Deputy Mayor demands plan to tackle 'insane explosion of drinking in public places'

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

The "insane explosion of drinking in public places" in Galway will persist unless without the adoption of a strategy to tackle the issue by the Galway City Council, the gardaí, the HSE, and third-level institutions.

NUI Galway will provide refunds to students not proceeding with accommodation

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Students who decide not to proceed with their booking of university owned accommodation will be entitled to a full refund NUI Galway has confirmed.

'You're not invincible', warns NUI Galway student who was struck down by Covid-19

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

It is Tuesday morning and many of us are waking up to the images on our social media pages of Galway's Spanish and Middle Arches being thronged with young people revelling and drinking from the night before.

Arts Fest centrepiece has Connemara unveiling put back to March

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

John Gerrard’s stunning outdoor art installation, Mirror Pavilion, Corn Work, a centrepiece of Galway International Arts Festival’s Autumn Edition and a significant event in the Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture programme, which was due to be unveiled in Connemara this month will not make its appearance until next March.

Just halve your interactions, HSE asks young people

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the local public hospitals, has appealed to young people to halve their weekly social interactions in a bid to reduce the spread of Covid-19.

Galwaymen to embark on epic unsupported Transatlantic row

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

One of the world’s foremost extreme adventurers, former professional rugby player Damian Browne from Renmore, along with lifelong friend Athenry’s Fergus Farrell are embarking on a journey that will take them across the Atlantic in 2022.

'Government has ability to end consistent child poverty,' says Hanley

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

“No child or family chooses to live in poverty, that choice is made for them. The State has allowed more and more children, decade after decade, to fall into poverty."

Galway GAA calls on local clubs to take part in the Virtual Sleep Out for Simon

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Galway GAA are calling local clubs from across County Galway to swap their beds for sleeping bags for one night and host their own Virtual Sleep Out in support of those facing homelessness in our community.

Primary care centres 'not being used to full potential' says Canney

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Galway East TD Sean Canney has described the HSE and Department of Health's "inability" to provide services within the new primary care centre in Tuam as "ludicrous".

Galway libraries to receive €100,000 for essential Covid-19 upgrades

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Three public libraries in Galway have been allocated a total of €100,000 for essential upgrades and alterations in response to new demands created by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Online public meeting on Galway's housing crisis

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

An online public meeting on the State's housing crisis will take place next week, with speakers from the National Homeless and Housing Coalition and An Taisce.

Ecumenical memorial service at GUH next week

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Galway University Hospitals (GUH) will host its 11th annual Ecumenical Memorial Service in remembrance of deceased patients of the hospital on Wednesday October 7 at 7pm. The service will be streamed live from the hospital chapel on https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/uhg-chapel

Light rail, not more roads, is the only real solution to Galway's gridlock

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Hands up those who can remember getting their first home phone installed? Insider had to wait six months after application before Albert Reynolds, Minister for Communications, waved his hand in 1980, and as if by magic, I got a wired in house phone, then being manufactured by our own Northern Telecom in Mervue.

Time to be sound, not silly

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

A community is formed by the willingness of all of to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. Now, more than ever, we are aware of what the common good is. Now more than ever at any time in history, we know what the enemy is. Now, for the first time perhaps, the whole world shares a common enemy — an enemy that can be defeated the same way in Colombia, Canberra, California or Clifden.

It is not as if this thing that challenges us has a different line of attack in different places. No, it seems to have found a universal human weakness and is set to target this for the next six months or more.

BE A GALWAY VOICE

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Euthanasia Bill should be rejected
Dear Editor,

Architecture at the Edge returns this weekend

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

The Architecture at the Edge Festival will take place in Galway and Mayo this weekend. The festival, designed to help citizens understand the many ways architecture impacts our lives, will feature a weekend of online lectures, interviews, exhibitions, and panel discussions - all live and all free.

Through The Glass Darkly

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early third century BC. The name "Stoicism" derives from the Stoa Poikile, or "painted porch", a colonnade decorated with mythic and historical battle scenes, on the north side of the Agora in Athens, where Zeno and his followers gathered to discuss their ideas. It was one of the major philosophical schools in classical Athens, along with the Plato’s Academy, the tradition of Aristotle, and the Epicureans. Stoicism flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the third century AD, and among its adherents was Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It experienced a decline after Christianity became the state religion in the fourth century AD. Since then it has seen revivals, notably in the Renaissance. The French philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne was a notable stoic as was the great Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

Positive Ageing Week celebrates the mischievous and the sparky

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Today, October 1 is International Day of Older Persons – a day to celebrate the enormous contribution of older people to our family life, our neighbourhoods and our communities.

Advertiser in brief

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Theft of bike in city
On Wednesday September 23 at around 7.30pm, a black and white Cube bike was stolen from the bike rack at Eyre Square in Galway city centre.

Lár Sráide le Conradh na Gaeilge

Thu, Oct 01, 2020

Aighneacht do Choimisiún na hEorpa
Tá feachtas curtha ar bun ag grúpaí i mballstáit an tAontas Eorpaigh ag éileamh ar Choimisiún na hEorpa buiséad agus scéimeanna tacaíochta faoi leith a chur ar fáil do réigiúin ar fud na hEorpa a bhfuil tréithe cultúrtha agus teanga ar leith acu, na ceantair Ghaeltachta san áireamh. Tá Conradh na Gaeilge ag lorg tacaíochta don fheachtas seo, ag súil gur deis í chun maoiniú breise a fháil don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht.

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