Hillwalkers to hold open meeting

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Cumann Siúl Cois Coiribe Hillwalking Club, based in Galway city, will hold an open meeting in the Menlo Park Hotel this evening (Thursday). The meeting will begin at 8.30pm and new members are welcome to attend.

O’Flaherty condemns students who still park in estates close to the GMIT

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Some students from the GMIT are continuing to park in estates close to the college, despite the extra car-parking spaces available in the Galwegians Sports Grounds, which is funded by the GMIT.

Father hurls abuse at garda over child car seat offence

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A father who, when pulled for not having his young child in a proper car seat flew off the handle and hurled insulting abuse at a garda, was sentenced to a further one month in jail and warned to mend his ways.

Galway to follow Dublin and get directly elected mayors says Ó Brolcháin

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Galway, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, and Kilkenny, are likely to follow Dublin and get a directly elected Mayor according to Green senator and former mayor of Galway Niall Ó Brolcháin.

New balls please

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Time and time again we are fed the line that Anglo was included in the bank guarantee because it was of systemic importance to the Irish economy. When questioned not one person from Government was able to explain why precisely Anglo is of systemic importance. It is simply a mantra put forward by those who do not understand the issue and who are seriously out of their depth.

The truth is that our Government has ceded its authority to Brussels and Germany. Brian Lenihan would have had no choice but to discuss the plans to guarantee the banks with Angela Merkel on that fateful September night in 2008. A guarantee that was most appropriate for Ireland would not have been one that that was in Germanys best interests. She had to take action.

McNelis appointed chair of Labour Councillors Association

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Councillor Niall McNelis will have a significant role to play in Labour’s general and presidential election campaigns with his appointment as chair of the Labour Councillors Association.

Learn how to parent teenagers

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A one day workshop on the skills needed by parents to negotiate the teen years will take place at the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Arus de Brun, Newtownsmith on Saturday November 13 from 10m to 4pm.

Topics will include how to communicate effectively with your teen, the importance of setting boundaries, peer pressure and encouragement. This will be an interactive and skills based workshop.

Little ghouls to take part in Monivea playground opening

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The official opening of the new playground in Monivea is to take place on Saturday October 30 with local children and young people in the community taking part in an open air spectacle to help mark the occasion.

New life in Galway’s oldest restaurant

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Maxwell’s Restaurant on the corner of Eglinton Street and Williamsgate Street is back in business. Having lain idle for close on three years Galway’s oldest restaurant reopened for business during the summer. Maxwell’s forms part of the old Colonial Buildings which were built by Austin Semple in 1866. In its early days it was a whiskey and wine Import business as well as a high class grocery run by an F McNamara and Co. In 1900 it was bought by an Austin Green who married a Miss Maxwell from Longford and Maxwell McNamara & Co came into being.

Halloween gig for Irish Chamber Choir of Paris

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

THE IRISH Chamber Choir of Paris pla
y St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday October 30 at 8pm.

y St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday October 30 at 8pm.

A gala music night to celebrate thirty years of excellence

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

An extraordinary night of music was enjoyed by a packed Town Hall Theatre on Saturday evening. Music for Galway, that simple title that conveys so much, celebrate 30 years of existence during which it placed Galway high on the map of venues for many of Europe’s leading musicians, performers and choirs. It has initiated not only a loyal following for its exemplary Autumn and Winter programmes throughout the years, but enabled the talented Con Tempo Quartet to reside here as its ensemble in residence. This popular quartet has now merged into a music residency which delivers performances, education and community programmes to schools, and groups throughout the city and county. Music for Galway is one of the great cultural attractions of our city, which gives us the edge over all other centres, and a quality of life envied by many.

Music for Galway - thirty years a growing

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

It was inspired by a farcical concert, it got up and running thanks to a whip round in a living room, and was sustained by much perspiration from its members during economically depressed times.

Fianna Fáil - about as legitimate as British rule in Ireland

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Thursday September 30 2010 – dubbed ‘Black Thursday’ by the opposition parties – may go down as the seminal point in the economic tsunami of these past two years.

Employment supports day at Galway Museum

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Galway Museum will be the venue for the third annual Employment Supports Day today (Thursday) from10am to 3.30pm.

Obair, the Local Employment Service of Galway City Partnership in conjunction with the Social Inclusion Group of Galway City Development Board, is hosting the event.

Funding boost for recycling facilities in Galway

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Recycling facilities in Galway city and county are to receive a major boost with the announcement of funding from the Government.

Sums it all up

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

My head was all a spin last week with numbers, NAMA numbers, all 50 billion of them. Don’t get me started. I don’t have the energy for a rant. There is no leadership. There is no accountability. There is no empathy. How could there be, from politicians living in a bubble? Hell will freeze over before any of them will raise their hand and say ‘sorry, we got it all wrong’. Told ya not to get me started. I’m in a tizzy this week with more numbers. My head feels like a snow globe, when I lie down all the digits float into the space surrounding my would be brain. It’s numeracy here, not maths, not even sums as it was in my day. It was easy then, plus, minus, equals, divide by, carry one over and off ya go. Here, in primary school, they do things differently and all I’m hearing between sobs and frustrated pulling of hair is ‘that’s not the way Miss used to do it in Ireland’. Now The Middle has decided she doesn’t like sums anymore even though she’s a dinger at them. She sets herself high standards. I know it will click. I will have to dig deep for the patience and tenacity required. The mathematical language is dissimilar. There’s talk of chunking and arrays and woe betide ya if you mention ‘carry over’. We are not to teach our children maths the way we were taught, teacher told us at a ‘Multiplication for Mums and Dads’ evening. Sure what else would you be doing of a Tuesday night. The response in our day, at the kitchen table doing homework, (while the dreaded stew with the sneaky parsnips boiled on the range) to a cry for assistance with maths was ‘I don’t know anything about equations, ask your brother’. And the rows continue over the lack of decent pencils and no toppers.

Museum hosts Community Outreach Intercultural Celebration

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Children from several schools gathered at Galway City Museum on Tuesday for a fun day of story-telling, poetry, films, and music.

Enjoy some pampering and raise money for Galway Simon

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Fancy being pampered and raising money for a good cause? If so, go along to the Pampering Night in aid of Galway Simon at the Radisson Blu Hotel (tomorrow) Friday at 7pm.

Thirty west of Ireland beauty and health companies will be on hand during the evening offering a host of free treatments, including mini facials, massages, manicures, hair styling and makeovers as well as giving away free samples.

Eyre Square’s Prestige salon celebrates second birthday

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Prestige Salon, Eyre Square, recently celebrated two years in business, and despite the recession is going from strength to strength with every passing month. With such a great location (above Matt O' Flaherty's Chemist, next door to Supermacs) and offering a wide range of services at very competitive prices in hair, beauty and tanning it's no great surprise that Prestige has become so popular so fast.

Cuddy calls for consultation before final decision on waste water treatment plant

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Locating a waste water treatment plant near heavily populated areas in Glenascaul, Oranmore, and Gurran makes no sense and the idea must be re-examined.

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