Intruder alarm installation training

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Hi-Tech Training will be shortly starting an intruder alarm installation course. This practical based course is designed to give participants an understanding of how to install and service intruder alarm systems.

Information session for 2011 Galway Film Centre/RTÉ Short Film Awards

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Galway Film Centre, in collaboration with RTÉ, has announced that Friday March 11 will be the deadline for this year’s Short Film Awards. Two scripts will be selected from the submissions received and the two winning entries will each receive a sum of €9,500 to make their film. In addition Galway Film Centre will provide equipment and facilities and RTÉ will screen the finished film. If you are interested contact Galway Film Centre at 091 770 748 or email info@galway filmcentre.ie for an application form plus full details of how to submit your script.

Twelve week health and wellbeing course

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

A 12-week integrated programme of health and well-being is being launched by Brighid Daly at her new centre in Renville Lodge, Oranmore.

Questions every FF candidate in Galway must answer

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

And they’re off! The 30th Dáil reached the end of its troubled life on Tuesday and the starting gun was fired on the race for the 31st Dáil. The various candidates will be calling to your door in the coming weeks and you will be bombarded with literature, promises, and pledges.

Could Galway return three female TDs

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

By the beginning of March, when the dust has settled on what promises to be a momentous general election, County Galway will have at least one female TD.

Six Nations at the Spanish Arch Bar

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The Six Nations has arrived again and for the next six weeks The Spanish Arch on Quay Street are looking forward to the great season.

Public lecture on landlords in Ireland

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Landlord’ is a word with grim associations in Ireland and both the native Irish and British politicians in the 19th century viewed them as a major problem.

Today is deadline for postal vote applications

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Today is deadline for the postal vote. It is open to those whose occupations prevent them from voting at their local polling station on election day or because of a physical illness or disability.

Walk in South Africa for Rehab

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The Rehab Group which provides training, support, education and employment opportunities for people with disabilities and special needs is seeking volunteers for a sponsored fundraising walk/trek in South Africa in November.

South Africa’s stunning natural panoramas and vibrant cultures make the country appealing to almost every taste. The Rehab walk offers a challenge which suits all fitness levels

FG ‘Five Point Plan’ will get Ireland working again says Naughton

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Fine Gael’s ‘Five Point Plan’ for Ireland, will get the country “back on track” and “working again” according to the party’s Galway West candidate, councillor Hildegarde Naughton.

Ó Brolcháin vows to run positive campaign despite negative times

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Political pundits may be predicting extinction for the Green Party after the next election, but the Green’s Galway West candidate Niall Ó Brolcháin is determined to be optimistic.

FHE feels her time has come

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Fidelma Healy Eames is glad that she wasn’t elected a TD in 2002.

Twelve hundred patients and families availed of cancer support centre services last year

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Some 1,200 patients and their families availed of the services offered by a city based cancer support centre more than 5,500 times in the past year.

The Cancer Care West facility, which is based at 72 Seamus Quirke Road (opposite Westside Shopping Centre), is open on a drop-in and appointment basis to people with cancer and their families from all over the west.

French rugby legend Raphaël Ibañez is coming to Galway

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

French rugby legend Raphaël Ibañez is coming to Galway next week to take part in the Guinness Area 22 Supporters event in Massimo bar on William Street.

Declan Ganley to launch new book in Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Declan Ganley, the businessman, political campaigner, and founder of Libertas, will be in Galway this evening to launch a new novel based on themes of emigration.

Ó Clochartaigh calls for education cuts to be reversed

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

All candidates in the General Election must pledge to reverse the cuts to the DEIS Rural Co-ordinators if elected to government.

Connaughton announces plan to allow for turf cutting

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Turf cutting for domestic purposes must be allowed continue for 2011 so more people are not “caught up in a daft decision” where people are prohibited from cutting their own supply of turf.

Galway author’s novel goes online in London paper

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The new novel by Galway based author Rab Swannock Fulton, is to be serialised in The Independent newspaper in Britain.

Calls to local St Vincent de Paul rose by fifty per cent in January

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

The Galway branch of the Saint de Paul Society has reported an estimated 50 per cent increase in the number of people contacting it for help this January compared with last year.

Schools battle for credit union quiz title

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Local Primary Schools have been invited to participate in the first stage of the nationwide 2011 Credit Union Schools’ Quiz competition organised by the naomh Padraig Credit Union in St Nicholas Parochial School tomorrow Friday February 4 at 2.30pm.

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