three months in jail.
Read more ...Patricia Forde to read new children’s book in Dubrays
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Frogs Do Not Like Dragons is a new children’s book from the Galway writer and former Galway Arts Festival artistic director Patricia Forde.
Read more ...Music For Galway ‘in danger of disappearing’
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Music For Galway, which organises classical music concerts, recitals, and events for the city is “in danger of disappearing” after its Arts Council funding was slashed by 35 per cent.
Read more ...Young people urged to take a stand against job losses
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A Galway based national youth organisation is calling on young people to take a stand in relation to ongoing job losses and cuts in key health, education, transport and community services.
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