Protest and criticism meet student accommodation rent hikes

Thu, May 10, 2018

A claimed 18 per cent hike in rents for student accommodation has led to fears that Galway students could be paying an additional €1,000 for a nine month/39 week lease, when the new academic term starts in September.

Lyons calls for ‘more industry’ to be developed in Knocknacarra

Thu, May 10, 2018

There is an “urgent need to have more industry developed” on industrial zoned land in Knocknacarra, a move that, if realised, would daily reduce traffic volumes in the area and increase local employment.

This is the view of Independent city councillor Donal Lyons, who this week, with Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish, met Martin Shanahan, chief executive of IDA Ireland, together with senior IDA executives. The meeting took place in Dublin to discuss bringing forward plans to develop the industrial zoned lands at Rahoon, close to the Gateway Park.

Take 401 to Ed, recommends Bus Eireann

Thu, May 10, 2018

Bus Éireann advise customers that Galway City Route 401 will carry concert go-ers to Ed Sheeran concerts in Pearse Stadium this weekend.

Miscarriage Association to hold remembrance walk in Galway next week

Thu, May 10, 2018

No parent should have to say “goodbye” to their baby before they get the opportunity to say “hello.”

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Thu, May 10, 2018

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Chanelle employees hailed as heroes after plucking baby twins from flooded river

Thu, May 10, 2018

Two UK-based employees of Loughrea-headquartered pharmaceutical company Chanelle have been hailed as heroes after jumping into a swollen river outside their office to save baby twins whose buggy had blown into the canal.

Chanelle’s Fiona Holmes and Jessica Oliver are the toast of their company after saving the lives of twin boys, Riley and Marley Walls last week.

SeaFest 2018 will boost Galway business by €2million a day

Thu, May 10, 2018

The Seafest event, Ireland’s largest maritime festival will boost the Galway economy by more than €2million per day of its’ there day run from June 29 to July 1.

Boston Mayor and ‘surprise guests’ to attend Mayor Flannery’s charity ball tomorrow

Thu, May 10, 2018

Several Galway charities are set to benefit from Mayor Pearce Flannery’ Charity Mayors Ball tomorrow night Friday May 11 next in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill.

Judges and prizes announced for ‘the g Hotel Best Dressed’ Competition on Ladies’ Day

Thu, May 10, 2018

Join Ireland’s most fashionable at Ballybrit Racecourse on Thursday August 2 for the biggest day in the Irish racing calendar, Ladies’ Day of the Galway Races Summer Festival. A day where bold colours and cutting-edge silhouettes are paired with dramatic headpieces — all perfectly showcased by ‘the g Hotel Best Dressed’ event.

Cuddy calls for retention of Galway Airport airstrip

Thu, May 10, 2018

A formal request has been lodged with the Galway County Council that the airstrip at Galway Airport be retained as “there is no possibility” of a suitable site being found for another airstrip “so close to the city ever again”.

This is the view of Independent county councillor Jim Cuddy, who has contacted Kevin Kelly, the interim CEO of Galway County Council, to formally request the airstrip be retained.

New website and name at No 4 Youth Services

Thu, May 10, 2018

Galway Diocesan Youth Services which was set up in the early 1980s is to be renamed as No 4 Youth Service at an event in the Harbour Hotel next Wednesday, when it will also unveil its new website.

A weekend of journeys

Thu, May 10, 2018

The weekend used to be a great time for ‘the spin.’ In the days when having a car was a novelty, “sit in, sit in,” would be the mantra, as families would pile into the car on a Sunday afternoon for a drive made with no end in mind, the act of travelling seemingly more important than any pre-determined destination. Weekends became associated with journeys, spins to nowhere in particular, visits from unannounced visitors, a series of movements that kept us all connected, grounded, and with a strong sense of where we were from, and what lay out of sight, just over the hill.

But as time went by and we became more sophisticated, the Sunday trip became ‘so 1970s,’ and as shops began to open, Sunday became less different from the rest of the week, and now for many of us, it barely differs from the other six.

City to launch heart failure awareness campaign

Thu, May 10, 2018

Galway is the first city and county in Europe to launch a heart failure awareness campaign.

€3.5 million for home improvement grants for Galway's elderly and people with disabilities

Tue, May 08, 2018

Older people and those with disabilities in Galway city could be set to benefit from funding of €1,100,374 which will be made available via grants for housing adaptations.

Rent hikes at Cúirt na Coiribe condemned as 'callous and unfair'

Tue, May 08, 2018

An 18 per cent hike in rents for student accommodation could see Galway students paying an additional €1,000 for a nine month/39 week lease, leading to warnings that such hikes "threaten the advances our third-level institutions have achieved in recent years".

Don’t copy the British – vote no to abortion on demand

Tue, May 08, 2018

At the heart of the current debate about removing the right to life of the unborn child from the Constitution is a question about what kind of society we want to be. We do not have to look far in order to see the country where they have long ago removed the right to life for the unborn child. Our nearest neighbours in Britain have made that mistake, and we are being asked to copy them.

Disability should not become a death sentence in Ireland

Tue, May 08, 2018

I am the parent of a child with a disability. Persons with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else, regardless of their age. Yet in England and Wales, 90 per cent of pregnancies where the unborn baby has Down syndrome are aborted. This is a tragic reality in our nearest neighbouring country.

Cuirt na Coiribe issue statement in response to concerns over rent increase

Tue, May 08, 2018

Cuirt na Coiribe has issued a statement in relation to concern among students at the proposed rent increase. It reads as folows:

Seventeen families join Galway homeless list in last eight weeks

Thu, May 03, 2018

 The housing crisis in Galway city is worsening with 17 new families joining the homeless list in the city over the past eight weeks.

Grealish says figures prove case for minor injuries unit at Merlin Park Hospital

Thu, May 03, 2018

People with a minor injury now face an average wait of five and a half hours from the time they are first registered to when they are discharged from the Emergency Department at University Hospital Galway.

The statistic comes from the HSE, and was in response to a Parliamentary Question to the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, tabled by Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish. The figures show that from January 1 to April 1 this year, the average time from registration to discharge for a patient with minor injury was five hours 35 minutes.

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