Car theft accused gets eleven months suspended

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A 23-year-old man, with 49 previous convictions, was given an 11 month suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week for the unauthorised taking of a vehicle.

Stars come together for charity single for Lily Mae

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’ has been recorded by a host of leading Irish singers as a charity single to raise funds for a seriously ill Galway girl.

Dusty Banjos celebrate major birthday milestone

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Dusty Banjos, the trad band and music session organisers, will hold a major 10th Birthday Session on Monday October 22 in The Western Hotel, Prospect Hill, from 9.30pm.

Lisbrook House protesters demand further talks with Justice Minister

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Lisbrook House residents and their supporters have not given up the fight to halt the closure of the asylum accommodation centre with this week seeing a delegation of more than 30 people march to the offices of a Galway West TD demanding that further consultations should take place.

The delegation, many members of the Lisbrook House Residents and Supporters Group, assembled at Eyre Square on Monday and marched to the constituency office of Fine Gael deputy Brian Walsh in Bohermore. While a peaceful demonstration was held outside two residents and one of the supporters went into the office and urged Deputy Walsh to contact the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, and halt proceedings. They also demanded that before any further action is taken regarding closure plans, a meeting between Oireachtas members, other political respresentatives from Galway, a delegation from Lisbrook House, and Minister Shatter should take place so that the concerns of residents can be fully heard and alternative options could be explored.

World pain experts to address Galway meeting

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

New advances in the diagnosis and treatment of common but often debilitating conditions such as migraine will be discussed at the Irish Pain Society’s annual scientific meeting at the Radisson Hotel on Saturday.

Galway’s female entrepreneurs attend ‘Going for Growth’ National Forum

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Seventy Irish women entrepreneurs, including entrepreneurs from Galway, who run businesses with a combined turnover in excess of €75 million came together last week to attend the annual ‘Going for Growth’ National Forum in County Kildare.

Put Ó Conaire back in Eyre Square says Connolly

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

“Confining” the statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire to the Galway City Museum and abandoning the idea of a bronze state to the writer is “an insult to his memory”.

Public debate to ask if Jesus was crucified

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the central symbols of western culture and an established historical fact, but in Asia it is a contested issue and one open to historical and archaeological doubt.

For Christians, the crucifixion is central to their faith. For Islam, that Jesus did not suffer a criminals’ death on the cross is of major importance to their religion. So who is right?

Poor Clares publish a book to calm the soul

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A city based enclosed order of nuns has produced a book aimed at calming and nourishing the soul.

International plaudits for Galway based stocktaking business

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A Galway based firm has become the first stocktaking company in Ireland to achieve the internationally recognised International Organisation for Standardisation (IS0) 9001:2008 quality management system certification.

Speak Irish while you have coffee at McCambridge’s

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Galwegians keen to have a chance to speak and practice their Irish can look forward to McCambridge’s on Shop Street being added to Conradh na Gaeilge’s Is Leor Beirt scheme.

Is Leor Beirt or It Takes Two is a national network of conversation circles set up by Conradh na Gaeilge. It entails a group of people meeting in a local cafe or in their workplace restaurant to chat together in Irish on a regular basis.

Galway woman scoops top prize at Irish Blog Awards

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Claregalway woman, Móna Wise swept the boards at the first ever Blog Awards Ireland event held in the Osprey Hotel, Naas, Co Kildare on Saturday night, October 13.

Have your say at Galway heat of Europe Soapbox competition

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Oscar Wilde’s dictum that ‘Youth is wasted on the young’ is the topic for the 2012 Europe Direct Soapbox Competition and Galwegians of all ages are being sought to take part.

Researchers and industry convene for GlycoSience Event at NUI Galway

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

An estimated 150 delegates are expected to travel to NUI Galway tomorrow for the fifth annual GlycoScience Ireland meeting. Glycoscience is the study of complex sugars which cover all cells in the human body including most proteins found in the bloodstream.

Grow a moustache for charity this Movember

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a moustache - it is better for the health,” so said the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, and next month Galwaymen can grow a moustache for health reasons too.

Movember, the international charity event where men grow moustaches to raise funds for and awareness of prostrate cancer and men’s health issues, returns to next month, and Galwegians are being encouraged to get involved.

Occupy Galway accuse gardai of ‘political policing’

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Members and supporters of the former Occupy Galway movement accused gardai of “political policing” following an incident in Eyre Square earlier this week.

Taxpayers will not pay legal fees of Occupy Galway vandalism accused, says ludge

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Charges against two members of the former Occupy Galway who had been accused of vandalising Galway City Council property with anti-austerity slogans written in chalk were withdrawn by the State this week. However, there was surprise when applications were made by both men looking for taxpayers to pay.

Burglary puts elderly person in fear, court hears

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A woman and a juvenile have been charged with a burglary incident which left an elderly person in fear, the Galway District Court heard this week.

Something To Sing About for cancer survivors

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A Galway medical specialist is spearheading a global initiative aimed at aiding people’s recovery from cancer.

Dr Paul Donnellan, a consultant medical oncologist at University Hospital Galway and the Galway Clinic, is setting up a worldwide choir of cancer survivors called Something to Sing About (STSA).

Is there a point in having councillors anymore?

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

So Galway is to get 12 new councillors - a new dirty dozen - when the proposals in the Department of the Environment’s new plan, Putting People First, billed as the most significant local authority reform in Ireland since the Victorian era, are passed.

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