Volunteering fair at NUIG
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The eighth annual NUI Galway volunteering fair will take place on Thursday September 24 in Áras na Mac Léinn from 1pm to 5pm. With over 2,000 students, staff and members of the general public expected to attend, the fair will be officially opened by Galway City Mayor Declan McDonnell. Over 60 charities and community organisations will showcase the wide range of volunteer opportunities available for students.
Read more ...Herb day at Brigit’s Garden
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A celebration of healing and culinary herbs will take place on Sunday at 2pm at Brigit’s Garden in Roscahill.
Read more ...Countdown begins to Galway Culture Night
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The second Galway Culture Night takes place on Friday September 25 with a host of free events, shows, exhibitions, and performances taking place throughout the city.
Read more ...Galway Camera Club’s new season starts tonight
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The Galway Camera Club’s 2009/2010 season opens tonight with a cheese and wine reception in the White Room in the GMIT Campus, Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark.
Read more ...Atlantic Galway wins international award
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The achievements of Galway language school Atlantic Language were celebrated on Saturday night last at the annual Language Travel Star Awards in London where the company was named Best Language School in Europe.
Read more ...New child and adolescent counselling service
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A new and innovative counselling service is being launched in Galway this month.
Read more ...Medical device company expands in Spiddal
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Cambus Medical have announced the creation of more than 60 new jobs at their medical device company in Spiddal, bringing the total workforce to over 85 people.
Read more ...Twenty new jobs for Moycullen
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Local businessman Frank Heneghan is set to create 20 new jobs with the opening of The Co-op, a new bar/restaurant/venue in Moycullen on September 18.
Read more ...Multiple sclerosis fundraiser
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A fundraising event in aid of multiple sclerosis will take place in The Ardilaun on Wednesday September 18 from 8pm.
Read more ...Ireland’s best kept secret now on DVD
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
It’s one of the west’s best kept secrets, but perhaps not for much longer.
Read more ...Salthill Community Arts Festival line-up
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Salthill is set to celebrate the city’s vibrant literary scene as Galway’s many writers and poets - both published and aspiring - read at the Salthill Community Arts Festival.
Read more ...Will a gender quota address the lack of women in politics?
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Since the re-establishment of the Galway Borough Council in 1937, very few women have been elected to the Galway City Council or Galway Corporation, as it was then known.
Read more ...The ball is in the Yes campaign’s court
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The American columnist and wit Franklin P Adams noted that elections are won “chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody”.
Read more ...Big demand for swine flu seminarBig demand for swine flu seminar
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
An “unprecedented” number of businesses in Galway and Mayo have signed up to attend a swine flu seminar in the city next week.
Read more ...Eyre Square Centre market
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Coinciding with National Organic Week, the Eyre Square Centre is launching a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday market on Thursday September 17 at 1pm.
Read more ...Paranoid schizophrenic jailed for nine months
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A paranoid schizophrenic who ripped wires out of a boat, threw stools in a pub, and threatened to blow up a garda statio, has been sentenced to a total of nine months.
Read more ...Chinese night in aid of Croi
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The Chinese restaurant, the Royal Villa in Salthill, has teamed up with local heart charity Croí to host a novel Chinese evening on Tuesday September 29.
Read more ...HMS Bounty to star at the Galway Oyster Festival
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The most photographed square rigged sail ship in the world, the HMS Bounty, will be part of this year’s Galway International Oyster Festival.
Read more ...Soviets had their eyes on Galway
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
During the Cold War era Ireland was economically poor, everything was State owned, run, and operated, and the interiors of public buildings seemed to be covered in linoleum and Formica.
Read more ...Castle Print and Galway Chamber team up
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Castle Print and the Galway Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to produce the Chamber Newsletter.
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