Logged on with LinkedIn

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

Last week in this article series we explored how Facebook can be used as a marketing tool. This week we investigate how LinkedIn, now the world’s largest business social media network of 80 million members with almost 350,000 in Ireland, can be utilised effectively.

Train the Trainer

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

Galway’s premier subsidised training organisation, Galway Executive Skillnet(GES,) is offering a four-day Train the Trainer course at highly competitive prices.

Yeats College leads Galway schools in UCD tables

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

Yeats College has recently been recognised as the highest ranking school outside of Dublin to provide students to UCD. The college has performed extremely well on a national level, coming in 10th in a recent study of the top feeder schools to UCD for 2010.

FG poll shows Fianna Fáil in danger of losing second seat

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Fianna Fáil is in danger of being reduced to one seat in Galway West at the next general election while Labour and Catherine Connolly look like fighting it out for the left wing seat, according to a new poll.

City will pay big price if it runs market out of town

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Have you ever seen anything that has gone out of style such as the kick in the arse? When I was young, it was all the rage. If you annoyed your brother, you got a kick in the arse. If you fought with your friends, you got a kick in the arse, even in the school I went to, the teachers would send the boot in the direction of your cheeks if they felt you deserved it.

Support for new investigation into Brothers of Charity abuse

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Fine Gael children spokesperson Charlie Flanagan has called for a re-investigation into allegations of abuse at two facilities in Galway overseen by the Brothers of Charity.

Mervue’s ordinary Joe Soap receives top Rotary award

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

“An ordinary Joe Soap from Mervue” has joined an elite list of presidents, royalty and world leaders to have been awarded with the highest accolade Rotary can bestow on a person

Boston-Ireland medical tech conference at NUI Galway

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) at NUI Galway will host a one-day conference on the medical technology clusters in Ireland and Massachusetts on Thursday, October 28, in the Bailey Allen Hall.

The purpose of the conference is to learn about the cluster of medical technology companies in Massachusetts and in particular the industry-specific organisations that drive the cluster’s development. Within this context the conference will discuss the future path of Ireland’s medical technology sector. The event is aimed at practitioners from industry and public policy agencies, as well as academics, and will provide a unique opportunity to forge links between medical technology organisations in the two regions.

Cancellation of cancer procedures eroding confidence in public health system, claims FG senator

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Patients’ confidence in the public health system is being eroded as further cancer procedures are being cancelled at University Hospital Galway due to bed shortages and staff cuts.

Events for all the family at Coole

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Coole Park series of cultural events is now under way with a series of arts events beginning today (Thursday) as part of the Winter Arts and Heritage Programme 2010.

Born building is Galway’s favourite

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Born building in Newtownsmith was voted Galway’s favourite building in a telephone poll carried out by Galway Bay FM to mark Open House Galway 2010 which was held last weekend. Born headed a list which included the Augustinian Church, the Marine Institute, GMIT, and the Galway City Museum.

Eighteen-year-old Ciara Forde from Moycullen, who selected the winning building, was presented with her prize of two flights to Venice by Open House Galway chairman Patrick McCabe at the official opening of Open House Galway last Friday.

Local teacher scoops science award

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A local Galway teacher has become the first in Ireland to be awarded the prestigious Teacher of Primary Science Award 2010 for her dedication and passion for educating her students.There is a chant which regularly brings Jane McLoughlin's senior infants class at Scoil Chaitriona, in Renmore, to life.

Win tickets to the October racing festival in Ballybrit

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Ballybrit Racecourse will play host to two days of National Hunt racing this Bank Holiday weekend as the October Galway Races get under way on Sunday. The Galway Advertiser will be giving away some pairs of tickets to the meeting in conjunction with the Galway Race Committee and Renvyle House Hotel who are sponsoring a race at Ballybrit on Sunday.

Suspected criminal fraud gang members arrested

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The activities of a criminal gang which attempted to steal more than €1.3 million from charities and businesses in just one month has been thwarted by gardai when a major operation, involving the searching of properties in Galway, resulted in the arrest of three suspects.

According to gardai an investigation was established by the Cheque and Payment Card Unit, Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, and a search operation was put in place on the morning of October 13 last at suspected addresses in Drogheda and Galway. It is believed that fraud squad detectives, supported by local gardai, carried out searches at properties in the Headford Road/Ballindooley area of the city. At both locations gardai recovered pieces of equipment used to manufacture counterfeit credit cards and to get bank details. At the Drogheda address, detectives also found forged documentation used to perpetrate a number of fraud offences, and numerous business cheques and cheque books which are thought to have been stolen from the postal system in Ireland and the UK.

Disability group warns cuts will ‘wreak havoc’

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Hope4Disability, the Galway based disability representative group, fears that lifeline supports being availed of by its members will be slashed as part of the health cutbacks.

Man fined for pushing and kicking out at garda

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A Newcastle man who resisted arrest by pushing, hitting, and kicking out at a garda was fined €550 when he appeared at Galway District Court this week.

Galway Nigerians to celebrate Nigerian independence

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Nigeria celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain this year and Galway’s Nigerian community will also be marking the occasion.

Senator slams retired teachers returning while graduates are ‘on dole’

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Fine Gael Seanad education spokesperson Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has slammed schools which employ retired teachers to provide substitute cover when hundreds of newly qualified teachers are jobless.

Tasty and temptin’ — Student prankster caught with hand in Supermac’s till

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A foolish drunken prank led to a student messing around with the buttons of a Supermacs cash register, reaching over the counter, and putting his hands in the till to steal €240 cash, the Galway District Court heard this week.

Leasing homes to landlords will not solve housing crisis says Connolly

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Leasing homes for landlords to rent to applicants on the housing waiting list is not the way to solve the housing crisis in Galway according to Independent councillor Catherine Connolly.

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