NUIG to host public talk on Ireland’s asylum seeker system

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

A public meeting examining the asylum seeker system, the effects of dispersal, and recent events at Lisbrook House asylum seeker accommodation centre will be held on Wednesday, November 7, at 8pm in the O’Flaherty Theatre, NUI Galway.

Organised by the United Left Alliance the event is a public talk entitled Deportation, Direct Provision, and Dispersal: How cases like Lisbrook show the inhumanity of the asylum system in Ireland.

Learn circus tricks at school

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

Students can learn how circus performers make use of scientific principles in their tricks and stunts at the 15th Galway Science and Technology Festival which runs from November 12 to 25 at local primary and secondary schools in the city and county.

‘Girls night out’ in Claregalway to raise funds for cure for rare cancer

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

A “Girls Night Out” in Claregalway next week aims to raise vital funds to find a cure for a rare form of cancer which affects a local four-year-old child.

Collection day for Galway Mountain Rescue Team

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

Galway Mountain Rescue Team will hold its annual collection day this weekend, and is appealing to the public to support this worthy cause.

Five per cent of Galwegians need specialist eye care

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

By Five per cent of Galway residents tested positive for age-related macular degeneratio (AMD), a leading cause of blindness, and have since been referred on to an eye specialist.

These medical examinations were conducted during AMD Awareness Week (September 22 to September 30), and the condition which the five per cent were symptomatic of is known to be the most common cause of registered blindness in Ireland and other western countries. This statistic indicates that the number of people in Galway with AMD is below the national average of 10 per cent.

Today is the start of Movember

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

Many great men have sported moustaches - Albert Einstein, Friedrich Engels, Ghandi, Salvador Dalí, Freddie Mercury, Friedrich Nietzsche - and Galwaymen have a chance to join their ranks this month.

Galway’s Oxfam shop urgently needs donations

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

Oxfam Ireland is appealing to the people of Galway to Make Space for Oxfam and donate any items that are taking up space in their wardrobes and home to their local Oxfam shop that is located in the heart of Galway city on 9 Lower Abbeygate Street.

Autumn lecture series continues at Claregalway castle

Thu, Nov 01, 2012

The autumn history lecture series 'Journey Through Time' continues at Claregalway Castle on Saturday with the penultimate lecture.

Tuam community unites in grief to mourn loss of two sisters

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

A tight-knit community was plunged into mourning this week following a fatal road traffic accident at the weekend which claimed the lives of two-year-old girl and her three-month-old sister.

Athenry businesses host ‘Zombie Thriller Remake’ for Croi

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Local Athenry business professionals are intent on reinstating the entertainment quaility in the town by hosting a ‘Zombie Thriller Remake’ on Saturday, October 27 in Athenry Square at 10pm. The proceeds of the event will be donated to Croi.

You can access footage of the momentous spectacle on YouTube as residents from all age brackets attemp to reinact the late Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller. It will be an all inclusive event and everyone is urged to participate. A make-up station will be open from 8pm for anyone who want to get the zombie features which will give the video greater authenticity, and anyone interested in taking part is encouraged to dress ‘dead’ smart for the occasion. If you want to revise those much adored dance moves then the music video is on YouTube, or simply just arrive on the night and join in with your own routine.

Galway charity cope wants to hear your views

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

COPE Galway is currently preparing the strategic plan for the period 2013 – 2015.

Siobhan McKenna Road bottle bank is an ‘ugly eyesore’

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Residents are fed up with the overflowing bottle bank and abandoned rubbish at Siobhan McKenna Road which has now become an “ugly eyesore” according to city councillor Padraig Conneely who has called for immediate action to be taken.

Knocknacarra school project culminates in new public sculpture

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

A new public art installation at Knocknacarra National School will be unveiled by the Minister of State for Training and Skills tomorrow at 9.30am.

US company announces thirty new jobs in the city

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Galway received a boost yesterday with the announcement that mobile innovation company Synchronoss Technologies Inc is creating 30 new jobs in the city.

Dress up for the the music drive in aid of Barnardos

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Supermac’s will host a Halloween party with a difference at its Headford Road restaurant tomorrow.

Debate needed on Children’s Referendum

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

With three weeks remaining before Irish citizens vote on an amendment to the constitution, information on the proposed changes arrived in most letter boxes this week.

Irish drama scholars gather in Galway for international conference

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Leading scholars of Irish drama will gather in Galway this week for the Irish Society for Theatre Research annual conference.

Through the glass darkly

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Those who have been forced through serious illness – I am thinking now of cancer - to confront and acknowledge the existence within them of a mindless ‘malignancy’, whose baneful efflorescence aims at their damage or destruction, will, at some point, be faced with the burden of finding some way to cope with this dark knowledge.

Ex-taxi driver given six months for assault on passenger

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Taxi driving is an honourable profession and the court expects drivers to behave in a respectable manner, said a district court judge before imposing a six month sentence on a man who demanded more money from a passenger, despite setting a fixed fare, and then proceeded to viciously punch and kick him, leaving the wounded man on the side of a dark dangerous country road.

NUIG helps Abbey to put Irish theatre archives on line

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

The digital archive partnership between NUI Galway and the Abbey Theatre was unveiled in the Abbey Theatre Dublin on Monday by President Michael D Higgins.

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