Marc Roberts wins country music award

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Marc Roberts, the popular Galway based singer, songwriter, and broadcaster, won solo artist of the year at the recent Sunday World Country Music Awards in Mullingar.

Have an eight-some at Cava

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

To celebrate the annual Seville Tapas Fair in February, Cava Spanish Restaurant and Tapas Bar in Galway has announced its exciting 2011 Tapas Fiesta Menu.

This popular excuse for a get together offers groups of eight or more the chance to taste and to share various tapas from different regions throughout Spain including eight exciting meat, fish and vegetable dishes. The menu is only available for the month of February.

More than three hundred delegates attend successful NUIG Energy Night

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

More than 300 delegates from the academic community, local and national industry, those at the forefront of policy-making, and the general public attended and actively participated in Energy Night 2011 which was held at NUI Galway last week.

I gcuimhne far an leaid rua

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Seoladh The Blue-Eyed Boy, In Memory of an Leaid Rua an tseachtain seo caite sa Scoil Chuimsitheach an Cheathrú Rua. Seo leabhar a bhí curtha le chéile mar thionscadal idirbhliana sa rang Béarla i gcuimhne ar scoláire, Micheál Rua Seoighe, a maraíodh go tubaisteach i mí na Samhna 2009. Ba é Seán Mac Donncha, leasphríomhoide na scoile, a sheol an leabhar agus ba í Fiona de Paor, an múinteoir Bhéarla, a bhí i gceannas ar an rang idirbhliana.

Litir chuig Enda

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Tá litir, sínithe ag ionadaithe eagraíochtaí oideachais, ceardchumainn mhúinteoirí, eagrais Ghaeilge, aontais mac léinn, coláistí samhraidh, grúpaí mná tí, eagraíochtaí óige, agus eagraíochtaí Gaeltachta, seolta chuig Enda Kenny, ceannaire Fhine Gael, ag éileamh air polasaí an pháirtí, stádas na Gaeilge don ardteist a ísliú tríd an ábhar a dhéanamh roghnach, a chur ar leataobh agus seasamh taobh thiar di mar chroí-ábhar don ardteist a dhéanfaidh gach mac léinn staidéar uirthi.

Man given last chance to behave or face jail

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A 36-year-old man, with alcohol and agression problems, has been given a final warning to obey his conditions of probation and to behave himself or face jail next time.

Hunt Report ‘a road map for Australia’ says Ó Clochartaigh

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The new National Strategy for Higher Education, co-ordinated by Dr Colin Hunt, is not a vision for the future but a ‘road map to Australia’ for the nation’s youth.

Grealish urges Government to include nurses in proposed new HSE exit scheme

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A local TD is calling on the Government to include frontline nursing staff in a proposed new voluntary redundancy package for employees in the wider public service.

TG4 to screen new Galway-based drama series

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Galway actor Diarmuid de Faoite and singer/actress Maria Doyle Kennedy will star in Corp + Anam, a gritty new drama series starring which begins on Wednesday February 16 at 9.30pm on TG4.

New radio documentary looks at the local impact of climate change

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Rain, storms, droughts, and you guessed it, even more cold spells could become the norm as climate change increasingly threatens to pose serious challenges for Galway city, that’s according to leading scientist and NUI Galway lecturer Dr Kieran Hickey who was featured in a new radio documentary aired this week.

‘All Go’ for 2011 Safety Direct Galway International Rally

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The Safety Direct Galway International Rally 2011 takes place this weekend from Friday February 4, to Sunday February 6, with a number of events taking place to mark its 40th anniversary.

Through the glass darkly

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The late Hubert Butler once wrote a delightful essay called Influenza on Aran in which he examined the evidence for the early Irish saints. His title is explained in the first few sentences: “When I arrived in Aran by the Naomh Eanna at Kilronan I was sneezing and, by the time I had raced to St Enda’s Church at Killeany and seen the stone on which he had floated in from Connemara, I was feverish and coughing. I spent the rest of my time in bed reading the only two books on Aran and its saints that I could find, a big one by Mr O Siochain [Aran: Islands of Legend] and a small one by Father Scantlebury [Saints and Shrines of Aran Mor]”.

Later, during the week, a learned friend came to see him, and Butler, excited by the two books, attempted to communicate some of his enthusiasm to his visitor, “but I failed miserably”. The reason for his failure, Butler tells us, lay in the fact that the study of the Aran saints – and by extension the majority of the saints of the early Irish church – had been taken over by “textual criticism and philology and scientific excavations”, which he regretted as the Medusa-gaze of dry as dust.

New triathlon club for Connemara

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Galway boasts a new triathlon club, TríSpórt, which is also a first for the Connemara Gaeltacht.

Laptop thief unlawfully at large because of prison fracas, court hears

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A 26-year-old laptop thief, who was had been unlawfully at large for six months, has claimed that he was fearful of returning into custody because of a prison fracas between Irish and Eastern European inmates.

Lord works in mysterious waves — Galway gets a Christian radio station

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Ireland’s first quasi-national Christian radio station launched last week when World Champion Boxer, Katie Taylor released white doves to mark the official launch of Spirit Radio onto the Irish airwaves.

Friedrich Engels and his forgotten journey to County Galway

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Friedrich Engels is best known as the author of The Conditions Of The Working Class in England and as the co-author, along with Karl Marx, of The Communist Manifesto, but one of his least well known writings is about Galway, describing the county and its people in the aftermath of The Famine.

City doctor on mercy mission to Chad

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A doctor from Rahoon Road in the city is heading to Chad in central Africa to set up an HIV/Aids project.

City businessman and election candidate slams HSE West €7m spend on legal fees

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A general election candidate and a founding member of Hope4Disability, a local disability action group, has slammed what he terms the “obscene” amount of more than €7 million spent by the HSE West on legal fees for barristers and solicitors last year.

Man to face trial for false imprisonment of woman

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A 28-year-old man accused of allegedly tresspassing in a building and falsely imprisoning a woman has been sent forward for trial.

NRA €4.3 million funding to make ‘real difference’ says Galway Tranportation Unit head

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The recent NRA funding of €4.3 million is a big boost and will help make a “real difference” in the city council’s work to provide high standard road infrastructure and improve safety for cyclists and pedestrians, according to Joe Tansey, head of the Galway Transportation Unit.

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