Jailed burglar urged to snitch on his accomplices

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

A young man who was given an extra two months in jail for a burglary at a credit union was urged to stop taking the full blame and to snitch on his accomplices.

Scottish seaman skips town without paying local B&B

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

A Scottish merchant seaman has been given until today to hand over the €245 owed to a local B&B owner after he skipped town without paying.

‘Unfortunate’ homeless man jailed for three months

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

A Galway District Court judge described as “unfortunate” the case of a homeless man who fell into drink following the break-up of his marriage.

Funding for Carna Lifeboat boathouse

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Funding totalling €200,000 has been announced this week towards the provision of a boathouse in Carna for the Carna and Islands Lifeboat.

Road traffic offender ruins chances of Christmas without jail

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

A Galway man who had continuously driven while disqualified and attempted to ‘hoodwink’ gardai ruined his chances of staying out of jail for Christmas when he walked out of court and failed to return.

New Inn prepares for thirty first annual Mummers’ Festival

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

The renowned New Inn Mummers’ Festival will take place on Saturday January 3 and Sunday January 4.

Terry Eagleton - taking on the capitalists and atheists in Galway

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Terry Eagleton - Marxist, Christian, academic, literary critic, - and a provocative voice who relishes taking on those who disagree with him, is rightly regarded as one of the world’s foremost intellectuals.

Teenager who set fire to Garda patrol car refused bail

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

A teenager charged with setting fire to a Garda patrol car was refused bail this week because he had continually ignored warnings given to him by the court.

Darren Moran (18) with an address at 20 Rinn Lia, Ballybrit, was brought before Judge Mary Fahy again last Monday charged with allegedly setting fire to the driver and passenger seat of a Ford Mondeo car, property of An Garda Siochana, and with resisting Garda Declan Fawl at Rinn Lia on December 7, 2007.

Connolly urges An Post to operate parcel retrieval service at GPO

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Deputy Mayor Cllr Colette Connolly is calling on An Post to operate a parcel retrieval facility at the GPO in Eglinton Street.

Case of stolen chicken breast a ‘waste of resources’, says judge

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

A case in which a homeless man was brought to court for stealing a southern fried chicken breast, valued at only €2.69, was described by a Galway District Court judge recently as a “total waste of resources”.

Get to grips with sign language with the Centre for Sign Language Studies

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

The Centre for Sign Language Studies — formerly known as the Conroy School of ISL — was established in 2001 to develop a centre of excellence in the west of Ireland for the study of the deaf community and Irish Sign Language and to provide consultation and advice, interpreting, and translation services.

Huge response to Evergreen colouring competition

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Evergreen Healthfoods has been inundated with entries to its second annual Christmas colour competition. The competition, which ran for two weeks in early December, received nearly 1,000 entries across three age categories from children throughout Galway.

Hide your inhibitions at Karma on New Year’s Eve

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Karma Club Galway will host a night of masked entertainment with a masquerade ball for New Year’s Eve.

People sought to train for bereavement support groups

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

People interested in becoming bereavement support volunteers are invited to attend a training course in Galway in the New Year.

Council to approach Government a second time for water assistance

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

The Galway City Council has voted to make a second bid to the Government seeking funding to assist with the pipe replacement in Old Mervue and other areas of the city affected by the lead water crisis.

The inside story of the city council budget

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Now that the back slapping is over and political kudos have been gained by politicians across the board for a most courageous, progressive, budget in recessionary times maybe it is appropriate at this stage to ask some pertinent questions as to the political intricacies of its birth, formulation, and delivery.

Will FF convince Phelim O’Neill to run?

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

After months of speculation, fretting, and mystery, it finally appears as if Fianna Fáil will have two candidates to stand in June’s Local Elections in Galway City West.

For a number of weeks, there was intense speculation that FF may end up having to run just one candidate. However it is understood that this evening, FF officials will meet with NUI, Galway law graduate and young businessman Phelim O’Neill, to convince him to run for the party alongside Peter Keane.

Will Libertas candidates add spice to Galway’s EU election campaign?

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

You can almost see it - an Irish politician scolding his bold child with the threat of ‘I’ll send you to Declan Ganley if you don’t behave yourself!’

SF candidate wants to bring City Hall ‘into the 21st century’

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Martin Concannon will stand for Sinn Féin in Galway City East at the local elections in June and wants local government and how it operates to be “brought into the 21st century”.

What we achieved in Brussels

Thu, Dec 18, 2008

Last week the Taoiseach and I met for two days with EU leaders in Brussels. We discussed a series of highly significant issues for Galway, for Ireland and the European Union. These included climate change, an EU-wide economic stimulus package worth some €200 billion and the future of the Lisbon Treaty.

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