Get along to the Malt House tonight and help the North Pole Challenge

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Tonight (Thursday) the Malt House will hold a fundraiser in aid of Ronan Scully’s North Pole Challenge with the launch of its new spring menu. Ronan Scully is always a busy man but this year is exceptional. He has just finished with his role as a leader in RTE’s Operation Transformation but the challenges do not stop there. Next up he is running a marathon at the North Pole this April, a challenge that will truly test the adopted Galway man.

Athenry man has money confiscated after judge rules it the proceeds of crime

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A Galway resident has had €35,050 confiscated and forfeited to the State after a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court judge ruled it represented the proceeds of crime.

Anthony McAuley (46) of Brackloon, Kiltullagh, Athenry, was stopped by custom officers in Dublin Airport on March 1, 2009 as he was about to board a flight to Malaga. A search of his suitcase, which he had checked in, revealed €35,050 concealed in white envelopes hidden among his clothing.

GMIT Students' Union RAG Week raises more than €10,000 for charity

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

GMIT Students' Union RAG Week which ran without incident last month raised a total of approximately €10,000 for Serve, Aware, Special Olympics West, and the Irish Heart Foundation with more funds yet to come.

Open conversations aim to improve ways of supporting mental health

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Better approaches to supporting mental health in the community may be achieved as a result of a series of six “open conversations” being held about the issue in the city over the coming months.

Michael D’s daughter to seek Seanad seat

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Alice-Mary Higgins, daughter of Labour president and former Galway West TD Michael D Higgins, is to seek a seat in Seanad Éireann.

Ms Higgins will be contesting the elections to the upper house of the Oireachtas, seeking a seat on the Seanad’s cultural panel. Her father served as a senator from 1982 to 1987 and will be making a bid for the presidency later this year.

FG to choose replacement for Walsh on city council next week

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Fine Gael will choose who is to be co-opted onto Brian Walsh’s Galway City Council seat at a convention this Tuesday at 8pm in the Menlo Park Hotel.

Short-fused ex-phone salesman warned to pay compensation or face jail

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A short-fused ex-phone salesman who punched and kicked a man on a busy nightclub dancefloor has been warned to come up with compensation or face jail time.

Galway Arts Centre seeks artist in residence

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The Galway Arts Centre is seeking an artist in residence for the period of mid April - mid October.

Man fined for removing number plates following crash

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A Tuam man who crashed into a wall and removed the number plates of the vehicle which he abandoned and then fled the scene was fined €900 and disqualified for a year when he appeared at Galway District Court on Monday.

Five seek co-option for Nolan’s council seat

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Five Labour members are seeking co-option onto councillor Derek Nolan’s Galway City Council seat following his successful election to Dáil Éireann last week.

Top local photographers to take family portraits to raise funds for cystic fibrosis

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Two top local photographers have joined forces to spearhead a unique fundraising event which will benefit a local charity.

1970s Galway, condoms, and the Advertiser

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The Galway Advertiser was one of the sources quoted and consulted in an article featured in the latest edition of History Ireland magazine.

The article, Spreading VD all over Connacht: Reproductive rights and wrongs in 1970s Galway, is by Dr John Cunningham of the NUI, Galway history department.

GMIT recruiting for enterprise programme

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The Galway Mayo Institute of Technology is now recruiting for the next Midlands & West Enterprise Programme (MWEP) commencing in June 2011. This is a seven month programme providing entrepreneurs with business skills, networks, facilities and supports necessary to navigate and execute the business start-up process.

Man fined and disqualified for ‘appalling’ race on motorway

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The speeding of a young man found racing on the M6 motorway was described as “appalling” by a district court judge this week before a €600 fine and a two year disqualification was imposed.

Support Don and Cosa

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Galway folk singer-songwriter Don Stiffe is seeking the support of the people of Galway city and county when he takes to the stage for the final of the All-Ireland Talent Show.

Claregalway drama festival starts tonight

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

The finest amateur drama talent in the country will head to Claregalway from tonight (Thursday) March 10 when the Claregalway Drama Festival gets under way at the local leisure centre.

St Patrick’s Day Festival to be a ‘world of wonder’

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

In a time of economic gloom it is good to remember that Ireland has many things it can still celebrate and Galway will be doing that next week for the 2011 St Patrick’s Festival.

Expel RAG week louts says Cameron after week of trouble

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Those students who indulged in the type anti-social behaviour that shocked Galway last week must “meet the rigour of the courts and be expelled”.

This is the view of Labour councillor Billy Cameron who described such students as “louts” and accused them of inflicting “destruction and outright terrorism” on local communities in the city during Rag week.

Hear people’s stories at the Westside Library’s Human Library

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

A library is a place you go to borrow books to read, but imagine a library where you can ‘borrow’ a bit of time with a person and hear the stories they have to tell.

A Declaration of War

Thu, Mar 10, 2011

Our election is now over for a while at least and we should now shelve the electoral and political strategy and get on with trying to save our economy. Except we cannot do this because another election is looming and it is having an even greater influence on our economic policies than anything ever dreamt up by strategists on these shores.

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