Further education open day at Galway Community College

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

GCC will be holding its Further Education Open Day on Wednesday next March 10, from 10am-4pm. In keeping with current trends and demand, the college currently offers 18 full time FETAC Level Five courses in business and media, performance and production, design and technology, social care, sport and horticulture.

Win a pair of designer frames and two tickets to the Senior Times Over 50s Show with Specsavers

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

To celebrate the forthcoming Senior Times Over 50s Show, which takes place on of March 13 and 14 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Specsavers Galway has teamed up with the Galway Advertiser to offer two lucky readers a pair of gorgeous designer frames and two tickets to the show. In addition, the two winners will receive a complimentary eye test.

Coole Park prepares for Tree Week

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

A range of events for all ages will take place in Coole next month as the park celebrates Tree Week as part of its spring cultural programme.

Sunday March 7 will see several events taking place in Coole including Coole Trees in Spring, a guided walk through the park with staff from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, who will explain how to identify different tree species in spring. This event will take place from 2.30pm to 4pm along with a range of indoor and outdoor family events including scavenger hunts and games.

Rushie’s to be a barman in Coyotes

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Liverpool football legend Ian Rush is coming to Coyotes Late Bar on Forster Street this Saturday (March 6).

Galway Community Acupuncture: a new model of practice

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Galway Community Acupuncture is a community centred healing practice with the aim to make acupuncture more accessible by making it more affordable. What distinguishes this model of practice is that treatments are offered in a comfortable and relaxed group setting.

UHG urged to appoint new hospital manager after damning report

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the health authority to fasttrack the appointment of a new manager for University Hospital Galway in the wake of the facility’s poor showing in the HSE’s latest league tables.

The times we live in

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Ya know the world is not right when Irish politicians are resigning on the grounds of principle...without any video or audio evidence...when the Greens are the ones who are caught out being unlawful...when Tiger Woods is pretending to be human and is saying sorry to everyone but the scores of mistresses...when Willie O’Dea is giving out about people kicking a man when he is down. Ya know the world is not right when Mayo beat Galway...twice...in a row...without even trying. Ya know the world isn’t right when the Galway footballers are dying their hair blond...and they not even knowing Michael Jackson. Ya know the world isn’t right when hurling fans in Tipperary hand the GAA €150,000 on a snowy Saturday night, be tormented for an hour or so, and then head off home into the night without seeing any hurling or without getting any of the cash back. Twice. Will we get a receipt? Will we f... ya know the world isn’t right when Galway club hurlers have to go to the High Court to get a victory...Ya know the world is not right when ya realise how long it took for Cheryl to realise that Ashley is a twat. And we all knowing that for years. Honest. Ya know the world is not right when ya realise that it’s costing the Guards €10,000 to police rag week in Galway and leave a state of the art policing buggy in the Square to do the job when criminals are shooting each other across the country... Why don’t they just give the money to charity and tell all the students to stay at home...ya know the world isn’t right when despite all the policing, rag week students behave themselves...ya know the world isn’t right when Enda Kenny is trying to find himself and then be that person...and then finding out that that person is a cross combining Roy Keane, Ena Sharples and Arnold Schwarzenegger...ya know the world isn’t right when Jedward tickets sell out in 15 minutes which is probably 12 minutes more than the material they have...ya know the world is not right when the last connection with Wanderly Wagon goes to his eternal reward and when the first person you meet (on ‘Judge’ment day) in the afterlife is Bosco...ya know the world is not right when ya hear that an unelected Green can tweet us all into distraction...when the Bishops are asking us for their forgiveness...when Thalimidomide survivors can’t even get a grant to help lock their homes while a directly elected mayor will have a staff of 30...ya know the world is not right when Ronan O’Gara writes to newspapers to complain about them complaining about him...ya know the world is not right when the Irish bobsleigh team don’t come last in the Winter Olympics and when Irishman Mikey Graham is still in the running to win Skating on Ice...ya know the world isn’t right when Michael O’Leary comes over all patriotic and caring...So how could we be anyway but the way we are?

Ballinasloe included in flood risk study

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Ballinasloe will be included in the major new Shannon Flood Risk Management Study to be commissioned by the Office of Public Works in the summer.

Stop dismantling health service Government warned at Galway meeting

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says the campaign by public sector workers to reverse the pay cuts in the Budget must also make sure that the dismantling of the public health service is stopped.

Don’t leave boxes and bags outside bottle banks says McNelis

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

People leaving bottles in the city’s bottle banks should not leave behind boxes and bags that have been used to carry the glass, but should carry it home.

Danish man dies suddenly while working on Loughrea wind turbine

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

A man has died suddenly while working on a wind turbine in south Galway.

Bang a drum and raise money for Haiti

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

On Sunday more than 100 Tribal Spirit Drummers from across Ireland will gather in NUI, Galway in a fundraising event for earthquake relief in Haiti.

Search for the elusive Nash after daredevil graffiti artist tattoos city

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Under the cloak of darkness in the early hours of Sunday morning, a person known by his/her paintwork as Nash scaled an incredible height to decorate the gable end of Garvey’s bar and hotel on Eyre Square with graffiti.

Galway city recognised as hub for medical technology industry by global organisation

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Galway has been recognised as the hub for the medical technology industry. TOPRA, the global organisation for regulatory affairs professionals, has selected the city for its first Irish-based training programme in medical technology regulatory affairs.

In collaboration with Cranfield University and with the assistance of the Irish Medicines Board and Galway-based Merrill Brink International medical translations, TOPRA is running a three day short course entitled “Principles of European Medical Technology Regulatory Affairs”.

Winner of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh to be announced tonight

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Final preparations are currently under way for the award ceremony of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh which is to take place tonight at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel at 6.30pm.

Joyces 365 and Oxfam take part in Fairtrade fortnight

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

The Fairtrade Fortnight has begun and with Joyces 365 and Oxfam getting in on the action there will be plenty of delights in store for customers for yet another week.

Galway Advertiser is still the runaway leader in local newspaper circulation race

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

The Galway Advertiser has maintained its position as the highest circulation local newspaper in the country at a time when recently published ABC audit figures for Ireland's newspaper industry show a dramatic decline in the circulation of almost all 'paid for' newspapers, both local and national.

Waterways to be searched in missing man probe

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

The Garda helicopter will travel to Galway tomorrow to participate in the search for a man who went missing in Galway last December.

Grealish calls for solution to Calasanctius row

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Calasanctius College and the Department of Education must reach an agreement to facilitate 23 children who have been refused a place at the school for the 2010/2011 year.

Jockey murder accused to face further charges

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Further charges could be brought against a 37-year-old man accused of murdering two promising young jockeys, including Claregalway teen Jamie Kyne, who perished in a blaze at a UK block of flats last year.

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