Galway Sea Festival public information meeting

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

The first Galway Sea Festival takes place on the June Bank Holiday Weekend and a public information meeting will be held on Thursday 21 March at 6pm in the Meyrick Hotel, Eyre Square.

All involved in business, tourism, marine, and leisure activity are invited and welcome to attend to hear plans and share views on the festival.

Rickshaws to take their final ride in the summer

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

By the middle of summer, rickshaws will no longer operate in Galway city as the current licences will be allowed expire but not be renewed.

Mayoral Charity Ball to take place in May

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

This year’s Mayoral Charity Ball will take place on Saturday May 18 in The Ardilaun.

Newcastle man jailed for threatening bouncer with imitation firearm

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

A Newcastle man who pointed an imitation firearm at a city centre bouncer and became so aggressive with gardai that pepper spray had to be used to restrain him was sentenced to 13 months in jail this week.

Charles Cunniffe (29) with an address at 6 Greenview Heights, Newcastle, appeared before Judge Aeneas McCarthy at Galway District Court on Monday where he pleaded guilty to being in possession of the realistic firearm in a public place at High Street on November 4, 2012. However, Cunniffe denied the charges of threatening and abusive behaviour at High Street and obstruction at Galway Garda Station on the same date.

Love Your Town and win a day of indulgence

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

A campaign to support local businesses and to reward those that take part has been launched by one of Galway’s biggest motor dealers.

Try Spar Express Tasty Deli at Sweeney Oil, Headford Road

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

The ‘New’ Tasty Deli in Sweeney Oil, Headford Point is really worth visiting. Tasty Deli is a ‘food all day’ concept that brings the deli in the store alive. The deli offer is unique for breakfast, lunch and dinner so no matter what time you visit the store you will find an offer to suit you.

Newcastle man jailed for threatening bouncer with imitation firearm

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

A Newcastle man who pointed an imitation firearm at a city centre bouncer and became so aggressive with gardai that pepper spray had to be used to restrain him was sentenced to 13 months in jail this week.

Man smashes up own car when told it would be seized, court hears

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

A 26-year-old Athenry man who violently smashed up up his own car with an iron bar when told by a gardai that it was going to be seized, has been sentenced to a total of four months in jail.

Get involved in the Galway Food Festival

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

The public are being urged to visit the upcoming Galway Food Festival and truly get involved by talking and getting to know all the producers and exhibitors who will be showing off their products and skills during the Easter bank holiday weekend event.

N17/18 road project a ‘watershed in the development of the west’

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

Galway and the west of Ireland is in line for a major employment boost in the construction sector with the announcement that the three and a half year N17/N18 Tuam to Gort motorway road project is to begin construction.

After six years of lobbying, construction of the long awaited motorway, to provide an additional 57km of motorway along a key artery of the west’s economic corridor, begins later this year.

Grealish lashes Noonan over vague property tax answers

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

Residents of housing estates, who are already paying maintenance fees to a management company, should not have to pay the property tax as they should not have to pay twice for the same service.

This is the view of Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish who was also highly critical of the Minister for Finance Michael Noonan over what he alleged were “vague answers” to questions Dep Grealish raised in the Dáil on Tuesday.

Busy week on the roads for gardai and emergency services

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

Gardai and the emergency services were kept busy over the past few days attending the scenes of a number of road traffic accidents, one of which resulted in the untimely death of a young Corrundulla man.

Companies queue up for list for GMIT tourism fair

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

For the first time, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology has to operate a waiting list for companies wishing to recruit students for jobs and work placements at GMIT’s annual Tourism and Hospitality Careers Fair, which will take place on Wednesday March 13 from 1.30pm to 4.30pm.

Media coverage of Savita Halappanavar’s tragic death showed ‘no respect for dignity of patient or her family’

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

“Unacceptable” and “regrettable” is how the general manager of University Hospital Galway has described the media coverage last month about the contents of a draft report into the tragic death of 31-year-old mother-to-be Savita Halappanavar at the hospital in late October.

Five Galway settlements on latest tax defaulters’ list

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

Five individuals in Galway made tax settlements totalling just over €920,000 in the last quarter of 2012, figures released by the Revenue this week reveal.

The five — four people and a company — were among those named in Revenue’s quarterly list of tax defaulters.

Galway farewells a champion of Irish food

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

When the late and much loved Gerry Galvin and his wife Marie opened Drimcong restaurant near Moycullen in the 1980s, Gerry came with the glowing accolade as one of Ireland's leading chefs.

Kyne demands answers over fish farm proposals

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

Unless vital questions over sea lice, contamination of fish stocks, and issues of employment are addressed openly and publicly, the public cannot have any confidence in decisions made about the controversial fish farm for Galway Bay.

Daffadil Day hopes to raise €3.4m for cancer services 

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

Almost 1,500 people were diagnosed with cancer in Galway in 2010 - the latest year for which figures are available - according to the Irish Cancer Society.

Council must support of the food festival

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

The Galway Food Festival will provide a “vital boost to the local economy”, bars and restaurants, and local suppliers and so must be supported by the Galway City Council.

This is the view of Fianna Fáil city councillor Ollie Crowe who is calling on the local authority to provide funding in the region of €30,000 to the festival. A decision on whether or not to grant the money will be made by councillors at Monday’s city council meeting.

Oscar fashion designer gives boost to local charity

Thu, Mar 07, 2013

An exclusive gift for that someone special is up for grabs at this year’s annual Charity Gala Ball in aid of local heart and stroke charity Croí which will take place in the Radisson Blu Hotel Galway on Friday March 22.

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