Leisureland café latest to join ‘Use Your Mug!’ cup deposit and return scheme

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Galway City Council’s returnable coffee cup scheme has gained a new partner with Brazco Coffee Academy in Leisureland becoming café number ten in the scheme. Customers who ‘Use Your Mug!’ pay €2 to ‘borrow’ a fresh reusable cup, which can be returned or refunded in any participating café – saving the hassle of washing between use.

Solidarity through swimming as Sanctuary Swimming comes to Galway’s beaches

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

BY DECLAN VARLEY
A first-of-its-kind Solidarity-through-swimming initiative has come to beaches across Ireland this summer in a collaboration between the Sanctuary Runners organisation and Swim Ireland.

Migrants in Galway pave the way for diverse leadership in Irish society

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Five future migrant leaders from Galway were among 31 migrants graduating from political and leadership programmes, at a ceremony run by the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI).

Covid-19 outbreak puts pressure on bed capacity at UHG

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

A Covid-19 outbreak coupled with high emergency department attendances is putting increased pressure on bed capacity at the west’s biggest hospital.

Chris Kane, the manager of University Hospital Galway, says 28 patients with the virus are being treated at the facility and five wards are impacted by the outbreak. The hospital’s emergency department is experiencing very high attendances, also.

The Big Beach clean — Furbo operation removes 20 bags of marine waste

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Marine litter is a blight on our coastlines. What we find on our beaches is not the full extent of the marine litter though. It is estimated that 70% of marine litter is on the seabed, 15% is floating in the water column and 15% is what we find on our shores.

Galway soprano Clare Quinn awarded prestigious NCH bursary

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Galway soprano Clare Quinn has been named as the recipient of the National Concert Hall Bernadette Greevey Bursary.

Camogie legend Aoife Donohue urges players and fans to go up the hill for Jack and Jill

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Galway camogie star and member of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA), Aoife Donohue, is urging people to become charitable All-Stars for a great local cause this summer and go Up the Hill for Jack and Jill.

Growth of the parish inspires Turloughmore to embark on ambitious pitch plans

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Sheer growth in the number of young people playing hurling and camogie has inspired Turloughmore Hurling and camogie clubs to announce ambitious plans to develop four new pitches at their facility at Lackagh.

University of Galway gets green light for new Learning Commons

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

University of Galway has been given the green light for the construction of a major new Learning Commons at the heart of its city campus,

The need to future proof our culture

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

So here we are, at the turn of the Galway year. They used to say that if there were intercounty players at the Galway Races, that they must be out of the championship, their boots hung up for another year.

Now, in these everchanging times, every intercounty player in the country, bar the camogie finalists, could attend the Galway races and not have a county game left to care about.

Clybaun traffic calming works welcomed

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Traffic calming works to begin on the Clybaun Road have been welcomed by city councillors Niall Mc Nelis and Donal Lyons.

Both have worked together on getting these works started and continue to engage with Gardai about speeding in the area.

Fun times as Galway becomes Ireland’s comedy capital again this October

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

Galway becomes Ireland’s Comedy Capital this October Bank Holiday, with the nation’s biggest comedy festival taking over the city’s pubs and theatres for seven nights of fun, laughter, mischief, and merriment.

Filipino style sees Best Dressed Lady title go to cardio-thoracic theatre nurse

Thu, Aug 03, 2023

The stylish winner of the ‘Best Dressed Lady’ on Ladies Day of the Galway Races was today announced as Maritess McCarthy from Douglas in Cork, who works as a Cardio-Thoracic Theatre Nurse in Cork University Hospital. Noted for her exquisite style Maritess has walked away with a cash bonanza of €10,000. 

Ladies Day is a showcase for the very best of Irish and international design and Ballybrit was once again no exception.

Cregal Art celebrates six decades of fuelling creativity in Galway

Thu, Jul 27, 2023

BY DECLAN VARLEY
1963 was an iconic year in the history of Galway — in those heady months, when JFK visited the city and inspired all with his speeches, a business was being created in the city that has gone on to similarly inspire thousands and thousands of young artists across the west.

Snámh an tSunda – Gregory’s Sound Swim for Aran Islands RNLI

Thu, Jul 27, 2023

For 175 years the Aran Islands Lifeboat Station has covered the rugged and wild coastline of Inis Mór, Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr. While the islands provide some form of shelter for Galway Bay on the leeside, they are endlessly embattled against the Atlantic Ocean on the other.

Guidelines for new IVF programme do not ‘reflect the reality of infertility in Ireland’

Thu, Jul 27, 2023

New IVF funding programme comes with ‘discriminatory’ and out-of-touch criteria, that excludes most seeking the treatment and leaves them asking, ‘What’s wrong with us?’, says Galway mother who has spent €24,000 on IVF cycles.

The guidelines of the fully publicly funded assisted human reproduction (AHR) programme which sees eligible patients entitled to ‘one full cycle of IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) or ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection) treatment, initially provided in HSE-approved private clinics of their choice’, was announced on Tuesday, July 25, by Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly and will commence in September.

New early morning and late night Expressway services between Galway and Shannon Airport

Thu, Jul 27, 2023

Expressway, Bus Éireann’s premium coach service, is delighted to announce the addition of four daily trips to its Route 51 service between Galway and Shannon Airport.

Don’t leave Galway under-policed says Mayor

Wed, Jul 26, 2023

The recent spate of arson, knife and gun attacks in Galway city should ensure that the city is not left under-policed, Mayor Eddie Hoare said yesterday.

Witnesses sought following early morning fatal accident on the M6

Wed, Jul 26, 2023

Gardaí have launched an investigation into a fatal collision which occurred on the M6 near Athenry early yesterday morning.

The tragedy unfolded just after 5am yesterday (Wednesday) when a car was involved in a single vehicle collision on the M6 westbound at Ballygarraun West, Athenry.

Cregal Art celebrates six decades of fuelling creativity in Galway

Wed, Jul 26, 2023

BY DECLAN VARLEY
1963 was an iconic year in the history of Galway — in those heady months, when JFK visited the city and inspired all with his speeches, a business was being created in the city that has gone on to similarly inspire thousands and thousands of young artists across the west.

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