Greenway group hopes to progress project

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

Galway Greenway Group is a consortium of business owners, hoteliers, landowners, families, and individuals who want to see the completion of the Connemara Greenway from Galway City to Clifden. The project has been dogged by objections in the last few years and the discussion up to now has been increasingly negative for various reasons.

City rugby sides continue to struggle

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

There was no luck for Galway's Ulster Bank League rugby teams at the weekend, with Galwegians pipped by Ballymena 14-13, and Corinthians falling to Nenagh 34-18.

In division 1B Galwegians suffered yet another frustrating defeat when for the second time this season they lost out to old rivals Ballymena by a solitary point.

Galway basketball teams face crucial league fixtures

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

With the clock ticking down to the end of the regular season, the pressure is now on Galway basketball teams to try to move up their respective league tables.

City council supports staffless libraries on trial basis

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

The Galway City Council has recommended the introduction of the new ‘Open Library’ system on a trial basis in the city’s libraries.

The system has been piloted in 22 libraries across the country with it being extended to Ballinasloe and Athenry libraries.

Free information evening on sexual health for LGBT+ community

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

A free information evening on sexual health will take place in the Teach Solais LGBT+ Resource Centre, on Merchants Road, and is open to all members of the LGBT+ community, family, and friends.

The Galway branch of the National LGBT Helpline is hosting the event which takes place this evening at 7.45pm, with speakers Dr Patricia Cremin and Clare Coleman from the UCHG Sexual Health Clinic. The helpline, which launched in Galway in May 2015, recently took up residence in the newly opened resource centre. The event is also open to helpline volunteers as well.

Galway to welcome home Altantic rowing hero Gavan this weekend

Thu, Feb 16, 2017

Galway will officially welcome home world recorder holder for a solo Atlantic row Gavan Hennigan, this Sunday at the Salthill Hotel from 12 noon to 2pm.

Automatic disqualification for drink drivers

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

Cabinet approves legislation brought forward by Minister Shane Ross to ensure that all drivers detected of drink driving receive a disqualification

Defibrillator Makes Business Sense and Helps Save Lives

Wed, Feb 15, 2017

The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen on Galway’s Eyre Square has launched the city’s very first 24/7 defibrillator service.

Galway rent increases labelled 'daft' and 'scandalous'

Tue, Feb 14, 2017

Rents in Galway have jumped by almost 11 per cent in the county and 10 per cent in the city in the last year, according to the latest Daft.ie rental report, leading a Galway senator to demand Government intervention on the issue.

Vigil to take place outside UHG this week

Tue, Feb 14, 2017

A vigil is to be held outside UHG this Thursday to protest against cutbacks to and the crisis within the health service. The vigil is part of a series that will be taking place across the State, led by The Still Waiting Campaign.

Major funds allocated to Town Hall and city museum

Mon, Feb 13, 2017

Funding of almost €300,000 is to be granted to two of Galway's premier arts and cultural facilities - the Galway City Museum and the Town Hall Theatre under the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs' Arts and Culture Capital Scheme 2016 - 2018.

Free information evening on sexual health for LGBT+ community

Mon, Feb 13, 2017

A free information evening on sexual health will take place in the Teach Solais LGBT+ Resource Centre, on Merchants Road, this week, and is open to all members of the LGBT+ community, family, and friends.

Hard Brexit and drink laws could devastate local hospitality sector, says study

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

The combination of a hard Brexit and the Public Health Alcohol Bill pose a major threat to Galway’s economy, according to a report by agri-economist Ciaran Fitzgerald on behalf of the Alcohol Beverage Federation of Ireland (ABFI).

Protest against worsening accommodation crisis to take place at City Hall on Monday night

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

A protest against the rise in the number of people sleeping rough in Galway, and the continuing problem of housing and accommodation, will take place outside City Hall on Monday February 13 at 3.30pm.

‘GAA has a very special place in Irish society’ says presidential candidate

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

With the announcement of the new GAA president just over a fortnight away, Galway’s Frank Burke sat down with Matt Cassidy to talk about his campaign to be elected to one of the biggest jobs in Irish sport and only the third Galway man to hold the position.

Galway Pride Festival returns for the twenty eighth year

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

Building on the success of last year’s Galway Pride Festival, local businessman Bruce Henry is returning to lead the event again in 2017.

Announcing the dates of the festival, which will run from August 11 to 20, Henry described the changes that are planned for this year’s festivities and its organising committee as necessary but exciting.

Think Left - a socialist conference in Galway

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

In 1930, Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci wrote, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” In this era of Trump, Brexit, ISIS, and the alt-right, many will feel 2017 is very similar to the time Gramsci wrote about.

Join fundraiser Ronan Scully on 100k trek to raise funds for Gorta Self Help Africa

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

Ronan Scully, winner of Operation Transformation in 2011 and well known for his fundraising work with Gorta Self Help Africa, is undertaking a Camino de Santiago walk this summer to raise much needed funds to address hunger in communities across Africa supported by the charity. Mr Scully is looking for volunteers to join him on the walk.

From the travelling shop — Joe O’Toole SuperValu celebrates 50 years in business

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

It’s a long way from the Travelling Shop — but in some sense, the values that drove that are what drive on Joe O’Toole as he approaches his 85th birthday and the fiftieth anniversary of his Tuam store.

Galwayman seeks memories of his father for memorial documentary

Thu, Feb 09, 2017

A Galwayman who is making a documentary about his late father - Mussarrat Ali Ansari, one of the first Pakistani Muslims to live in the city - is asking for Galwegians who knew him to help out by sharing their memories of the man.

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