Student nurses threaten strike action over ‘slave’ wages

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Student nurses are threatening to strike next month over plans to introduce “savage” pay cuts which they say will amount to them working for “slave” wages.

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.

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.

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”.

This is the view of Galway East Independent candidate councillor Sean Canney who has described as “ a gross obscenity”, the massive lump sums and pension payments which politicians receive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This popular excuse for a get together offers groups of eight or more the chance to taste and to share various tapas from different regions throughout Spain including eight exciting meat, fish and vegetable dishes. The menu is only available for the month of February.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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