Covid-19 lab test equipment for UHG delivers quicker test results

Thu, Nov 12, 2020

The laboratory at Galway University Hospitals has begun Covid-19 testing using a new high-throughput molecular PCR machine. The new equipment will enable the laboratory to process up to 500 swabs from patients per day, with a turnaround of approximately three hours per batch.

Back west... There is more happening than you think!

Wed, Nov 11, 2020

One year ago, we told you, ‘Back west.. There is more happening than you think ‘when we were letting the world know that we were the place to be after dark. With 14 Bars, 20 Restaurants and 5 Late Night venues, the west was truly awake when the sun went down.

Fantasy Football review

Wed, Nov 11, 2020

With the international break on the horizon, it gives us a chance at Advertiser Towers to have a look back at my top tips and to see whether I have the golden touch or need to be doing more homework on my football.

Former Corrib Great Southern Hotel to be demolished in December

Mon, Nov 09, 2020

The former Corrib Great Southern Hotel on the Dublin Road, long considered one of the city’s worst eyesores, will be demolished in December.

€13 million allocated for Galway greenways

Mon, Nov 09, 2020

Government funding of €13.25 million has been allocated for Galway greenways as part of a €63.5 million nationwide investment in cycleways and walkways.

Canney highlights issues facing people with disabilities to committee

Mon, Nov 09, 2020

At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Disabilities Matters, Deputy Sean Canney raised some of the issues facing people with disabilities.

Hospitals will not have to activate surge plan, says Saolta chief

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs seven public hospitals in the west and north-west of the country, is optimistic that the organisation will not have to activate its surge plan to cope with the growing demand for services due to Covid-19.

‘You have been failed,’ says Taoiseach in Dail to Galwaywoman whose cancer diagnosis was missed

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

A Galwaywoman whose cancer diagnosis was missed has this week received an apology in the Dail from Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

Jobs boost for city as two hundred posts to be created in tech giant Diligent Corporation’s European HQ

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

More than 200 jobs are to be created in Galway by a global technology company following the establishment of its European headquarters in the city.

National Park City – a game changer for Galway

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Last Thursday, President Michael D. Higgins gave a powerful thought-provoking speech to an online (via Webex) meeting of people of all ages drawn from a wide strata of local society on why the movement towards transforming Galway into a National Park City is so crucial at this particular time in human history due to unprecedented climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics, and why it can be a template for other cities in Ireland to follow.

The Schoolwear Centre will remain open with staff and customer safety paramount

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Further to the latest Level 5 restrictions, The Schoolwear Centre want to let you know that it will remain open.

Councillor calls for public bike repair and pump stations

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Fianna Fáil councillor Alan Cheevers is calling on the Galway City Council to provide public bike repair and pump stations across the cycling network in the city.

Cheevers said; “This [proposal] comes with the new cycle lanes that are also coming on stream right across the city. [Public bike repair and pump stations] provides a winning combination in that it provides bike owners the opportunity to repair bikes and pump tyres in one convenient place. It is perfect for public areas.

Farrell not surprised at available HAP rental figures

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

The findings from the Simon Community’s Locked Out of The Market survey were not surprising says Sinn Féin TD for Galway West/South Mayo Mairéad Farrell.

The survey reports for the consecutive fourth study period, no rental properties in Galway city fall within Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) limits.

COVID-19 lab test equipment for Galway University Hospitals delivers quicker test results

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

The laboratory at Galway University Hospitals has begun COVID-19 testing using a new high-throughput molecular PCR machine. The new equipment will enable the laboratory to process up to 500 swabs from patients per day, with a turnaround of approximately three hours per batch. Until now the laboratory was carrying out COVID-19 batch testing on two separate machines with a turnaround of up to 10 hours and a maximum of 300 tests per day.

The world waits to heal itself

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Perhaps this was the week when we thought the world would start to heal itself, when a new sort of leadership would emerge to replace the dark days of the past few years.

Kyne raises the frustration over major local health projects with Minister

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Seán Kyne, Fine Gael senator in Galway has welcomed confirmation that construction has started on the new €62 million radiation oncology at UHG following disruption caused by Covid-19.

He raised the progress of the radiation oncology centre and the status of the Emergency Department with Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, at Wednesday’s meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health of which Senator Kyne is a member.

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Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Burglary in Knocknacarra
Gardai in Salthill are appealing for information following a burglary at a house in Fana Burca, Knocknacarra last week.

NUI Galway and GMIT get €1.7m for upgrades, Covid measures and remote learning

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

NUI Galway and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) have been awarded an additional €1.7 million for investment in campus upgrades, Covid-19 measures, and distance learning infrastructure.

Why a political revolt by Ireland’s under twenty fives is now a certainty

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

One recent evening Insider watched the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film La Chinoise in which a small group of French students sit around their apartment, located in what is described as a “workers’ district”, and engage in theatrical discussions about how they must overthrow the bourgeoise and, in particular, the hierarchal French university system which saw students as passive receivers of knowledge handed down by their god-like professors, rather than participants in a dialectical exchange in which both students and teachers learn from each other and grow as a result. No one, with the exception of chairman Mao, is radical enough for most of these students. The French Communist Party which, to draw an Irish parallel, would have been more or less the political equivalent of present day Sinn Féin, is condemned as hopelessly “revisionist”. The Soviet Union, in particular its then president, the now largely forgotten Mr Kosygin, is convicted by the students at their kitchen table discussions of failing to do enough to support the Vietnamese in their war against Lyndon Johnson. And the French working class, with whom said kitchen table debaters absolutely sympathise, are seen as hopelessly passive. In a mix of desperation, madness, and idealism, the students decide to mount a campaign of terrorism, which will involve them doing something they have singularly failed to do for most of the film; getting up from that kitchen table and going outside. They plan to kill the visiting Soviet minister for culture who has been invited by President de Gaulle’s own culture minister, the novelist and decayed Stalinist intellectual Andre Malraux, to open a new wing of the university. After that, they hope to bomb the Sorbonne in the belief that this will spark a revolution. Insider is against blowing up universities. Partly because he knows such actions more often provoke backlash than revolution. But also because Insider happens to teach at a university and coming out in favour of blowing up universities might lead to an awkward email from one’s department head.

Most homeless households headed by women, Galway Simon report launch is told

Thu, Nov 05, 2020

Up to two thirds of family households affected by homelessness are headed by women, the launch of the Galway Simon Community annual report was told this week.

The homelessness and housing charity’s 2019 report revealed that the organisation supported 646 local households last year, a total of 1,191 individuals, through their Homelessness Prevention and Housing Services. This was a 17 per cent increase in households supported compared to 2018 and was the largest number of people the charity has ever supported.

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