New jobs for Galway as Sogeti announces expansion plans

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

A leading IT consultancy and services provider has announced that a number of jobs in Galway will be created, as well as in Dublin, through the expansion of its offices over the next three years.

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Richard Bruton, announced on Tuesday that Sogeti, which has offices located in the Galway Technology Centre in Mervue, is to create 65 new jobs. Recruitment is already in progress and it is understood that there has been high interest shown in the positions which will be a mix of high skilled and graduate roles in the IT sector.

Tributes paid to former county manager Donal O’Donoghue

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Sen Michael Mullins has paid tribute to former county manager Donal O’Donoghue, who died this week.

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

NUI Galway is to link up with two leading Chinese universities to further research and facilitate student and researcher exchanges between Galway and China.

Boost as NUI Galway forges links with Chinese universities

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

NUI Galway is to link up with two leading Chinese universities to further research and facilitate student and researcher exchanges between Galway and China.

Galway Fianna Fáil made ‘sober and realistic’ by damning Mahon Tribunal report

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

It has taken the full impact of the Mahon Report to bring home to many Galway Fianna Fáil members that it is likely to remain a minority party for a long time to come.

Who’s gonna blink first?

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Go ahead punk, make my day. Just picture the scene. Dirty Harry aka Phil Hogan pointing his pistol in the face of the nation and asking “Do you feel lucky, You’re asking, did I fire five or did I fire six?” Yes, folk’s with just 72 hours until the deadline for the Household Charge, the country and the Government are playing the ultimate game of brinksmanship.

It is a case of waiting to see who is going to blink first and if the million or so households which have not yet registered blink, the flap of those eyelashes will represent a major coup for Minister Hogan and the Government.

Tributes paid to former county manager Donal O’Donoghue

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Sen Michael Mullins has paid tribute to former county manager Donal O’Donoghue, who died this week.

New jobs for Galway as Sogeti announces expansion plans

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

A leading IT consultancy and services provider has announced that a number of jobs in Galway will be created, as well as in Dublin, through the expansion of its offices over the next three years.

Julie Feeney to play ten nights off-Broadway

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Julie Feeney, the award winning Athenry born vocalist and composer is heading to New York where she will perform in a new off-Broadway music show.

Top restaurants in Galway announced at regional finals of Irish Restaurants Awards

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Galway’s top restaurants were named this week in the regional finals of the Santa Rita/Sunday Independent Life magazine Irish Restaurant Awards, which took place in The House Hotel on Tuesday.

Old Barracks gets thumbs up from Georgina Campbell

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Athenry’s new restaurant of Choice “The Old Barracks” on Cross St. has recently received a glowing recommendation from Georginal Campbell’s Ireland.

Joyces Supermarkets Giveaway could see you wired for sound and vision this summer

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

From next week, Joyces Supermarkets are giving all of their customers a chance to win some fantastic electrical prizes .

With a week to go, Ó Cuív calls for extension of Household Charge deadline

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

With only nine days to the deadline for the payment of the highly controversial household charge, many homes in Galway city and county have still not received an information leaflet.

This, alongside the general feeling of a lack of proper information from the Government regarding what the €100 will be used for, and concerns over the inequalities with payment procedures, has led to Fianna Fáil Galway West TD Éamon Ó Cuív to call for an extension on the Household Charge deadline.

Mayor of Galway city announces gearrliosta for Gradam

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

The Mayor of Galway City, Cllr. Hildegarde Naughton last week announced the finalists of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2012 at a press event which took place as part of the Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations in the Eyre Square Centre.

Compántas Lir brings classic American comedy to Town Hall Theatre for two-night run next week

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Local drama group Compantas Lir brings its awardwinning production of the classic American comedy The Curious Savage to the Town Hall Theatre in Galway next week.

The play will have its only Galway city run at the Town Hall Theatre on Friday and Saturday March 30 and 31.

Clifden celebrates twinning ceremony

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

The picturesque west coast town of Clifden has this week been officially twinned with the beautiful seaside town of Plourazel in the province of Brittany in northwest France.

NUIG boy band films music video for charity

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Forget Westlife, Boyzone, or even One Direction, and make way for the new kids on the block, a group of NUI Galway students who have donned the obligatory matching white outfits, plastered the cheesy grins, and brought their dodgy syncronised dance moves not just to the campus grounds, but to the streets of Galway, and to a YouTube audience all in aid of a very worthy cause.

Although I doubt Louis Walsh will be rushing down to get signatures on the dotted line, the new NUI Galway boy band have recorded the charity music video, ‘NUIG Wants It That Way’ to raise much-needed funds for 1LIFE suicide prevention charity. The video was uploaded to YouTube just last Monday and has proven to be an instant hit having attracted more than 23,000 views by yesterday afternoon. The video, a comic take on the ‘I want it that way’ song by Backstreet Boys, is sponsored by Supermacs and WeSession and each view will raise 50 cent for the chosen charity.

Yummy — Galway Food Festival launches a feast of a programme

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Promising to be a feast for the taste-buds, the Galway Food Festival has launched its programme of events which will help bring alive this taste-tastic festival taking place throughout Galway city and its environs during the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, from Friday April 6 to MondayApril 9.

Yourells team don their daffodils for Irish Cancer Society

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Yourells Hair Salon on Eyre Street is supporting Daffodil Day tomorrow (Friday) by helping to raise vital funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The salon is donating €5 from every treatment on Daffodil Day to the charity to help support the cancer nursing services in the country.

€4 million for Galway housing stock improvements

Thu, Mar 22, 2012

Housing stock in Galway city and county is set to benefit from significant improvement works to existing supply, as well as the provision of additional social and voluntary housing, after it was announced this week that funding of nearly €4 million has been allocated to both local authorities.

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