US company announces thirty new jobs in the city

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Galway received a boost yesterday with the announcement that mobile innovation company Synchronoss Technologies Inc is creating 30 new jobs in the city.

Dress up for the the music drive in aid of Barnardos

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Supermac’s will host a Halloween party with a difference at its Headford Road restaurant tomorrow.

Irish drama scholars gather in Galway for international conference

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Leading scholars of Irish drama will gather in Galway this week for the Irish Society for Theatre Research annual conference.

Through the glass darkly

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Those who have been forced through serious illness – I am thinking now of cancer - to confront and acknowledge the existence within them of a mindless ‘malignancy’, whose baneful efflorescence aims at their damage or destruction, will, at some point, be faced with the burden of finding some way to cope with this dark knowledge.

Ex-taxi driver given six months for assault on passenger

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Taxi driving is an honourable profession and the court expects drivers to behave in a respectable manner, said a district court judge before imposing a six month sentence on a man who demanded more money from a passenger, despite setting a fixed fare, and then proceeded to viciously punch and kick him, leaving the wounded man on the side of a dark dangerous country road.

NUIG helps Abbey to put Irish theatre archives on line

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

The digital archive partnership between NUI Galway and the Abbey Theatre was unveiled in the Abbey Theatre Dublin on Monday by President Michael D Higgins.

Eighty per cent of sexual violence survivors knew their attackers

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Survivors of sexual violence and abuse knew the perpetrators of the crimes in nearly 80 per cent of cases, according to a new study, just published.

Public meeting on Children’s Referendum in Ballinasloe

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Fianna Fáil will hold a public meeting in Ballinasloe next week to discuss the upcoming Children’s Referendum.

Bondholder bailout protest to hit Galway this weekend

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

The Ballyhea-Charleville bondholder protest group will visit Galway on Saturday as part of a western tour of the country.

Elderly will be hit by reduction of home help hours

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Home help assistance will see a reduction of up to 12,000 hours a month in Galway city between now and the end of the year, according to Galway councillor Catherine Connolly.

Campaigners set up online petition to stop windfarm

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

The campaign to put a halt to proposals to built a substantial windfarm in Connemara has stepped up a gear with an online petition being launched this week.

Man gets five months for burglary spree

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

A Limerick man, with 89 previous convictions, is to serve a further five months in jail and was given another eight months suspended for committing a number of burglaries during a 36-hour spree in Galway city.

Halloween Parade

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

A Halloween parade through Shop Street takes place next Wednesday, starting outside Brown Thomas at 8.30pm and finishing in Mainguard Street.

The Roman Empire explored

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

The second in a series of history lectures at Claregalway Castle will take place on Saturday.

New clinic for inflammatory bowel disease sufferers

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

More than 1,000 men and women of all ages attended Galway University Hospitals for treatment for inflammatory bowel disease in the past five years.

Free mini makeovers at Boots

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Fancy a free mini makeover? If so pop along to the No 7 cosmetics counter at Boots in Shop Street on Thursday November 1.

Jes to host major conference on rethinking education in Ireland

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Colaiste Iognaid is 150 years at its Sea Road site this year, and as part of the celebrations, an international education conference is being held at the Connemara Coast Hotel, Furbo this weekend.

Galway Brothers of Charity welcomes new national standards

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

People with disabilities living in residential centres have the right to be safe, to receive good care and support, and to have access to services which enable them to live a fulfilling life.

‘Girls night out’ in Claregalway to raise funds for cure for rare cancer

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

A “Girls Night Out” in Claregalway next week aims to raise vital funds to find a cure for a rare form of cancer which affects a local four-year-old child.

Loughrea teenager launches cookbook to raise funds for children of Russia

Thu, Oct 25, 2012

Thirteen-years-old Alex McLoughlin is launching a children’s cookbook to raise money for The Children of Russia Fund.

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