Workshops by acclaimed NY choreographer and performance artist

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

NUI Galway has announced a series of movement and dance workshops led by acclaimed New York City choreographer and performance artist Maureen Fleming. The Centre for Irish Studies, in association with the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, will host a series of six workshops beginning Wednesday, 8 March.

Notice to conserve water lifted from Williamstown water supply

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

rish Water said yesterday that they like to thank the people supplied by the Williamstown Water Supply for adhering to advice to conserve water over the past couple of days. The notice to conserve has now been lifted with the plant back to full production.

Galway’s Cheltenham preview night at The Arches Hotel

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Cheltenham 2017 is just around the corner and Galway punters will be treated to the hottest tips and expert analysis for this year’s festival straight at The Arches Hotel preview night.

The event will take place on Thursday March 9 at 8pm with well-known racing aficionado, Kevin O’Dwyer of Galway Bay FM, introducing a lively debate with a panel of experts from the racing world.

Action plan for 20-year strategy for Irish language will be published by summer

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Minister for Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources and Fine Gael TD for Galway West and Mayo South Seán Kyne last evening confirmed that his Department is working on an action plan for the twenty year strategy for the Irish language.

Paul Brady to perform at NUI Galway alumni awards on campus this weekend

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Singer songwriter Paul Brady will perform at the 2017 Alumni Awards to be held in the university this weekend at an event hosted by award winning TG4 news anchor Eimear Ní Chonaola will host this year’s Gala Banquet featuring the 2017 Alumni Awards ceremony.

New city park and rugby pitch planned for Kingston

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Twelve acres of amenity land in the Kingston area, half of which is owned by the Galway City Council, look set to be turned into a major public park to include a children’s play area, three multi-use games areas, and a grass rugby pitch.

Surge in passport applications ‘could wreck travel plans’ warns Grealish

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

The dramatic new surge in applications for passports over the last eight weeks “could result in people’s travel plans being wrecked” with waiting times for passport processing expected to increase.

No plans to use prefabs at UHG to tackle overcrowding, says Naughton

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

There are no plans to use prefabs at University Hospital Galway (UHG) as a short-term response to the overcrowding crisis, FG deputy Hildegarde Naughton said last evening.

Online study launched for parents of children with disabilities

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

The research will be carried out throughout Ireland, the UK, and the US until April 2017, and the researchers are particularly keen for couples in Ireland to participate in the survey.

Dr Kristen Maglieri and Professor Brian Hughes from the School of Psychology at NUI Galway are recruiting couples to complete the online research study, exploring how parents in a relationship (married or unmarried) cope with the daily stresses of raising a child with a disability.

COPE Galway Sleepout raised more than €140,000

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

COPE Galway have confirmed that that their business Sleep Out held in the city last December has raised over €140,000.

Cancer Care West to hold course on life after cancer treatment

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Cancer Care West is delighted to launch a new course, aimed at people who have finished their cancer treatment.

Locked on — brothers find the key to success in Galway

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Lock Doctor, a business created in the height of the recession, has grown into Ireland’s largest firm of locksmiths and has franchises around the country. Now brothers Tommy and Michael Dillon have brought this buisness to Galway.

NUI Galway to name iconic building after first woman to earn an engineering degree

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

A ceremony to mark the official naming of the Alice Perry Engineering Building will take place at NUI Galway on Monday next March 6 to honour the woman first woman in Ireland or the UK to have received a degree in engineering.

Big clean-up in Moycullen this weekend

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

A major community clean-up, including a decluttering of the Moycullen and Killannin lakes and canals will take place this Saturday and volunteers are asked to meet at An Fuaran car park at Moycullen at 10am.

As one of its projects Moycullen Historical Society (MHS) started researching the history/use of Moycullen-Killannin Lakes and Canals in Nov. 2015. As part of the research for this project MHS has interviewed many interested people, including past users, Fisheries Board, OPW, coarse anglers, boating/kayaking, farmers, etc. etc. (ongoing)

LARC respond to proposals to sell Loughrea Town Hall

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Loughrea Arts Recreation and Culture (LARC) have expressed concern that Galway County Council is prepared to consider selling Loughrea Town Hall to unspecified commercial interests.

Spring retreats and events at Knock Shrine

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

This Spring brings with it a host of great events at Knock Shrine, from day retreats to music workshops, there is plenty to enrich and enliven. The latest faith renewal programme has been developed to offer new and engaging day retreats, workshops, courses and spiritual concerts to the local community and pilgrims visiting the world famous Shrine.

Lifes2good donates €50,000 to Galway SAMARITANS

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Lifes2good, an Irish health and beauty company headquartered in Galway, teamed up with local charity Galway SAMARITANS last year in an attempt to raise much needed funds and awareness for the charity. Galway SAMARITANS are currently undertaking a refurbishment of their Nun’s Island location which had greatly deteriorated over the past number of years.

Societies by their nature are inequitable

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Take a stroll out on the street and see for yourself the various manifestations of humanity that are there before your eyes. You see the strong, the weak, the confident, the loud, the shy, the timid. All human nature. Every country has people who exist under the radar, whose voices are never heard because they have not been granted a voice, or because the people who have been designated the role of being their voice are not doing their job properly.

When we tend to think of those without a voice, we tend to look back and imagine this from a different age, the child in the back room who is never brought out, an era when everyone lived in black and white, when people were not glic, when they were uneducated, didn’t know their rights. And because of that, they became the unwitting victims of a whole generation of perverse horror.

This Saturday is the grand opening of TJ O’Mahonys Gort Newly Designed Store

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

This Saturday is the grand opening of TJ O’Mahonys Gort Newly Designed Store. Formally Coen’s Hardware TJ O’MAHONYS is one of Ireland’s best known names in Builders Providers and Hardware stores.

JCI Galway and the Portershed are excited to welcome Award-winning photographer Mark White with his initiative 'Faces of Ireland 2017'

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

Mark has been taking to the highways and byways of Ireland on a mission to photograph the ‘Faces of Ireland: 2017’ and is looking for 20 male or female models of any age to volunteer in Galway.

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