Government Covid Package welcome, but more needs to be done, says Cheevers

Thu, May 07, 2020

While the Government's €6.5 million Covid-19 support package for businesses is welcome, more needs to be done in relation to the commercial rates aspect of the plan.

Local researchers trialling social distancing app

Thu, May 07, 2020

Researchers at NUI Galway’s Health Innovation via Engineering (HIVE) Lab, led by Professor Derek O’Keeffe, have developed a new smartphone app to help with social distancing. As recommended by the World Health Organisation, one of the basic principles in minimising the spread of this infectious disease is social distancing. It is currently suggested that people should have a space of at least 2 metres around them to reduce the chance of respiratory spread of the disease from person to person.

Time for us to back the local businesses that back us

Thu, May 07, 2020

When we think back to when things were simpler. No, I don’t mean February. I mean back in the mists of time when all we knew were the horizons on the edge of our towns and villages. Back then, we did not have a greater knowledge of the world outside. For us, our existence and almost everything we required was lived and available within that small geographic location. Back thing everyone was local, apart from blow-ins to the bank or school who, to be fair, had to be local from somewhere else, and would probably end up our locals (unless forty years later they did something bad and we’d start calling them blow-ins again.)

Big lottery win in Athenry

Thu, May 07, 2020

A lucky Galwegian is €500,000 richer after the National Lottery revealed that its Daily Million Plus top prize was won by a player in Athenry.

Major stability fund urgently needed to support local authorities says Canney

Thu, May 07, 2020

Minister for Rural Affairs Seán Canney has called on the Government to put in place a stability fund to support local authorities.

Minister Canney said; “Local authority incomes have been slashed because of the Covid-19 crisis. Many local authorities will run out of cash with the sharp decline in rates, planning fees, rents from social houses, and other incomes. There is no certainty as to when income will flow again. Meanwhile we need our local authorities to deliver essential services.

No summer Galway International Arts Festival but there will be autumn events

Fri, May 01, 2020

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Galway International Arts Festival today confirmed that the Festival will not go ahead as planned this July. However, the Festival is planning to present a special programme of events this Autumn, subject to guidelines. Full details to be announced soon.

10,000 Covid-19 tests will be carried out weekly in west

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Up to 10,000 Covid-19 tests will be carried out weekly in Galway, Mayo, and Roscommon by mid May, according to the Tony Canavan, the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group which runs the local public hospitals.

Funky fashion face masks from Stitches

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Stitches Clothing Alterations and Drycleaning Service in Eyre Street has been proudly serving customers from Galway and surroundings for 40 years.

Getting Molli moving

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

In a time when the world seems consumed by the Covid-19 pandemic, it can be easy to forget there are other conditions with which people are living. This week the Galway Advertiser spoke to Amanda O’Malley about her family’s fundraising campaign Le Chéile do Molli - Let’s get Molli Moving for daughter Molli who suffers from the rare spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) Type 1.

Accommodation concerns over new university dates

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

There have been concerns raised over student accommodation in Galway after NUI Galway announced new changes to the upcoming academic year, due to the restrictions imposed by Government over Covid-19.

300 year old Claddagh Ring comes home to Galway

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

The oldest known Claddagh Ring, dating from the 1700s and created by Richard Joyce, a member of the Joyce family - one of the Twelve Tribes of Galway - is coming home to the city.

Connolly calls for city allotments to be allowed reopen

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

The closure of allotments in Galway as a result of Covid-19 is "counter-productive" and comes from an overly "rigid interpretation" of the lockdown regulations.

Seven new NUI Galway projects to respond to COVID-19 crisis

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Seven new NUI Galway projects to respond to the COVID-19 emergency were announced by Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, TD yesterday (Wednesday) evening.

Post Covid-19 —working with and not against nature

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Has the planet declared war on humanity over the last year? It certainly seems so as we witness one destructive storm after another in Ireland, heatwaves across Europe and southern Africa, hurricanes leaving trails of destruction from the Bahamas to Mexico, wildfires from Greenland and Siberia to Australia, melting ice from Antarctica to the Arctic, droughts in India, locust swarms in east Africa, increasing acidification of the oceans leading to the loss of a third of the largest structure on earth (Great Barrier Reef), city dwellers dying from poisonous air, flooding at crisis levels on every continent, soils becoming less fertile, and birds disappearing from the skies, insects from the fields and fish from the oceans.

New software engineering jobs announced for Galway

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

One hundred new jobs for Galway and Dublin, mainly in the area of software engineering, have been announced by Fidelity Investments, a Boston multinational financial services firm.

Sports clubs need financial support to survive post-Covid-19

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

If local and community based sporting clubs are to survive the Covid-19 lockdown and have a future, the Government must establish a support fund, as traditional income streams have ceased.

Ireland's longest running annual Pride falls victim to Covid-19 restrictions

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

The Galway Pride parade has become the latest casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic, with this annual August march through Galway city cancelled.

Galway must get 'fair slice' of funding to tackle spike in illegal dumping

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Galway City Council must "ensure" the city gets "a fair slice" of the €1 million in funding announced by the Government to tackle the spike in illegal dumping since the Covid-19 restrictions came into force.

Cheevers raises concerns over illegal bonfires in east side of city

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

The gardaí and the Galway City Council must take a "serious" and "coordinated approach" to stop tackling the illegal bonfires which have occurred on the east side of the city in recent weeks.

Bus Eireann running 750 essential trips a day in Galway

Thu, Apr 30, 2020

Pictured are some of the Bus Éireann staff at the Galway depot who are providing vital services to the people of Galway during the Covid 19 restrictions. (front l-r) Dwayne Gallagher, Caroline Freeney, Peter Melia and Brian Connolly. (Back l-r) Robert Tierney, John Dubber and Marie Byrne. Bus Éireann have 270 employees in Galway and operate 20 Routes including city, rural and Expressway intercity services.

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