Peter McVerry Trust opens new regional office in Tuam

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Peter McVerry Trust, the national housing and homeless charity, has opened its new Western Regional Office in Tuam.

Voices of Connemara captures the magical essence of older Ireland

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

The Voices of Connemara is a book to be treasured. Published initially in 2001, and now available as a paperback, it was put together by photographer Raymonde Standún and the late Bill Long (writer and broadcaster).

Getting to know...

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

What is your earliest memory?
My mother Ina driving away from our home and I thought she was gone forever. I was distraught. Turns out it was her twin sister Betty – they were identical.

What does the climate action plan mean for Galway?

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

The path to a zero carbon Galway has become clearer than ever after the publication of the 2023 Climate Action Plan this week.

University of Galway graduate wins global recognition for Parkinson’s project

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

University of Galway graduate Amber Dowling has been rated in the top 16 student engineers in the world, with a Highly Commended award in the Global Undergraduate Awards for her work on a project to help people with Parkinson’s disease.

Galway features in lavish book of photos of our haunting abandoned spaces

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

by Declan Varley
Galway features prominently in a lavishly illustrated gift book by internationally featured photographer Rebecca Brownlie, that includes more than 150 haunting colour photographs of abandoned homes, schools, churches, prisons and more, from all across the island of Ireland.

Galway features prominently in a lavishly illustrated gift book by internationally featured photographer Rebecca Brownlie, that includes more than 150 haunting colour photographs of abandoned homes, schools, churches, prisons and more, from all across the island of Ireland.

A wedding to dream for at the g Hotel and Spa

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Love. L-O-V-E, capital letters, bolded, three-exclamation-point love. That’s how you feel about each other. And that’s how you’ll feel about your wedding day at the g Hotel & Spa.

Victims of housing crisis are hidden in plain sight as rental market collapses

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Housing is the biggest issue of our time, it is the foundation on which a decent society is built. Food, shelter and education. Yet rents in Galway have risen by over 16% to over €1700 in the last year. Struggling families are paying over €1500 to rent a three-bedroom house in our city. There are now nearly 250 people homeless across our city.

Portumna Lotto players urged to look at their tickets

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

One lucky Lotto player is celebrating in Portumna this week after their ticket was one of ten plucked from the drum in the Euromillions Ireland Only Raffle draw.

The ticket worth €50,000 was purchased at Desmond Salmon’s Newsagents, Portumna.

COPE Galway thanks Christmas swim dippers, supporters and the Galway community

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Christmas Morning saw a sea of red t-shirts adding to Salthill’s festive atmosphere for the 2022 COPE Galway Christmas Swim. Now in its 33rd year, families, friends, colleagues, sports teams, schoolmates and many familiar faces took part in this long-held Christmas tradition to brave Galway Bay’s cold water in support of the local charity.

Ireland West Airport welcomes Toy Show star

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Ireland West Airport were thrilled to welcome little Aron Gibbons, 6, from Westport to the airport last week, Aron, lit up The Late Late Toy Show last month when he appeared on it with Ryan Tubridy, telling the host all about his love for airplanes and airports.

Have you recently returned to Galway to start a business? Or thinking of coming home?

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

If you have recently returned to Galway and are setting up a new business or are living abroad and are thinking of returning home with an idea you want to get off the ground – then Back for Business could be for you.

Back for Business is a development programme, funded from the Government’s Emigrant Support Programme, that was established to foster and support entrepreneurial activity among emigrants returning to live in Ireland.

Councillor says applicants ‘jump through hoops’ for Additional Needs Payment

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Independent Cllr Declan Kelly is calling on Minister Heather Humphreys to review the ‘cumbersome’ process around applying for the Additional Needs Payment.

Cllr Kelly has said that he knows of a number of instances where, he says, people are effectively being made to ‘jump through hoops’ to get the financial assistance.

Get along to Renmore Panto from tonight and support a key part of the city’s cultural history

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

A tradition that goes back more than four decades continues today when the Renmore Pantomime Society take to the stage for their 42nd production, with the magical and timeless tale of Cinderella.

Gardai appeal for information after fatal Christmas Eve collision

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Gardaí investigating the single car fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the R347 near Ballyglunin early on Chjristmas Eve have appealed for information that may help their investigation.

The driver, Jamie Barrett-Morley from Ryehill, Monivea died at the scene. The R347 (Between Annagh Hill and Palm Tree junction) was closed with local diversions in place, for the duration of the initial examination by Forensic Collision Investigators.

Galway native Mad Yolk farmer proves big hit on Stateside dating show

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

Galway farmer Brian Dilleen is well known to people in Galway as the man behind the Mad Yolk ethical farm that sells delicious pasture-raised eggs at markets across the west.

Annual Christmas Miscellany 2022

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

During World War 2, after Hitler had overrun the continent and invaded the Soviet Union, the allies had made a treaty with the Soviet Union to supply them with war supplies. Cargo included tanks, fighter planes, fuel, ammunition, raw materials, and food. The early convoys in particular delivered armoured vehicles and Hawker Hurricanes to make up for shortages in the Soviet Union. The Arctic convoys caused major changes to naval dispositions on both sides, which arguably had a major impact on the course of events in other theatres of war. As a result of early raids by destroyers on German coastal shipping and a Commando raid on the Norway coast, Hitler was led to believe that the British intended to invade Norway again. This, together with the obvious need to stop convoy supplies reaching the Soviet Union, caused him to direct that heavier ships, especially the battleship Tirpitz, be sent to Norway, along with submarines.

The Real Scrooge

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

One of the hallmarks of the work of 19th-century author Charles Dickens is his oddball characters and their fanciful names: Uriah Heep, Martin Chuzzlewit, Lady Honorie Dedlock, Pip Pirrip, Abel Magwich, Miss LaCreevy, and Bardle the Beedle, to name a few. Perhaps Dickens’ best-known character is Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol -who, it turns out, was inspired by a real person and whose name has become a byword for miserly and mean.

Daylight murder in Dublin

Thu, Dec 29, 2022

FROM THE TIMES DECEMBER 8, 1922
Dublin was profoundly shocked today at the news that one of the members of the new Free State Parliament had been murdered in the city’s streets, while another had been seriously wounded. Mr Sean Hales member for West Cork, the late Michael Collins’s constituency, and Mr Padraig O’Maille, member for Galway, who yesterday was elected Deputy-Speaker of the new House, had luncheon together at the Ormond Hotel, Ormond Quay. At about 2.30 they left the hotel to attend the meeting of Parliament and, having called a jaunting car, were shaking hands with the proprietor, who is a relative of one of them, when they were attacked by a band of armed men who were lying in wait for them along the quays. Several shots were fired, and Mr Hales fell immediately, shot through the temple and the lungs.

Dublin was profoundly shocked today at the news that one of the members of the new Free State Parliament had been murdered in the city’s streets, while another had been seriously wounded. Mr Sean Hales member for West Cork, the late Michael Collins’s constituency, and Mr Padraig O’Maille, member for Galway, who yesterday was elected Deputy-Speaker of the new House, had luncheon together at the Ormond Hotel, Ormond Quay. At about 2.30 they left the hotel to attend the meeting of Parliament and, having called a jaunting car, were shaking hands with the proprietor, who is a relative of one of them, when they were attacked by a band of armed men who were lying in wait for them along the quays. Several shots were fired, and Mr Hales fell immediately, shot through the temple and the lungs.