Hospice ascent of Reek a great success
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
The recent annual Croagh Patrick climb in aid of Galway Hospice was a huge success, setting a new record with more than 1,000 climbers taking part, an increase of 800 on the previous year.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh marks quarter of a century with bumper programme
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto, Irish star Saoirse Ronan, and Sex Pistols documentary and film maker Julian Temple, are coming to Galway for the 25th Galway Film Fleadh from Tuesday July 9 to Sunday 14.
The fleadh was launched in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Tuesday and this year’s programme features the usual high standards of Irish and world cinema, including feature length films, shorts, animations, and documentaries.
Read more ...JKF - 50th Anniversary of presidential Visit to Galway
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
It lasted only an hour, but for a generation of Galwegians it was a momentous occasion, one that gave a city and a population emerging from the oppressive 1950s, a much needed boost of confidence. It was the day US president John F Kennedy came to visit.
Read more ...Walsh tells Taoiseach and colleagues of potentially career-ending decision
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Brian Walsh has become the third member of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party and the second Galway West politician to declare he will vote against the forthcoming Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.
Dep Walsh, TD for Galway West, and the leading Fine Gael politician in the constituency, had already signalled his intent to vote against the Bill, citing the inclusion of the suicide ideation as the reason for his opposition.
Read more ...Threats made to staff at UHG where significant improvements have been made, meeting hears
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
A report by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) into the death of Savita Halappanavar is due to be published by the end of the summer, the first public meeting of the board of the Galway and Roscommon University Hospitals Group heard this week.
Read more ...50 years since JFK, but it may as well be a hundred
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Over the course of the next week, you will be regaled with anecdotes about the day the most famous man in the world came to Galway and how for one day, everything came to a standstill. And how the snapshots in our mind, whether they be colour or black and white were forever crystallised on those heady days and in the sad months that followed, as reality became legend and legend became myth.
Read more ...Men questioned about €400,000 Tuam drugs haul
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Two men were being questioned at Galway Garda Station this week after a major joint operation resulted in the seizure in the Tuam area of herbal cannabis worth an estimated street value of €400,000.
Galway Garda Station confirmed yesterday at the time this paper was going to press, that two suspects, both aged in their forties and with addresses in Galway county, were still being questioned.
Read more ...Yeats’ tower at Ballylee to reopen in September
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
The famous holiday home of WB Yeats and his family, Thoor Ballylee, near Gort, could soon be in the hands of a local interest group and the county council.
Read more ...Athenry doctor leads the way in treating heart valve disease
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Brian P Griffin, cardiologist at the world famous Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, who is a native of Athenry and graduate of NUI Galway, visited the Croí Heart and Stroke Centre in Galway last weekend to speak to doctors and nurses on current developments in the treatment of heart valve disease.
Read more ...Remove graffiti on Fisheries Tower now demands McNelis
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Graffiti that was sprayed on the Fisheries Tower must be removed immediately Labour city councillor Niall McNelis has demanded.
Niall McNelis has called graffiti “a nuisance” in the city and is calling on the gardaí to take steps against it.
Read more ...Galway families face surge in health insurance costs warns Kitt
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Galway families could see their health insurance soar by a further 30 per cent under new legislation being introduced by the Health Minister James Reilly.
Read more ...Athenry considered for connection to the natural gas grid
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Athenry is to be considered for connection to the natural gas grid after Bord Gais Networks and Gaslink carried out a study of towns not connected to the gas network.
Read more ...Public lecture on Galway’s Blake family
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
THE BLAKE family, one of Galway’s 14 Tribes, will be the subject of a public lecture in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2pm.
Read more ...Film fleadh nominees for Bingham Ray New Talent Award
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
FIVE RISING stars in acting, directing, writing, producing, and cinematography have been nominated for the Galway film Fleadh’s Bingham Ray New Talent Award.
Read more ...Anti-home tax group to run candidates in city and county
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
The Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes group will field candidates in the 2014 Local Elections across Galway city and most areas of the county.
Read more ...Man accused of harassment, assault, and threats sent for trial
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
A 26-year-old man charged with assaulting a woman, threatening to kill or cause serious harm, and harassing her on a number of occasions including at a hospital, has been sent forward for trial.
Read more ...Give Galway fair share of energy efficiency upgrade says Nolan
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Galway deserves to get its “fair share of energy efficiency upgrades” for local authority houses, Labour TD Derek Nolan has demanded.
Read more ...Galway pensioners overpaying on phone charges says Ó Cuív
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Slashing the free telephone allowance has left many older people in Galway paying “disproportionately high telephone bills they cannot afford”.
Read more ...Galway City Mayor to honour 1940s rescue hero
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Galway City Mayor, Cllr Terry O’Flahery, will today, June 20, unveil a commemorative seat in honour of Lawrence Craughwell at Blackrock in Salthill at 2.30pm.
Read more ...Shock over racist posts on Merlin Woods Friends Facebook page
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
Members of a Galway Facebook site were shocked and concerned by racist comments which appeared on their page recently, leading to fears that internet racism may be a growing phenomenon.
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