Thank-you to our Galway taxi drivers
Thu, May 20, 2010
Cab drivers across the city recently descended upon the five-star g Hotel to collect their lunch ‘g’oodie bags as the hotel hosted the city’s inaugural Taxi Appreciation Day.
Read more ...A taste of summer with an Ardilaun barbecue
Thu, May 20, 2010
The Ardilaun has just launched its summer menus for sizzling barbecues.
Read more ...‘Make a Difference’ first eyecare awards
Thu, May 20, 2010
THE inaugural VISPA Vision Week with Specsavers takes place this week with special new awards for those who make a difference to people with impaired vision the recognition they deserve.
Read more ...Postal workers reunion
Thu, May 20, 2010
Former employees and their partners of Posts and Telegraphs (An Post & Eircom) Galway are invited to a Reunion BBQ at the Salthill Hotel Salthill Galway at 7pm Friday June 11.
Read more ...GTI host student art and design exhibition
Thu, May 20, 2010
Galway Technical Institute will this evening host the much anticipated student art and design exhibition which will commence at 7pm.
Read more ...Fashion show in aid of international relief
Thu, May 20, 2010
A charity fashion show in aid of Samaritans Purse will be hosted next Wednesday (May 26) at Coyotes on Forster Street.
Read more ...Rás heads west with Oughterard stopover
Thu, May 20, 2010
Ireland’s biggest cycling race, the FBD Insurance Rás, will visit Galway next week (Tuesday and Wednesday) on is third and fourth stages.
Read more ...‘Give Ballybane a break’ from future development
Thu, May 20, 2010
It would be “unsustainable and unfair” to continue promoting residential development in Ballybane when the area’s population is growing faster than any other area of the city.
Read more ...Green job opportunities for Galway
Thu, May 20, 2010
An innovative green energy jobs conference and open day, ‘Greener Homes and Business Generating Green Jobs,’will be held at the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Friday May 28.
Fine Gael Spokesperson for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Simon Coveney will be the keynote speaker and he will address the audience on the subject of ‘A New Energy Future - Transforming Ireland.’
Read more ...Zambian teenagers helped by Alan Kerins Projects visit Galway
Thu, May 20, 2010
Four Zambian students, who have been helped by Alan Kerins Projects paid a visit to Galway recently and attended a special evening of friendship hosted by the voluntary organisation on Friday last in the Clybaun Hotel.
Read more ...Full dog grooming at Bubbles and Barks
Thu, May 20, 2010
Bubbles and Barks in Barna offers a full dog grooming service.
Read more ...December start to stop Claddagh Basin sewage
Thu, May 20, 2010
By the end of this year, raw sewage should no longer be flowing into the canal and Claddagh Basin, as the Galway City Council is due to undertake works in the area in December.
Read more ...Fahey seeks urgent improvement works for Ballymoneen Road
Thu, May 20, 2010
Urgent improvement works are needed at the stretch of the Ballymoneen Road adjacent to the Western Distributor Road as it “poses a serious threat” to the safety of local residents.
Read more ...Pass the giant parcel in Eyre Square next week
Thu, May 20, 2010
If you enjoyed the game Pass The Parcel when you were a child and have not played it since, you will have a chance to play it again in Eyre Square next Wednesday at 4pm.
Read more ...Second novel from Galway author John Rodgers
Thu, May 20, 2010
Egg Shells and Broken Dreams, the new novel by Galway born author John Rodgers, chronicles the lives of people in rural Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s.
Read more ...Fisherman charged with stabbing warned to stop ‘codding the court’
Thu, May 20, 2010
A Connemara fisherman charged with stabbing a man during a drunken scuffle over two years ago was warned by a circuit court judge to stop “codding the court” and to take his alcohol difficulties seriously in order to avoid a jail sentence.
Read more ...A little bit of Havana in Galway’s Latin Quarter
Thu, May 20, 2010
Galway's Little Havana Festival is a new, free and fun-filled event taking place in the city’s Latin Quarter from June 4 to 6.
Read more ...Some divine sounds for the Galway Arts Festival
Thu, May 20, 2010
Galway audiences will be hopping on the ‘National Express’ or taking a ride on ‘My Lovely Horse’, in order to enjoy a game of cricket and a dance at the indie disco, in the company of The Divine Comedy in Galway this summer.
The Divine Comedy (aka Co Fermanagh vocalist and songwriter Neil Hannon) is coming to play the Galway Arts Festival in July, as are Rodrigo Y Gabriela, and Brad Mehldau, for a series of concerts that promise sounds that will be divine, Latin, and jazz.
Read more ...Crowe calls on Government to address job losses in Galway
Thu, May 20, 2010
The loss of 85 jobs in Boston Scientific is “a blow to the city”, the Government “must do all it can” to give Galway a “pick up and to stimulate job creation in the city”.
Read more ...Frightened parents deplore ‘savage’ cuts to Brothers of Charity services
Thu, May 20, 2010
“Savage” cuts planned for the Brothers of Charity’s budget for 2010 will devastate services and cause “untold grief” to service users and their families, a concerned parent warned this week.
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