Quilts, art, and workshops in Galway City Museum

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

The Galway City Museum is hosting a quilting exhibition from the North of Ireland, artwork by Cecil Maguire, and workshops for younger visitors keen to keep busy during the mid-term break.

Ó Brolcháin welcomes new measures for Galway Warmer Homes Scheme

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

New measures have been put in place to make it easier for Galway residents to access the Warmer Homes Scheme according to Galway senator Niall Ó Brolcháin.

Galway Abooo Festival returns for Halloween

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Halloween is coming and to celebrate all things spooky, ghoulish, and ghostly, the Galway Abooo Halloween Festival returns from Friday October 29 to Sunday 31.

Revolutionary acne peels now available at Therapie

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Acne is an inflammatory skin condition, which can be caused by a number of factors including stress and hormones, that evolves around hair follicles. Acne can affect all age groups.

Café 8 to host World Vegan Day

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

On Monday November 1 Café 8 at the Galway City Museum will host World Vegan Day with a range of vegan food on offer as well as films and music from 8pm to 10.30pm.

This day is to raise awareness that people do not have to eat meat every day in order to have a nutritious and varied diet. It will also highlight the importance of ethical and sustainable farming methods.

Missing springer spaniel

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

A springer spaniel by the name of Lilly has been missing from the Clarenbridge area since Thursday October 7 and its owners are appealing to the public for help.

Galway launch for new book on Ireland’s turbulent weather

Thu, Oct 21, 2010

Ireland’s turbulent weather from summer 2009 to summer 2010, which saw floods, torrential rain, and severe cold, is examined in a new book to be launched in Galway this evening.

Deluge, Ireland’s weather disasters, 2009–2010 by Dr Kieran Hickey, and published by Four Courts Press, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6pm.

Fianna Fáil fear losing Galway seats if Cowen remains leader

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

For the moment Brian Cowen is safe in his position as Taoiseach, but let no one be fooled, he is a dead man walking. He says he is not “on probation” but the only one who believes that is himself.

Let’s get Taoiseach’d

Thu, Sep 23, 2010

There are innumerable words for having had too much to drink, such as hammered, sloshed, wasted, and blotto. Now to this lexicon of debauchery we can add ‘Taoiseach’d’.

Yes, it’s official. The title of the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland is now a slang term for going out, having a feed of drink, staying up ‘till the wee hours, and waking up the next morning with a serious head on you.

A vote for FF is a vote for Cowen

Thu, Sep 16, 2010

Brian Cowen sounded as rough as a bear’s arse on Morning Ireland following his all night revelling in The Ardilaun during this week’s Fianna Fáil think-in in Galway.

Fine Gael to choose its local candidates before Christmas

Thu, Sep 16, 2010

The Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin told The Last Word on Today FM on Monday that Fianna Fáil is not preparing for an election. However Fine Gael is.

Fine Gael is preparing for the next general election which is officially due to take place in 2012, but could come just as easily any time over the next 12 months. As a result FG in Galway will hold its Galway West election selection convention before Christmas.

The new Fianna Fáil in Galway

Thu, Jun 24, 2010

A recently constructed report on the state of the Fianna Fáil organisation in urban areas throughout Ireland told party members something many already knew - cumann are largely inactive or non-existent in cities and large towns.

Labour to run two in Galway West

Thu, Jun 24, 2010

If Michael D Higgins runs in the next General Election he will do so with a running mate as Labour look set to run two candidates in Galway West.

Enda Kenny - man of steel?

Thu, Jun 17, 2010

“Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power,” said Malcolm X and his words are apt to describe what is happening in Fine Gael at the moment.

Will Enda Kenny have enough power on his side to force back Richard Bruton and his allies, or will the momentum be with ‘the pretender’ and force the Mayoman off his perch?

Political football - politics and the World Cup

Thu, Jun 17, 2010

The beautiful game and the world’s second oldest profession have often collided, colluded, and clashed on the big stage of the World Cup, so as the current tournament continues in South Africa, Talking Politics takes a politically slanted look at the competition’s history.

Uruguay 1930: Uruguay hosted and won the first World Cup. In recognition of the national team beating Argentina 4-2 in the final, the Uruguayan government declared the day after a public holiday and gave each of the team players a new house.

Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it infamy...

Thu, May 27, 2010

Insider is sure that all City Councillors had a right good old chuckle after reading Councillor Padraic Conneely’s letter to the editor in last week’s edition of this publication alleging that the Insider was running a vendetta against him. Conneely, long time master of the media seems to have a problem with anonymity.

Who will make it onto FG’s Galway West election ticket?

Thu, May 06, 2010

It is almost 30 years since Fine Gael last won two seats in Galway West and the party has never come close to repeating that success in any election since those lofty days of the early 1980s.

Labour can do better than a partnership with Fine Gael

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

With all the recent trade union conferences taking place in Galway, plus Labour’s annual congress, you could be forgiven for thinking our city is a socialist Mecca. However, can you remember when the last May Day demonstration happened here?

Insider can’t remember either. In other towns, the May Day march is organised by the local trades’ council. Alas, the Galway variety is a rather sad outfit. Controlled by a cabal of full-time union officials and Labourites – its celebration of the international workers’ day usually consists of a hastily organised public meeting. But this year of all years – with workers under attack like never before – it is doing nothing!

Let’s have a live debate in Galway

Thu, Apr 29, 2010

The live TV leadership debates in Britain have captured the public imagination, catapulted Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg into the spotlight, and are influencing the course of the general election.

The verdict on our county councillors

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

Insider has often commented on what he sees as the faults and failings (and occasionally virtues) of the individual city councillors, but it is time he turned his attention onto the 30 members of the Galway County Council.

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