Connemara Photo Society exhibition

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE CONNEMARA Photo Society will open its inaugural exhibition this evening at 6.30pm at Bridge Street, Clifden.

Lunchtime jazz in the museum

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

A CONCERT of jazz favourites will be performed by the Galway Youth Jazz Orchestra in Galway City Museum this Saturday at 1pm.

Josette Farrell joins Fine Gael

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

Josette Farrell, who ran for Labour in the Oranmore ward in the 2009 local elections, has left the party to join Fine Gael.

Treatment plant needed urgently to clean up Clifden beach

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

Locals and representatives in the Clifden area are renewing their call for a long-awaited wastewater treatment plant to be given the green light following an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report which revealed how a popular beach has failed, six years in a row, to meet basic water quality standards.

European Parliament committee to question council over flooding hardship

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

The Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament is to seek an explanation from Galway County Council regarding the financial hardship suffered by a number of families following the flooding crisis of late 2009.

Local chief fire officer to attend annual conference

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

Local chief fire officer Michael Raftery will join colleagues and industry experts from across Ireland and Europe at the 54th annual chief fire officers’ association conference which will be held in Adare, Co Limerick, from May 4 to 5.

Asian Tea House going for national glory in Irish Restaurant Awards

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

The Asian Tea House in Mary Street in Galway City was acknowledged this month as the top restaurant in Galway city and county in the Santa Rita Irish Restaurant Awards. The restaurant will now compete for the Regional and All- Ireland title which will be announced at the Irish Restaurant Awards in the Burlington Hotel Dublin on Wednesday May 25.. “We are delighted to be recognised by these awards,” says Terry Commons, proprietor of the Asian Tea House, which celebrated its third birthday last Sunday.

“Despite the challenges of the current climate, we have stuck to our core ethos and ensured that the quality of our food was always supreme, and this has been appreciated by our loyal customer base and acknowledged by the Irish Restaurant Awards”.

Famine victims should not be forgotten by this generation

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

It’s Thursday night which means it’s Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh, the night when the city’s indie music fans are out to hear Gugai spinning the very latest music by the coolest alternative bands.

Grealish calls for Kenny to raise plight of undocumented Irish with Obama

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

The visit of US president Barack Obama to Ireland in May is the “ideal window of opportunity” to press for legalisation for the undocumented Irish in the States.

This is the view of Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish, who is calling on the Government to make the case for “the thousands of undocumented Irish that are presently living in ‘legal limbo’ in the US”.

NUI Galway student awarded prestigious international prize

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

A doctoral fellow at the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) at NUI Galway, Ciara Fitzgerald, was presented with second prize in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Graduate Student Literature Review Prize at their annual meeting in Las Vegas recently.

Galway SF to ask public to sign petition against Universal Social Charge

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

Galway Sinn Féin will be calling on the public to sign its petition against the controversial and much resented Universal Social Charge.

Top class coach and nutritionists to give talk on sports nutrition

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

Evergreen Healthfoods will be hosting an information evening on sports nutrition at the Pillo Hotel & Spa, (formerly the Courtyard by Marriot) on Tuesday, April 26 at 6:30pm. The event is being organised in support of Special Olympics Ireland, and in association with the Pillo Hotel & Spa. There will be three speakers on the night, each covering different aspects of sports performance and nutrition.

Michael D’s daughter not running for Seanad

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

Alice Mary Higgins, daughter of Labour president Michael D Higgins, has announced that despite much speculation, she is not running in the Seanad elections.

UHG’s poor performance in hospital league tables is ‘embarrassing’, says health forum chief

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has slammed University Hospital Galway’s poor rating in the HSE’s latest league tables as “embarrassing”.

Will removing roundabouts cause greater congestion?

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

Galway’s days as the ‘Roundabout city’ could be coming to an end with new plans to remove seven of the city’s roundabouts and replace them with signalised junctions.

Galway Airport faces uphill challenge to find new Dublin carrier

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

Finding a new replacement for the Galway to Dublin route will be a challenge, but it is one that Galway Airport is still hoping to win, according to managing director Joe Walsh.

We have stood up, but how will we be counted?

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

So now everyone in the country should have been counted and accounted for, the real work starts in making heads and tail of the results to ensure our politicians and policy makers can make informed decisions.

Walkers discover dumped dead dogs inhumanly killed

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

Four dead dogs found abandoned along a rural laneway in the Kilbannon area of Tuam recently had all been shot at close range in an inhuman attempt to put them down.

Claregalway families petition Europe over flood damage

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

As two Claregalway families bring a petition to the European Parliament over the lack of flood prevention in the area and compensation to help them with their financial burden following the flooding crisis of 2009, the Irish Insurance Federation has called on local authorities to stop the practise of granting planning permission on flood plain areas.

Urgent action need to stop illegal dumping

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

Illegal dumping has become a serious problem in Tonabrucky, but tackling it is proving difficult as the area has a lot of privately owned land and is also located between the city and county council boundaries.

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