Major funding announced for five job creation projects

Thu, Jan 09, 2020

Fine Gael TD for Galway West Hildegarde Naughton has welcomed the allocation of more than €9.6 million for five major job-creation projects in Galway under the Regional Enterprise Development Fund.

Parents urged not to send children with flu-like symptoms to school

Thu, Jan 09, 2020

The HSE is urging parents not to send their children to school if they have flu-like illnesses or any of the associated symptoms, such as a high temperature, aches and pains, or a chesty cough in a bid to curtail the spread of the infection.

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Thu, Jan 09, 2020

Evening of praise and worship
An evening of praise and worship will be held at the Clayton Hotel Galway on January 12 at 5pm sharp.

Just waiting for that grand stretch in the evening

Thu, Jan 09, 2020

There is, I’m telling ya. I felt it in me waters. Just a small one mind ya, not anything outrageous. But it’s there nonetheless, that stretch in the evening. Ok, it’s not so grand yet, but there’s definitely a minute or so more of sunset now than we had last week, and ‘twas so dark the other morning, I didn’t know where I was going to work or coming from work.

We’re mad waiting for the grand stretch in the evening because it makes life so much easier. The arrival of the stretch in the evening is a Godsend to those of of us who find it hard to make conversation. For those awkward moments when you’re stuck in the lift in Roches, or find yourself queueing for your sandwich beside a complete stranger who you might never have seen before — that kind of complete stranger. At times like that, it is always great to be able to share some discourse on the state of the stretch in the evening.

Bottleshot takes aim at recycling targets

Thu, Jan 09, 2020

Three budding young inventors from Galway have come up with an ingenious way to help encourage recycling with their Bottleshot invention, which they are currently showcasing at the 56th BT Young Scientist Technology Exhibition taking place at the RDS in Dublin from yesterday until Saturday.

Fantasy Football round 22 preview

Wed, Jan 08, 2020

Did you enjoy the week off? Yes after seven and half game weeks inside a month, last weekend's FA Cup action was a welcome break for Fantasy managers.

Mayor Cubbard condemns RIC commemoration as 'disingenuous'

Tue, Jan 07, 2020

It makes no sense for the State and the Government to commemorate an organisation which sought to prevent an Irish state and Government from coming into existence, especially an organisation of which the notorious Black and Tans were a part.

Sustainable Brands

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

There’s a rising trend in ethical and sustainable brands that combine quality, style, and a long-term view of their impact on the planet.

Arts Council awards funding to four Galway visual artists’ studios

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

The Arts Council this week announced the Galway recipients of the 2020 Visual Artists Workspace Scheme.

The four recipients are Artspace Studios Ltd which receives €24,000; Engage Art Studios, which receives €20,000; Interface Galway which receives €8,000; and 126 Artist-Run Gallery which receives €2,000.

Green candidate to launch General Election campaign

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

The official launch of Roscommon-Galway Green Party representative Julie O’ Donoghue’s General Election campaign will take place on Sunday January 12 at 4pm in JJ Harlow’s Bar, Roscommon.

Canney approves law that sees eighty two rivers open for salmon/sea trout angling

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Seán Canney TD, Minister with responsibility for the Inland Fisheries sector has approved legislation that will govern the wild salmon and sea trout fisheries in 2020 and which came into affect yesterday (January 1)

Modh Eile and Meals4Health — highlights of COPE Galway’s year

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

A most welcome development in 2019 was the construction work on our new state of the art domestic abuse facility, Modh Eile House, which took place throughout the year. The building will be ready to occupy in January 2020, when we will have more room and enhanced facilities in a building that is now suitable for women and their children to build a new future for themselves.

We secured funding from a generous donor through The Ireland Funds, which will support us in developing our child-centred domestic abuse service. We also received increased funding from Tusla to provide outreach support services in county Galway for the one in five women and their children who experience this terrible form of abuse. We continue to offer support, advice and guidance, and hope to empower women to chart “another way” (in the spirit of the meaning of Modh Eile - Irish for ‘another way’) for themselves and their children.

Hundreds brave the cold for thirtieth COPE Galway swim

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Hundreds of swimmers and thousands of supporters thronged the steps of Blackrock in Salthill to support the 30th annual Christmas Day Swim in aid of COPE Galway’s services for people experiencing homelessness, domestic abuse; and for the provision services for older people in Galway.

Decade ends with return to falling house prices

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Property prices in Galway City in the final quarter of 2019 were less than one per cent lower than a year previously, compared to a rise of six per cent seen a year ago. The average house price is now €290,000, 81 per cent above its lowest point. In the rest of Galway, prices in the final quarter of 2019 were 1 per cent lower than a year previously, compared to a rise of seven per cent seen a year ago.

The average house price is now €196,000, 55 per cent above its lowest point.In Ireland housing prices fell by 1.2 per cent during 2019, the first calendar year recording a fall in prices since 2012, according to the latest sales report released this week by a national property website.

US abortion ‘Protest Priest’ returning to Galway for more pro-life activism

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Fr Stephen Imbarrato, the US pro-life activist Catholic priest whose exorcism outside an abortion clinic near Dublin attracted widespread international media coverage, is planning to return to Ireland in February and to include Galway during his time here.

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Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Progress for Craughwell national school
Craughwell National School’s extension project will be submitted to the Department of Education for approval in early January, Galway East TD and Minister for Rural Affairs Seán Canney has reported.

Craughwell National School’s extension project will be submitted to the Department of Education for approval in early January, Galway East TD and Minister for Rural Affairs Seán Canney has reported.

Local man’s company to promote Galway city and county on 6,300 airplanes

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

InflightFlix International, the Irish provider of destination video guides to the airline industry is to distribute its destination video guides promoting great Ireland experiences, which includes Galway city and county, to the inflight entertainment companies of all 29 airlines with Inflight Entertainment that fly to Ireland.

€4m funding for Ballinderreen to Kinvara realignment boost tourism, says Cannon

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

An East Galway TD has welcomed the allocation of €4m for 2020 for the Ballinderreen to Kinvara realignment Phase 2.

Galway’s year as Capital of Culture has begun

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

The time has arrived, Galway is now the European Capital of Culture. Midnight on Tuesday kicked off a year of over 1,900 events across 154 projects, with local, national, European and international artists and cultural organisations, in the villages, towns, islands and city of Galway.

Galway can’t waste another decade of indecision

Thu, Jan 02, 2020

Galway is great craic. Mighty craic. You can depend on Galway to give you what you want. A mighty place to go for the weekend. With the lads, and the girls. Jaysis, a place we can eat and drink and dance all night... And eat chips, clip clopping over the pebble stones or the medieval tarmac that lines the streets of our city and stagger back to the Airbnb sated. Galway is like that friend we all have who is always laughing and smiling. Even when he shouldn’t. The one you never take seriously because he is always smiling and laughing and having the craic.

But is this all we want Galway to be? In 100 years time, do we want Galway to have had a century of just being that sort of place, where the attraction of hen parties and stag parties is our core objective? Is that all we can achieve with the enormous potential of the place laid out before our eyes; a town which sits on the lip of the Atlantic, on the edge of Europe, with its face washed by the spray of the bay. Its attraction built on its possibilities rather than its realities.

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