New Inn gets ready for influx of mummers

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

When everyone else is enjoying the Christmas break, the committee of the New Inn Mummers Festival will be putting the final touches to arrangements for the annual festival which takes place on Saturday night January 4 and Sunday afternoon January 5 in the leisure centre.

NUI Galway alumni Christmas get-together this evening

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

The NUI Galway Alumni Club is holding its annual alumni Christmas get-together this evening from 5.30pm to 8pm in the Aula Maxima, The Quadrangle, NUI Galway.

Graduates are invited to attend and meet former classmates from home and abroad to revisit old memories and stories with carols, mince pies, and festive refreshments.

Minister Bruton launches €88 million SFI data analytics research centre

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

Insight, a new research centre for data analytics run by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), has been officially announced by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation Richard Bruton and the Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock.

Budget backs ‘Brand Galway’and Capital of Culture bid

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

The development of ‘Brand Galway’ and undertaking a review of major venues in the city to ensure a sucessful bid for the European Capital of Culture in 2020 are just some of the economic initiatives that are being promoted and funded in the Galway City Council draft Budget 2014.

Budget fund essential for community involvement at Knocknacarra Community Centre, says Keane

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

The fight for national funding to provide even more sporting amenities and further promote community involvement at facilities such as the Knocknacarra Community Centre has been made even stronger by provisions in Budget 2014, according to Fianna Fáil city councillor Peter Keane.

Speaking ahead of a special meeting tomorrow at City Hall to discuss the draft Budget 2014, Cllr Keane welcomed the inclusion in the estimates of a Capital Sports and Recreation Fund which will be ring-fenced by Galway City Council and used as a matched-funding source for local authority applications for capital sports and recreation funding in 2014. He confirmed that provision had been made to ring-fence the sum of €75,000 in 2014 which would be carried forward in circumstances where the National Capital Sports Grants 2014 are unlikely to be allocated until late 2014/early 2015.

UHG cancer centre dealt with 43,000 referrals in one year

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

More than 43,000 referrals were made to University Hospital Galway’s cancer centre last year.

Civic and religious leaders gather for silver anniversary Christmas Messages radio programme

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

Galway’s civic and religious leaders will be delivering their Christmas messages on Galway Bay fm on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

City manager has “no hesitation” in recommending positive 2014 Budget

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

Galway city manager Brendan McGrath has confirmed that he will have “no hesitation” in recommending the adoption of the 2014 Budget which he describes as “positive” and one that will serve Galway well.

Funding of €20,000 for improvements to the Ballyloughane beach road

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

Improvements are to be carried out on Ballyloughane beach road following representations made to Galway City Council to councillor Terry O’Flaherty who confirmed yesterday that the sum of €20,000 has been provided in the road works budget programme for next year.

City Manager has ‘no hesitation’ with positive 2014 Budget

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

Galway city manager Brendan McGrath has confirmed that he will have “no hesitation” in recommending the adoption of the 2014 Budget which he describes as “positive” and one that will serve Galway well.

One hundred people a day call the Samaritans in Galway

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

The office of the Samaritans at 14 Nuns Island Galway received approximately 33,700 contacts in the last twelve months — almost one hundred contacts to its centre every day of the year.

Council issues storm surge warning for the city

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

The Salthill Promenade, Grattan Road, and the Fishmarket at the Spanish Arch are at serious risk from high flood over next few days, leading the Galway City Council to issue a storm surge warning.

Council row over disputed claims that Leisureland is losing €12,000 a week

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

Branded as a “noose” around Galway City Council’s neck, an audit report has found that Leisureland continues to lose money suffering a loss of more than €620,000 last year. However, this figure is being disputed by councillors on the facility’s board of directors who maintain the deficit is actually €180,000.

Audit expresses concern over inadequacy of Council’s fixed asset register

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

Councillors have called on Galway City Council to “get it together” and draw up an accurate register of fixed assets throughout the city after an independent audit report expressed concerns over the inadequacy of the registration progress.

Higgins calls for stand-alone bank for farmers

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

Establishing a new stand-alone bank for farmers is the only solution to the closure of the ACC Bank and the increasing dominance of AIB and Bank of Ireland in the State’s banking sector.

Contract for €1.7 million Westside sports and recreational facilities formally signed

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

The formal signing of the contract for the €1.7 million Westside sports and recreational facilities is great news for the people of Westside and both St Michael’s and Corrib Rangers Club, according to city councillor Colette Connolly who welcomed the confirmation that Crawfords is the successful bidder.

Anti-Austerity Alliance to run candidate in city centre

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

Sean Byrne has been selected as the Anti-Austerity Alliance’s Galway City Central candidate for next May’s Local Elections.

Warm welcome for Galway city’s newest representative

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

Listening to the concerns of the people and working to ensure a safe city that embraces multiculturalism, that anti-social behaviour is stamped out, and infrastructure projects such as the Galway City Outer Bypass are progressed, are just some of the ways Galway’s newest city councillor Michelle Murphy hopes to make a difference.

Students to hold vigil at shell of addiction centre to highlight concerns over move

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

A group of NUI Galway students will hold a vigil outside the shell of a burned down addiction counselling centre in Merlin Park next week to highlight their concern over a plan to relocate the service to the psychiatric unit at UHG.

Don’t resurrect the rod licence says Nolan

Thu, Dec 12, 2013

Raising money for the State by imposing a rod licence on anglers could “reignite the rod licence war”, which proved a highly bitter and controversial issue in the late eighties.

This is the message fishermen in Galway have delivered to Labour Galway West TD Derek Nolan, but Dep Nolan said there is “no possibility” of a licence being introduced, a statement that was echoed by the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment Fergus O’Dowd, who said “there was no way a rod licence would be acceptable”.

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