Crafting a livelihood — Buying Irish maintains a tradition of design

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

For over 51 years, the Kilkenny Group has been synonymous with supporting Irish craft and design. As we lead in to our third annual Kilkenny Irish Craft & Design Week (running until Sunday next, this year sponsored by AXA) I have been reflecting on the reasons we decided to start this campaign back in 2012 and on how it has grown year on year.

Art could have made a difference

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

Baboró International Arts Festival for Children starts this weekend and runs until Sunday October 19. As part of our Baboró Ambassadors series we hear from Baboró enthusiasts. This week, we hear from Niall Barrett…

Happiness is a hearty breakfast

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

John Gunther once said, “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” As winter approaches, breakfast becomes ever more important to fuel us on these colder days. Eat yourself happy this winter at The Glenoaks Hotel, where you will be off to a good start with a healthy breakfast.

The Glenoaks Hotel has recently launched a breakfast loyalty club at its Library Cafe, Bar & Bistro. There you will find a hot hearty Irish breakfast starting from as little as €6 with a full choice of breakfasts that includes full traditional Irish, continental style, organic porridge, fresh fruit granola, and a delicious Eastern inspired vegetarian option. Pick up a loyalty card, join the hearty breakfast club, and you will be rewarded with a free breakfast. A great value breakfast will be sure to keep a soul happy this winter.

New Rural Transport Programme HQ to be located in Connemara

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

Three transport groups from across County Galway are joining together to form Galway County Transport Co-ordination Unit.

Last call for Mike Diskin Bursary applications

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

The Michael Diskin Arts Award will close to applicants on Friday October 17 at 5pm, following a one-month extension to its original application deadline.

Out of darkness, a light beckons

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

On Tuesday evening, as I left the office and was making my way to the car, I spotted a couple. Obviously tourists because they were holding hands with that foreign great hair look about them, with colourful jackets and a bearing that made them stand apart from the Irish, but blend in with the hundreds of visitors on the street at that time.

City Hall to debate motion to oppose water tax

Tue, Oct 07, 2014

Struggling Galway families should not be expected to pay €500 a year for water, especially when there are non-taxation methods available to fund water infrastructure.

Floods likely at Spanish Arch and Promenade warns city council

Mon, Oct 06, 2014

The Salthill Promenade, Grattan Road, and the Spanish Arch are at risk of flooding throughout the week from a combination of high tides and high winds.

BakeFest to rake in a million in bread for city

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

Galway is set for a €1 million windfall this weekend when 10,000 visitors arrive in the city for BakeFest Galway.

The two day festival is now in its second year and takes place in Leisureland from 10am on Saturday and Sunday. The event is Ireland’s biggest baking festival and competition and some of Ireland’s top chefs will be in attendance sharing their baking skills and secrets.

GRASSROOTS: Water charges - the heaviest austerity measure yet

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

Question - What country had a Robin Hood 90 per cent tax rate on its wealthiest citizens? The Soviet Union? Cuba? No; the United States. And lots of European countries as well.

Judah Friedlander - ‘I kept hearing people talk about Galway. I thought ‘I gotta go there’

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

On the comedy stage, Judah Friedlander is The World Champion. He is the best athlete in the world, greatest martial artist, the sexual dream of every woman, and a role model to children.

Water charges are first step to privatisation warns Connolly

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

Water services will go the way of refuse collection in Galway with privatisation a virtual certainty in the near future, Independent city councillor Catherine Connolly has warned.

Crowe - FG dispute on Galway Harbour could cost city hundreds of jobs

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

A development which could lead to the creation of as many as 1,000 jobs is far too important to be used as a ‘political football’ between rival Fine Gael interests in Galway and Limerick.

3,000 new houses needed in Galway to stave off housing crisis

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

An extra 3,000 homes will have to be built if demands for housing are to be met in Galway, meaning the housing crisis is set to escalate further unless serious action is taken.

Margaretta D’Arcy calls on public to support Shannon protests

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

Galwegians are being called on to  join the peace demonstration at Shannon Airport on Sunday October 12 to mark the 13th anniversary of the US military presence there.

Free concert in memory of Manuela Riedo

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

A free musical evening featuring local performers from around Galway will take place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this month as part of a series of events to mark Manuela Riedo’s seventh anniversary.

Teen’s debut CD to help suicide prevention charity

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

A city teenager who lost close friends to suicide has recorded a CD to raise funds for the national suicide prevention and bereavement charity Console.

Help sought in identifying Barna Woods body

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

Gardaí are appealing to the public to help identify a man whose body was discovered in Barna Woods at the weekend.

The body was discovered in the woods on Saturday evening, and while gardaí have yet to establish a time of death it is believed the man had been dead for some time.

Message to the great unwashed

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

OK, we're a day into it, A day into realising that while you may lead a horse to water, when he gets there, the fecker's gonna cost you a few bob. On Tuesday we splashed around in the bathroom like an orgy in the last days of Pompeii, but since then, we've been up half the night trying to ensure that the drop dripping from the tap in the kitchen is captured for the tay for breakfast. So what are we to do? How can we live the lifes of post-Celtic Tiger metrosexuals used to our washing and waxing and shaving and conditioning and scents that could kill an ass from 20 paces. How are we going to cope knowing that everytime you hear a flush, your wallet has a bowel movement? The days and nights of the much coiffured sweet smelling high heeled gelled back brigade hitting the clubs may soon be a thing of the past. Good old poor hygiene of the 70s and 80s will come back into vogue. A shower will become a luxury even if you do manage to get three a month. Lattes will replace straight coffees. Spuds will be steamed not boiled, car washes will become car polishes; horses at the racecourse will have to be rubbed down with a wet Babywipe instead of the traditional hosing. And gorse fires will be let burn burn burn. So life as we know it has changed immeasurably. So what can we do to save a few bob. Here are a few tips.

— Make sure you wear, rewear and then rewear again. In fact wear your clothes til they stink. For a start it is the decree of the State that the citizens will change their underwear every day. Paddy, you can change with Martin. Mary will you change with Sheila...and so on.

Teen’s debut CD to help suicide prevention charity

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

A city teenager who lost close friends to suicide has recorded a CD to raise funds for the national suicide prevention and bereavement charity Console.

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