Fianna Fáil - about as legitimate as British rule in Ireland

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Thursday September 30 2010 – dubbed ‘Black Thursday’ by the opposition parties – may go down as the seminal point in the economic tsunami of these past two years.

Healy Eames in pole position to join McCormack on Galway West ticket

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

With support for Fianna Fáil in freefall and the party desperately clinging to its two seats in Galway West, the time is right for Fine Gael to land the killer blow and become the biggest party in the constituency.

Cannon fires warning over ‘dying’ tourism industry

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

An east Galway senator has warned the tourism industry is “dying on its feet” and insists urgent action is necessary to breathe life back into it.

Quilts, art, and workshops in Galway City Museum

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Galway City Museum is hosting a quilting exhibition from the North of Ireland, artwork by Cecil Maguire, and workshops for younger visitors keen to keep busy during the mid-term break.

Ó Brolcháin welcomes new measures for Galway Warmer Homes Scheme

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

New measures have been put in place to make it easier for Galway residents to access the Warmer Homes Scheme according to Galway senator Niall Ó Brolcháin.

Galway Abooo Festival returns for Halloween

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Halloween is coming and to celebrate all things spooky, ghoulish, and ghostly, the Galway Abooo Halloween Festival returns from Friday October 29 to Sunday 31.

Revolutionary acne peels now available at Therapie

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Acne is an inflammatory skin condition, which can be caused by a number of factors including stress and hormones, that evolves around hair follicles. Acne can affect all age groups.

Café 8 to host World Vegan Day

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

On Monday November 1 Café 8 at the Galway City Museum will host World Vegan Day with a range of vegan food on offer as well as films and music from 8pm to 10.30pm.

Missing springer spaniel

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A springer spaniel by the name of Lilly has been missing from the Clarenbridge area since Thursday October 7 and its owners are appealing to the public for help.

Galway launch for new book on Ireland’s turbulent weather

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Ireland’s turbulent weather from summer 2009 to summer 2010, which saw floods, torrential rain, and severe cold, is examined in a new book to be launched in Galway this evening.

Deluge, Ireland’s weather disasters, 2009–2010 by Dr Kieran Hickey, and published by Four Courts Press, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6pm.

Employment supports day at Galway Museum

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Galway Museum will be the venue for the third annual Employment Supports Day today (Thursday) from10am to 3.30pm.

Funding boost for recycling facilities in Galway

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Recycling facilities in Galway city and county are to receive a major boost with the announcement of funding from the Government.

Sums it all up

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

My head was all a spin last week with numbers, NAMA numbers, all 50 billion of them. Don’t get me started. I don’t have the energy for a rant. There is no leadership. There is no accountability. There is no empathy. How could there be, from politicians living in a bubble? Hell will freeze over before any of them will raise their hand and say ‘sorry, we got it all wrong’. Told ya not to get me started. I’m in a tizzy this week with more numbers. My head feels like a snow globe, when I lie down all the digits float into the space surrounding my would be brain. It’s numeracy here, not maths, not even sums as it was in my day. It was easy then, plus, minus, equals, divide by, carry one over and off ya go. Here, in primary school, they do things differently and all I’m hearing between sobs and frustrated pulling of hair is ‘that’s not the way Miss used to do it in Ireland’. Now The Middle has decided she doesn’t like sums anymore even though she’s a dinger at them. She sets herself high standards. I know it will click. I will have to dig deep for the patience and tenacity required. The mathematical language is dissimilar. There’s talk of chunking and arrays and woe betide ya if you mention ‘carry over’. We are not to teach our children maths the way we were taught, teacher told us at a ‘Multiplication for Mums and Dads’ evening. Sure what else would you be doing of a Tuesday night. The response in our day, at the kitchen table doing homework, (while the dreaded stew with the sneaky parsnips boiled on the range) to a cry for assistance with maths was ‘I don’t know anything about equations, ask your brother’. And the rows continue over the lack of decent pencils and no toppers.

So there’s those maths. Then there are my own stats. I have to master a fancy Excel package, all by my own self, for a research project. Here’s where Himself comes in. I have him driven demented. Chi-squares, Spearman’s rho correlations do not float my boat; I got on fine without them up until now, thank you very much. Discombobulated is the only way to describe my demeanour at this present moment. The trajectory for the book-window-outside wheelie bin has already been worked out and I didn’t need any maths for that. It will just take maximum force and velocity.

Museum hosts Community Outreach Intercultural Celebration

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Children from several schools gathered at Galway City Museum on Tuesday for a fun day of story-telling, poetry, films, and music.

Enjoy some pampering and raise money for Galway Simon

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Fancy being pampered and raising money for a good cause? If so, go along to the Pampering Night in aid of Galway Simon at the Radisson Blu Hotel (tomorrow) Friday at 7pm.

Eyre Square’s Prestige salon celebrates second birthday

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Prestige Salon, Eyre Square, recently celebrated two years in business, and despite the recession is going from strength to strength with every passing month. With such a great location (above Matt O' Flaherty's Chemist, next door to Supermacs) and offering a wide range of services at very competitive prices in hair, beauty and tanning it's no great surprise that Prestige has become so popular so fast.

Cuddy calls for consultation before final decision on waste water treatment plant

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Locating a waste water treatment plant near heavily populated areas in Glenascaul, Oranmore, and Gurran makes no sense and the idea must be re-examined.

Two men fined after Eye Square altercation

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Two men, who incensed by racist comments became embroiled in an altercation at Eyre Square, were both fined €350.

NUIG Students’ Union to support Movember campaign

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The NUI Galway Students’ Union will be encouraging male students to grow a moustache for Movember to raise funds for the Action Prostate Programme run by the Irish Cancer Society.

Galway West Wine Club

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Co Op Bar Restaurant this November launches the new Galway West Wine Club, a great chance not only to enjoy some of the best wines, learn which wines are the best value, but also an opportunity to taste some of the delicious dishes of the region being featured at each meeting prepared by the Co Op's team of talented chefs.

The first country to be highlighted in early November will be France. Each member will have a chance to benefit from some great bargains and the club plans to have a great excursion in the Spring to one of the great wine regions being featured.

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