Field starts to take shape with just a week to go

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Roll up, roll up, roll up, for the next week you are Willie Wonka, the chocolate maker, and you have it in your power to make someone very very happy indeed. You are the holder of the key to the kingdom, the keeper of the Golden Ticket for nine individuals who after your consideration are set to benefit enormously through your trust of their general capabilities to represent you and your area for the next five years.

And it truly is a Golden Ticket, because you will be granting these individuals a €1 million gift — five years of circa €100k wages and circa €100K expenses, plus all the rubber chicken they can eat. So they’d better be worth it. To be fair most of you have given them great training. You have grilled them and abused them and listened to their argument and accepted it or dismissed it. And tomorrow week you get the one true chance to let them know what you think of them.

Just six candidates will battle it out for the five seats, poll shows

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Brian Walsh, Eamon O Cúiv, Noel Grealish, Derek Nolan, Fidelma Healy-Eames and Catherine Connolly; these are the six candidates from whom the five successful T.D.'s for Galway West are expected to emerge, according to the Galway Advertiser poll published in today's paper.

How the regions voted in the opinion poll

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

While overall Galway West mosly mirrrors the national average in terms of it’s support for the various political parties, it’s various local authority regions manage to somewhat buck those very same trends.

Galway West is turning blue

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Charles J Haughey may have been born in Castlebar, but the west of Ireland will get it’s first proper taoiseach when Enda Kenny assumes the position after February 25.

Skilled workforce and universities key factors to Fidelity expansion

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A highly skilled workforce and research carried out by top-calibre Irish universities were key factors in the decicion by US multinational Fidelity Investments to expand its operations here with the view of creating some 75 new jobs at its Galway base.

Walker discovers body of missing man at Claddagh Basin

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A large-scale search operation, which had gone into its fourth day, ended yesterday morning following the grim discovery of the missing man’s body at the Claddagh Basin.

Fahey tells Ó Cuív and Grealish to ‘stop playing politics’ over flooding

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey has called on his party colleague Éamon Ó Cuív and former Government colleague Noel Grealish to “stop raising false hopes” among those whose homes were flooded in 2009.

Ryan’s fashion show to raise funds for Western Alzheimer’s

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Fashionistas can look forward to a feast of fashion at Anthony Ryan’s Spring fashion show which takes place at the Ardilaun on Tuesday March 8 at 8.30pm.

Fibromyalgia support group to meet in city next month

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A support group for people suffering from fibromyalgia will hold its first meeting on Tuesday March 1 from 7.30 to 9pm at Galway Cheshire House, Curragrean, Merlin Park.

Future meetings will take place on the first Tuesday of each month at the same time.

Galway motorists paying up to €700 to repair pothole damage to vehicles

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Calls are flooding in to Galway county councillors on a daily basis regarding burst tyres and the dangerous conditions of the roads, with some motorists paying out more than €700 to repair damage caused by massive potholes.

The arts have a social and economic value, artists tell politicians

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

The need to defend and support the arts in a climate of economic devastation, a political ideology of savage cuts to front line services, and ‘socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor’ has never been more pressing.

Man denies threatening bouncers over barrier obstruction

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

An ex-business man who quarrelled with bouncers at a city centre nightclub over the perceived dangers and permission to erect barriers on a public footpath denied shouting threats and pointing his fingers aggressively, saying he was simply remonstrating.

The Galway District Court heard on Monday how Thomas Ryan had attracted the ire of bouncers after he tried to move a barrier out of his way and then attempted to enquire if they had permission for the obstruction. The hearing was also told that the 63-year-old had been so aggressive towards the bouncers that passing gardai had to intervene.

€72m local hospital expansion plan to become a reality in short term, confirms Frank Fahey

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A €72 million expansion plan for University and Merlin Park Hospitals will transform both facilities, improving capacity, updating theatres and easing the pressure on UHG’s emergency department.

Man who broke into Shantalla national school is jailed

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A 25-year-old man who broke into a city national school while on a concoction of alcohol and medication has been sentenced to six months in jail.

Theological science fiction

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

My title is not a sop to what one writer has wittily dubbed the ‘Dawkins Ascendency’, a group which no doubt would be delighted to banish theology to the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Into the dustbin with one of the oldest ways mankind has used to throw light on the fundamental questions of existence. And only a blinkered arrogance would dare discard any means or methods we possess in trying to answer them.

Launch of new Galway Ocean Sports Centre

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

The Galway Ocean Sports Centre, which will provide facilities for all watersports organisations in the city and the region, is to be officially launched by Minister Éamon Ó Cuív tomorrow, February 18, at 5.30pm.

Fós ag fanacht ar chruinniú

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Agus an colún seo á scríobh bhí iarrachtaí fós ar siúl chun cruinniú a shocrú idir Enda Kenny agus toscaireacht ó bhreis agus 20 eagraíocht Ghaeltachta, Gaeilge, oideachais, agus óige maidir le polasaí Fhine Gael deireadh a chur leis an nGaeilge mar chroí-ábhar Ardteiste.

Bean an Tí sa Chistin

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Agus mná tí na Gaeltachta go mór sa nuacht agus iad ag troid in aghaidh pholasaí Ghaeilge Fhine Gael, seans go gcuirfear spéis faoi leith sa tsraith Bean an Tí sa Chistin, sraith nua atá le craoladh ar TG4.

Buaiteoirí Ghlór na nGael i nGaillimh

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Fógraíodh roinnt de thorthaí chomórtas náisiúnta Ghlór na nGael ar chlár Seán Bán Breathnach ar Raidió na Gaeltachta Dé hAoine seo caite. Go deimhin bualadh bob ar Sheán nuair a fógraíodh le linn an chláir gurbh é féin a bhí ainmnithe do Ghradam Ghlór na nGael i mbliana.

Poll indicates collapse of Fianna Fail vote

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Say something often enough and it will come true. At every election Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey has made dire predictions about his political health and warned he is in danger of losing his seat.

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