Funding announced for Claregalway/Oranmore roads

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Additional funding of €400,000 for roads in the Oranmore area has been provided by the Department of Transport, but it must be spent within the next six months.

Nominations sought for Rehab Galway People of the Year awards

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Nominations for the 18th Annual Rehab Galway People of the Year awards are now being accepted by the Rehab Foundation in Galway which the organisers of this very high profile and prestigious event which honours and recognises the high achievers in our city and county.

Julian Gough’s new novella on Anglo-type greed to be published in two weeks

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

As the revelations from the Anglo tapes cause public revulsion at the financial culture of greed, megalomania, and callous disregard for the welfare of the State and its citizens, a new novella, which satirises such behaviour, is about to be published.

Westside park to be transformed into sports campus

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Works to transform Westside Amenity Park into Westside Sports Campus will begin in September with €1.75 million in funding secured for the project.

Pandora’s Box vintage fair takes place on Saturday

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The monthly indoor thrift and vintage market Pandora’s Box takes place in the Electric Garden, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday from 12 noon to 6pm.

With this being the Glastonbury weekend, Pandora’s Box will have a festival theme. On sale will be bohemian festival gear from stalls from Cotton Face Vintage, Vintage by Natalie, the Simon shop, and Italian Vintage Shop. There will also be a pop up hair feather stand and a plus size shop.

Save Mountbellew Agricultural Show

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The Save Mountbellew Agricultural Show campaign has been launched to try to ensure a future for one of the oldest and most popular agricultural shows in County Galway.

Connaughton welcomes additional resource teaching posts in schools

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Five hundred additional posts are to be created in schools to cope with a substantial increase in demand for resource teaching hours.

A bit of bubbly and a touch of style

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Customers of Concepts Ladies Fashions in Oranmore are in for a treat this evening as part of its four year birthday celebrations. The style haven in the Carraig Lair Shopping Centre in Oranmore will host its much anticipated customer evening at their store.

Browse the many exquisite labels on offer while enjoying a glass of bubbly and up to 50 per cent off selected stock. Don’t know what to wear for the Races? Get your complete outfit, including exclusive headpieces and stylish bags, at Concepts.

Culture and tradition to be celebrated next week at Spiddal 2013

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Traidphicnic is back for the second year. The festival, which celebrates Irish culture and traditions, will run in Spiddal on Friday July 5 and Saturday July 6.

Missed outpatient appointments cost Galway and Roscommon hospitals €3m last year

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Last year almost 40,000 patients did not attend appointments or notify the hospitals in the Galway and Roscommon University Hospital Group that they could not attend in advance. This cost the hospital group over €3 million in lost time preparing for appointments for patients who did not turn up.

Ahmadiyya Muslims to host intercultural exhibition in Galway

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

An exhibition covering issues of religion, interculturalism, integration, and diversity, opens in the Ballybane Library on Tuesday.

Charity golf tournament tomorrow

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Youth mental health charity Jigsaw and the Abalta school for Autism are set to benefit from a charity golf tournament.

Why I cannot support the Government’s Abortion Bill

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Few pieces of legislation in the history of Dáil Éireann have been the subject of more polarising and divisive debate than the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013.

At the conclusion of the second stage of the Bill in the coming days, I will be voting against the proposed legislation – putting me at odds with Fine Gael and likely to lose the parliamentary party whip.

The Strypes to play festival Big Top

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The Strypes, the Cavan blues and r’n’b band who have won the admiration of Dave Grohl and Elton John, will play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top next month.

Hospice ascent of Reek a great success

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The recent annual Croagh Patrick climb in aid of Galway Hospice was a huge success, setting a new record with more than 1,000 climbers taking part, an increase of 800 on the previous year.

Galway Film Fleadh marks quarter of a century with bumper programme

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto, Irish star Saoirse Ronan, and Sex Pistols documentary and film maker Julian Temple, are coming to Galway for the 25th Galway Film Fleadh from Tuesday July 9 to Sunday 14.

The fleadh was launched in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Tuesday and this year’s programme features the usual high standards of Irish and world cinema, including feature length films, shorts, animations, and documentaries.

JKF - 50th Anniversary of presidential Visit to Galway

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

It lasted only an hour, but for a generation of Galwegians it was a momentous occasion, one that gave a city and a population emerging from the oppressive 1950s, a much needed boost of confidence. It was the day US president John F Kennedy came to visit.

Walsh tells Taoiseach and colleagues of potentially career-ending decision

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Brian Walsh has become the third member of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party and the second Galway West politician to declare he will vote against the forthcoming Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.

Dep Walsh, TD for Galway West, and the leading Fine Gael politician in the constituency, had already signalled his intent to vote against the Bill, citing the inclusion of the suicide ideation as the reason for his opposition.

Threats made to staff at UHG where significant improvements have been made, meeting hears

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

A report by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) into the death of Savita Halappanavar is due to be published by the end of the summer, the first public meeting of the board of the Galway and Roscommon University Hospitals Group heard this week.

50 years since JFK, but it may as well be a hundred

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Over the course of the next week, you will be regaled with anecdotes about the day the most famous man in the world came to Galway and how for one day, everything came to a standstill. And how the snapshots in our mind, whether they be colour or black and white were forever crystallised on those heady days and in the sad months that followed, as reality became legend and legend became myth.

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