Progress in Vietnamese adoption issue will help Galway families, says Healy Eames

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Fine Gael Galway Senator Fidelma Healy Eames, has this week welcomed the news that the adoptions of Vietnamese children to Ireland may soon be resumed as signalled by Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald, following her visit to Vietnam last week.

Last call for submissions on citywide transport consultation

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Mayor of Galway Hildegarde Naughton has called on Galway residents to make their views known on the future of traffic management in the city before the deadline for a public consultation which has been taking place for the past seven weeks. This is the last week of the city-wide transport survey, entitled ‘Galway Transport – Engage for a liveable city’, which seeks to promote public discourse on how to improve the city’s overburdened traffic systems. The survey will end on Saturday.

Four hundred jobs to be created in construction thanks to €75m spend on university development

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

An estimated 400 jobs are expected to be created in the construction sector at NUI Galway as part of a €75 million spend on university developments.

UHG doctor in misconduct case says the way to treat women is to pamper them

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

A UHG doctor with seven allegations of professional misconduct against him, including that he sent inappropriate emails and texts to female colleagues, has told a fitness to practise committee he believes the way to treat women is “to pamper them”.

Dr Onada Olajide Onada (40), who worked as a senior house officer (SHO) at University Hospital Galway from August 2010 to January 2011, told a Medical Council inquiry he was a happily married man and did not believe he had been inappropriate towards the women.

HSE service plan will result in ‘drastic’ cuts, warns county councillor

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

A local county councillor has accused the Minister for Health of approving a service plan which will result in “drastic” cuts and increasing waiting times for hospital procedures.

Parrott fined for calling gardai ‘pigs’

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

A 24-year-old student who was extremely abusive to gardai calling them “pigs” and other offensive remarks was fined €500 and warned to behave himself in future.

Father and daughter to give talk on their Camino experience

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Father and daughter team Peter and Natasha Murtagh will speak at a public meeting in Galway on Tuesday January 24 on their amazing 900km trek together across Northern Spain along the famed pilgrim path of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

Their story inspired them to write a book, Buen Camino, which has received a lot of media attention and they are coming to Galway to support local heart and stroke charity Croí who are currently promoting two charity treks on the Camino – one in June and the other in September of this year.

Nominations open for Mayor’s Awards

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Mayor of Galway Hildegarde Naughton has called on people to submit their nominations for this year’s Mayor’s Awards, saying that all nominees are winners in their own right.

Galway makes top ten Lonely Planet places to visit list

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Galway city and its surrounds has been rated one of the top 10 places to visit in Ireland, according to the 10th edition of the Lonely Planet’s Ireland guide was was published recently.

John Jennings Galway City Library exhibition

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

GALWAY BASED animator John Jennings has an exhibition of comic book and manga art in the Galway City Library children’s section.

Acknowledging the Debt to our forebears

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

“There are cases, in which more knowledge of more value may be conveyed by the history of a word than by the history of a campaign.” Indeed, this observation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge may be opened out to include not merely single words, but also aphorisms, metaphors, and short significant sayings. And one of the most striking of these is one he himself used in The Friend: "The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on."

Galway credit unions not affected by Central Bank take-over scare

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

The savings of credit union members in the Galway area are safe and secure, according to the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU).

God Particle theories to be examined at Galway Astronomy Festival this weekend

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Have scientists discovered a particle, popularly referred to as the "God Particle", that travels faster than the speed of light?

Dr. Ronan McNulty, currently researching this project at the CERN Research Centre Switzerland, will answer this question and many others at the Galway Astronomy Festival, taking place at the Westwood Hotel, Newcastle, on this Saturday, January 21

Oranmore gets funds to twin with French town of Clohars Fouesnant

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

A County Galway community group has received a €5,000 EU grant to help with its town twinning project.

Rith 2012 ag teacht go Gaillimh

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

Is in Inis Mór, Árann, a chuirfear críoch le Rith 2012, ar lá le Pádraig na bliana seo, tráth a bhainfear amach ceann scríbe ollrith 1,000km a chuirfear tús leis sa Bhun Beag, Gaoth Dobhair, ar Déardaoin 8 Márta.

Oíche na bhfoghlaimeoirí

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

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Loughrea anti-household charge public meeting

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

A public meeting will be held in Loughrea to launch a local campaign against the Government’s proposed household charge.

Galway Film Centre scriptwriting workshop

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

The Galway Film Centre is running a two-day practical workshop to help aspirant scriptwriters improve and refine their writing skills.

Galway to host Lego League Challenge

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

The Radisson Blu Hotel will open its doors to some of Ireland’s brightest and creative youngsters as they compete in the national FIRST LEGO League Robotics Challenge.

NRA must explain refusal to grant bus company licence for high frequency service

Thu, Jan 19, 2012

The National Transport Authority (NRA) must explain the reasoning behind its refusal to grant a Galway bus company a licence to operate a higher frequency service along the soon-to-be completed Seamus Quirke Road and Bishop O’Donnell Road, according to Galway West Fine Gael Deputy Seán Kyne.

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