Through the glass darkly

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

One of the most delightful consequences of the great ash plume exploding over Iceland, and the subsequent cancellation of air transport, has been the temporary clearance of the skies. Looking up, during the day and at night, we can experience something unknown to most people since the invention of the airplane – the heavens as they were seen before man began to colonise them.

People stranded abroad should know their rights

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

With uncertainty continuing about travel arrangements following the volcanic eruption in Iceland, it is important that people who are stranded abroad realise their rights.

City must get behind Connacht for sake of the team and local economy

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

The city should be decked in Connacht flags and the Connacht Rugby colours of green and white, with the public, city businesses, and the Galway City Council doing all they can to support the team in the run up to their European cup match against Toulon.

NUI Galway rallies support for Jordan

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

In a unique charitable event laptop computers, donated by Galway businesses and educational institutions, will be carried overland from Germany to the Middle East in a rally car driven by NUI Galway postgraduate researcher Armin Haller before being donated to a school in Jordan.

Galway Fianna Fáil members gather for city conference

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

Fianna Fáil members from throughout Co Galway will be gathering in the Clayton Hotel this Saturday for the Galway East/Galway West Fianna Fáil Conference.

Galway’s world silver medallist races for Cancer Care West

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

Loughrea race walker Olive Loughnane has joined forces with Cancer Care West to participate in the Dublin Women’s Mini Marathon along with the 40,000 other women set to partake in the event.

Decision to expand UHG manager role is ‘ludicrous’, says HSE forum chair

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

“Ludicrous” is how the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described the decision to expand the role of general manager of Galway University Hospital’s to include responsibility for Portiuncula and Roscommon hospitals.

Cllr Padraig Conneely says this controversial move, which is vehemently opposed by Ballinasloe people who fear their hospital will be downgraded in the process, will mean that UHG will not have a dedicated manager.

Art auction in aid of Claregalway Educate Together school

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Leading Galway and national artists such as Kenneth Webb, Aideen Barry, and John Behan are taking part in this year’s Claregalway Educate Together NS art auction.

Sudden death of Welsh basketball star in city hotel not suspicious, say gardai

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

The sudden and tragic death of a Welsh basketball star at a city centre hotel is not being treated as suspicious, Galway gardai have confirmed.

Dún Aonghusa and the Burren nominated for UNESCO World Heritage List

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Dun Aonghusa and the Burren are among seven sites proposed by the Government for nomination as potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

NUI senator criticises medical council for punishing fertility doctor

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

The Irish Medical Council’s Fitness to Practice Committee has been accused of displaying intolerance towards freedom of conscience in its attempt to punish a Galway based fertility doctor who refused to treat an unmarried couple.

Gardai not hunting for gorse fire arsonist after Roundstone blazes

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Gardai in Galway have dismissed reports that they are hunting for an arsonist suspected of deliberately setting fire to hundreds of acres of gorse in Connemara over the past few days.

In response to reports in a national paper, a spokesperson for Galway Garda station confirmed that there had been gorse fires over vast areas of mountainside near Roundstone in Connemara but that no complaint has been made and that gardai have not launched an official investigation into the matter.

Fund-raising car wash in aid of Galway RNLI Lifeboat

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Galway city-based car wash company Crystal Clean will hold a day long fundraiser in aid of the Galway RNLI Lifeboat on Saturday at its two city venues – the Galway Shopping Centre on the Headford Road and the Woodquay Car Wash centre.

Crowe welcomes new rickshaw regulation for city centre

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

The Galway City Council are to introduce bye-laws for the operation of rickshaws and any other non-motorised passenger transport in Galway city.

Advertiser celebrates forty years

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Galway Advertiser founder and chairman Ronnie O'Gorman cuts the ceremonial birthday cake baked by Griffins Bakery to mark the newspaper's fourtieth birthday today. He is surrounded by the newspaper's staff. The newspaper first appeared forty years ago this morning (Thursday). Photo: Mike Shaughnessy.

Lucia seeks Irish singers for six-month US tour

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Singers Of United Lands, an organisation based in Michigan, USA, is seeking Irish singers for a six-month tour of the USA and they have asked Lucia Evans to find them.

Pádraig O’Céidigh lends support to Fahey’s bypass campaign

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Aer Arann’s Pádraig O’Céidigh and Treasure Chest owner Mary Bennett will feature in video supporting Frank Fahey’s Galway Bypass campaign.

Information sought on missing man

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

The family of a Dublin man who went missing in Galway last month have appealed to Galway people who may have seen him to contact the gardaí.

Nineteen thousand local public patients benefited from National Treatment Purchase Fund

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

More than 19,000 of Galway’s longest waiting public patients have benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), a Government initiative designed to cut hospital waiting lists by offering public patients treatment in private hospitals.

Try the Gaeltacht day course

Thu, Apr 15, 2010

Gaelnua, which runs Gaeltacht summer day courses in Connemara, has announced it will be making another bus available, following demand from the public.

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