There is no business like the ocean liner business

Thu, May 24, 2012

Galway shops, restaurants, and services could be major beneficiaries from the world popular cruise liner business once the new city port is up and running. Planning permission for phase one of the development is being submitted tomorrow.

Survivors call for former industrial school to become a healing centre

Thu, May 24, 2012

Survivors of St Anne’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys at Lenaboy Castle in Taylor’s Hill are calling for it to be transformed into a memorial healing centre for all survivors of abuse in religious institutions.

Parish collection in Renmore

Thu, May 24, 2012

Renmore will hold its annual church gate collection this weekend at both the Renmore and the Garrisson churches.

Ice cream fun day

Thu, May 24, 2012

An HB ice-cream fun day will be held on Saturday in Bridit's Gardens, Rosscahill in aid of Down Syndrome Ireland.

Tourism boost for Connemara with €1.8m investment in Wild Atlantic Way

Thu, May 24, 2012

Connemara is set for a major tourism boost with the announcement that €1.8m is to pumped into a new initiative for the region.

Repeat offender jailed

Thu, May 24, 2012

A 40-year-old man, with a history of breaching barring orders, is to serve 10 months in jail after being brought before Galway District Court on two further counts of contravening a barring order with a district court judge warning that “the joke is over”.

Judge Mary Fahy warned that repeat breaches of barring orders and the waste of Garda time would not be tolerated by the court and that Francis Barrett of 1 St Nicholas Park, Doughiska, had used up his last chance.

Drop in abseentism rates at UHG and Merlin Park hospitals

Thu, May 24, 2012

Abseentism rates at Galway University hospitals have dropped significantly in the past four months.

Further remand for €12,000 drug dealing accused

Thu, May 24, 2012

A 25-year-old man charged with dealing drugs valued at approximately €12,000 has been further remanded on continuing bail.

New technology boosts success at local fertility clinic

Thu, May 24, 2012

A Galway fertility clinic is the first in the country to invest in new technology which boasts impressive results - pregnancy rates have increased by 20 per cent.

Shantalla family fun day for Cystic Fibrosis

Thu, May 24, 2012

A special charity event for all the family takes place at the Shantalla Park (Sliding Rock) on Saturday.

Organised by Scholars Walk, the group of businesses across from Galway University Hospital, in association with the Shantalla Residents Association, the event will feature a five-a-side soccer and a family fun day in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Galway Hospital Project

Nine months for tresspass and cheek

Thu, May 24, 2012

A “cheeky” Ballybane man with 91 previous convictions was sentenced to nine months at Galway District Court this week for trespass and public order offences including one occasion when he jumped out in front of plain-clothed gardai shouting obscenities.

NUIG to offer scholarship in memory of late Eamonn Deacy

Thu, May 24, 2012

The memory of the late Eamonn ‘Chick’ Deacy is to be kept alive with a new full soccer scholarship at NUI Galway. The first recipient will be named in time for the 2012/13 academic year, which begins in September.

Robbery accused duo refused bail

Thu, May 24, 2012

by Martina Nee
Two men accused of attempting to rob a person have been refused bail and further remanded in custody.

Jes hosts Who wants to be a Thousandaire fundraiser tonight

Thu, May 24, 2012

Coláiste Iognáid is bringing the hugely popular Who wants to be a Thousandaire show to The Ardilaun hotel this evening (Thursday) at 8pm.

Get ready for Sky Road Challenge

Thu, May 24, 2012

Clifden is hosting its annual Sky Road 10k Challenge on Sunday June 3.

Through the Glass Darkly

Thu, May 24, 2012

It must be more than 30 years ago since I first discovered one of the great portals opening on to the past, located right here in Galway, just behind Lynch’s Castle on Upper Abbeygate Street. Old Galwegians of a ‘bookish’ nature will know to what I refer: the overflow storage space of Kenny’s Bookshop.

Fifteen months for drunken dangerous high speed chase in stolen car

Thu, May 24, 2012

A 24-year-old Ballybane man who led gardai on a high speed chase in a stolen car while drink driving and disqualified, before travelling the wrong way on a roundabout and crashing, has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and disqualified from driving for 10 years.

Leading SF TD to speak in Galway on the Treaty

Thu, May 24, 2012

Pearse Doherty, one of the leading Sinn Féin TDs, will be in Galway on Monday to address a public meeting on the Fiscal Compact Treaty.

Trade union to host Fiscal Compact Treaty debate tonight

Thu, May 24, 2012

The Galway Council of Trade Unions will host a public debate on the Fiscal Compact Treaty tonight at 9pm in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road.

Creighton to speak on treaty in Oranmore

Thu, May 24, 2012

The Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton will address a public meeting on the Fiscal Compact Treaty in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Monday at 8.30pm.

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