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.

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.

‘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.

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]”.

Later, during the week, a learned friend came to see him, and Butler, excited by the two books, attempted to communicate some of his enthusiasm to his visitor, “but I failed miserably”. The reason for his failure, Butler tells us, lay in the fact that the study of the Aran saints – and by extension the majority of the saints of the early Irish church – had been taken over by “textual criticism and philology and scientific excavations”, which he regretted as the Medusa-gaze of dry as dust.

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.

Laptop thief unlawfully at large because of prison fracas, court hears

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A 26-year-old laptop thief, who was had been unlawfully at large for six months, has claimed that he was fearful of returning into custody because of a prison fracas between Irish and Eastern European inmates.

Lord works in mysterious waves — Galway gets a Christian radio station

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Ireland’s first quasi-national Christian radio station launched last week when World Champion Boxer, Katie Taylor released white doves to mark the official launch of Spirit Radio onto the Irish airwaves.

Friedrich Engels and his forgotten journey to County Galway

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Friedrich Engels is best known as the author of The Conditions Of The Working Class in England and as the co-author, along with Karl Marx, of The Communist Manifesto, but one of his least well known writings is about Galway, describing the county and its people in the aftermath of The Famine.

City doctor on mercy mission to Chad

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A doctor from Rahoon Road in the city is heading to Chad in central Africa to set up an HIV/Aids project.

City businessman and election candidate slams HSE West €7m spend on legal fees

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A general election candidate and a founding member of Hope4Disability, a local disability action group, has slammed what he terms the “obscene” amount of more than €7 million spent by the HSE West on legal fees for barristers and solicitors last year.

Man to face trial for false imprisonment of woman

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A 28-year-old man accused of allegedly tresspassing in a building and falsely imprisoning a woman has been sent forward for trial.

NRA €4.3 million funding to make ‘real difference’ says Galway Tranportation Unit head

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The recent NRA funding of €4.3 million is a big boost and will help make a “real difference” in the city council’s work to provide high standard road infrastructure and improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians, according to Joe Tansey, head of the Galway Transportation Unit.

Emigration will ‘damage Galway society and economy’ says Nolan

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Ireland will never fully emerge from the present economic crisis unless unemployment is seriously addressed by politicians and university graduates are given a reason to stay in the country.

Crowe vows to help secure €25 million funding for Galway Port plan

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The Galway Port Development Plan is an “ambitious” project which will help open up the entire region and secure Galway’s sustainable economic growth into the future, that is according to Mayor Michael Crowe who has vowed to work to secure the necessary €25 million State investment.

Airport’s future brighter following crucial Government decision on funding

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The future of Galway Airport was made a lot brighter this week as it will now continue to be included in the vital operational subvention funding programme following a decision by Government to reject the recommendations contained in the ‘Value For Money’ report.

No excuses as The Chosen People shun politics

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The best laid plans of mice and men, Eh? Well, the mice have certainly been to the fore this week with the news that the beautiful people, the chosen ones, those doyens of the media, those apostles of the commentary box, those Ivorians of the ivory tower have decided that after much bleating, beating of chests, gnashing of teeth and scratching of arses, that they could not be bothered to take part in the forthcoming election and save Ireland for the rest of us.

Jury to resume deliberations in Cunningham murder trial

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

The jury in the case of a Polish man on trial for the “quiet and deadly” murder of a 20-year-old man outside a Galway nightclub, will begin its second day of deliberations at the Central Criminal Court today (Thursday).

Ó Cuív fails to become new Fianna Fáil leader

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Connemara based TD Éamon Ó Cuív failed in his bid to become the eight leader of Fianna Fáil yesterday, despite speculation over a last minute surge in support.

The new leader of the party is former foreign affairs minister Michael Martin, who himself lost a leadership challenge to Brian Cowen only last week. Minister Ó Cuív is understood to have come second.

Fianna Fail — The show is over, get off the stage

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

The political drama of the last while is beginning to wear on us now. We’ve seen and heard it all. We don’t want to be lied to anymore. We don’t want to see the likes of Brian Cowen anymore or his lying ministers. We don’t want to see the legal eagle Lenihan spinning us his economics the way he’d spin a defence to get a gurrier off the hook in court. The likes of Dermot Ahern and Noel Dempsey shaking their heads and lying to us, treating us like fools. Jumped up teachers and solicitors and people who never had a real job in the real world, but who were coccooned in a bubble at our expense.

Cycling and pedestrian groups have ‘no confidence’ in council roads spending plans

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

The Galway Cycling Campaign has given a “no confidence” vote in the Galway City Council’s ability to use the recently allocated NRA funding of €4.325 million to effectively improve safety and infrastructure for cyclists on the city’s roadways.

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