Inis Oírr wins top award
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Picturesque Inis Oírr scooped one of the top awards at 2010 All-Island Pride of Place competition with The Latin Quarter in Galway city and Letterfrack also doing well by taking runner up awards.
Read more ...Ironman Galway information evening
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
As Galway prepares to host one of the most prestigious races on the international triathlon calendar next September, the Galway Triathlon Club will host an information evening on Tuesday November 23 at 7.30 in the Salthill Hotel.
Read more ...Special fares to shop in Galway this Christmas
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Special return train fares to shop in Galway this Christmas have been unveiled by Iarnród Éireann.
Read more ...Nursing union calls for crisis summit on health
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
A leading local nursing union official is calling for a crisis summit on the health services to be convened immediately.
Read more ...Breffmeister to be MC at Colga Ball
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Star of The Apprentice and Celebrity Bainisteoir Breffni Morgan is to be the guest MC for the forthcoming Colga FC Ball to be held in the Clayton Hotel on Saturday November 27.
Read more ...Connacht rugby players strike a pose for COPE
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Up-close and personal shots of Connacht Rugby stars can be seen in a new calendar created to raise money in the fight against homelessness.
Read more ...Galway bands get rocking for Movember
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Galway bands Lost Chord and Go Panda Go are providing the soundtrack to Movember, the moustache growing charity, with their fundraising single ‘I Wanna To Be Tom Selleck’.
Read more ...No twinning likely with Philippines ‘oyster city’
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Despite having major oyster festivals in common, it is unlikely that any twinning arrangement between Galway and Roxas City in the Philippines will take place.
A story appeared in the Philippino media and blogs this week, saying that the Philippino Ambassador to Ireland Ariel Y Abadilla had approached the Galway City Council with a view towards the twinning arrangement.
Read more ...Calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to be invited to Galway
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Calls have been made for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, to be invited to Galway to receive the Freedom of the City, which was awarded to her in 2005.
Read more ...Craughwell nursing home wins national care award
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
A Co Galway nursing home was recently chosen as the outright winner of a national care award at the Nursing Homes Ireland annual awards ceremony.
President Mary McAleese presented the award, sponsored by Bank of Ireland, to the Village Nursing Care Centre in Craughwell at a reception in Dublin recently.
Read more ...Tourism figures show need for ‘urgent action’, says Michael D
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
The decline in the number of tourists to Ireland, as revealed by the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office, shows there is an “urgent need for action”.
Read more ...Name a puppy for Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
The Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind (IGDB) has joined forces with Specsavers the opticians to find Galway’s most ‘pup’ular names beginning with the letter ‘S’ to name a six-week-old guide dog litter.
Read more ...Gardai back poker challenge for charity
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
A group of 20 Galway gardaí are joining the public in a ‘poker run challenge by car’ on Sunday in aid of UNICEF.
Read more ...McCambridge’s food and wine fair to raise €15,000 for local organisations
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
McCambridge’s seventh annual food and wine fair, which takes place on Thursday next, aims to raise €15,000 for a number of local organisations.
Read more ...Grant for Ballinasloe area flood relief
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
A grant of €900,000 has been allocated for additional flood relief works in the Derrymullen and Ashfield areas of Ballinasloe.
Read more ...Abusive teen pokes garda in chest to get Buckfast back, court hears
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
A young man who was so determined to get a bottle of Buckfast back that he poked a garda aggressively in the chest has been given the benefit of the Probation Act.
Read more ...The House Hotel voted best in New York Times
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Galway’s House Hotel as been named as one of the best places to sleep by The New York Times newspaper, in a recent travel column by journalist Matt Gross.
Read more ...Joint Policing Committee to meet next week
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
The Galway City Joint Policing Committee will hold its next meeting in the Ballybane Community Resource Centre on Monday at 10am.
Read more ...Musgrave invests in Galway site
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Musgrave in Galway has undergone a transformation with a €1 million investment in its MarketPlace cash and carry outlet in Galway.
Read more ...New motorway signs for Oranmore to be erected
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
New signage on the M6 Dublin to Galway road, indicating the turn off to Oranmore, as well as signs for B&Bs, shopping, services, and tourist activities in the area are to be erected.
The signs will be located before junction 19 on the M6. The signs are currently being designed and will be erected in the coming weeks.
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