A week when so many never came home

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Lives and families take a long while to construct. They are the product of memory, of experience, of thousands of repetitive episodes of the mundane. Of night time tuck-ins, or morning wake-up calls. Of late night pick-ups, Of meals prepared. And shared. And moments of greatness and of nothingness. Of hugs and tantrums. Families in whatever shape they take are honed over a lifetime of experiences, not all memorable, but all bricks in the wall that construct the web of togetherness.

Rearing too is something that is never complete. Children who grow from being babes to teenagers to adults are never fully grown. They are forever the children of their parents, the siblings of their siblings, the cousins and nephews and nieces of their cousins, nephews, and nieces. Jigsaw pieces that create something whole and colourful, full of emotions of love and sadness.

Participants being sought to sign up for charity firewalk to remember Annaghdown man killed in Australia

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

BY CAROLINE WHELAN
The sister of an Annaghdown native, who was tragically killed in Australia last year, will take part in an innovative charity event in his honour next month.

Decades behind the counter

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Carmel Flaherty unlocked the recently bolted-up front door to her shop on Dominick Street so that she could stand in the open doorway for a commemorative photograph to be taken.

Bressie to speak at Mental Health Forum at NUI Galway tonight

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

NUI Galway will tonight (Thursday, 24 March) host a public forum to discuss the current challenges and future of mental health in Ireland in the O’Flaherty Theatre on the Arts Concourse at 7pm. Special guests will include Niall Breslin, better known as ‘Bressie’, and Dr Paul D’Alton, Clinical Psychologist and former president of The Psychological Society of Ireland and will be chaired by Dr Jonathan Egan from the School of Psychology at NUI Galway.

Event to examine the potential for female ministry in the Catholic church

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

An event entitled “Women — Potential for Ministry In The Church” will be held in Galway next week and will be addressed by Fr Tony Flannery and Maire Ni Dhuibhir.

The event being organised by Association of Catholics in Ireland (ACI) will be held in the Clayton Hotel on Thursday March 31 and will highlight issues raised by the exclusion of women from positions of significance in the Church.

Coole Park Visitor Centre re-opens after floods

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Good news for Coole Park lovers is that the Coole Park Visitor Centre is now open again after the winter floods — opening hours are 10am to 5pm daily. Last entry to Visitor Centre is at 4.45pm. and the park gates close at 6pm.

Galway ploughing all set for Loughgeorge on Sunday

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

The County Galway Ploughing Championships takes place on Easter Sunday , March 27, at Rouanmore, Loughgeorge, with a big turnout expected.

Independent candidate Alice-Mary Higgins calls for “long-term thinking” in public policy

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Ballot papers arrive for the NUl Seanad elections this week and independent candidate, Alice-Mary Higgins, has said she will draw on advocacy experience with Trocaire, Older & Bolder and the National Women’s Council of Ireland to bring “long term thinking into the heart of policy-making.”

Galway milliners to feature on The Hat Show on Irish TV

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

A number of local milliners will feature in a new six-part series about hat making which begins on IRISH TV tonight. Galway women Cathriona King, Gillian Duggan, and Suzie Mahoney are just some of the big names in the industry to be interviewed for the The Hat Show. The Galway episode, which was filmed in the g Hotel, will air in a fortnight’s time.

NUI Galway scientists make advances in battle against black fever

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Scientists from NUI Galway and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK have shown how the parasite responsible for the neglected tropical disease black fever (visceral leishmaniasis) can become resistant to drug treatment, in a paper published today in the life sciences and biomedicine journal eLife.

Studying the whole genomes (every single letter of the organism’s DNA code) of more than 200 samples of leishmania donovani parasites revealed that the addition of just two bases of DNA to a gene known as LdAQPI stops the parasite from absorbing antimonial drugs.

Shantalla to create 1916 Garden of Remembrance this weekend

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

A Garden of Remembrance is being created in Shantalla to honour the men and women of the 1916 Rising. Phase one of the project will be officially opened on Easter Monday, March 28, at 4pm.

Memorial stone to Galway’s 1916 heroes to be unveiled

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

County Galway saw the greatest level of activity in the 1916 Rising outside Dublin, and the Galwegians who stood up for Ireland’s independence will be honoured with a memorial stone to be unveiled this week.

Cura restructuring sees services focused through Galway and three other centres

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

In response to changing trends in access to, and in the take-up of services, Cura Crisis Pregnancy Support Services has announced the restructuring of its services designed to continue to meet the contemporary needs of clients, while maintaining Cura’s caring, compassionate and professional approach. This will see all services now based at four centres nationwide, including one in Galway.

Flannery hopeful his stance on animal welfare and equal rights will boost NUI Seanad chances

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Galway city Cllr Pearse Flannery is hopeful his progressive stance on animal rights and human rights will help win support in the Seanad Elections for the NUI panel.

Step it out for multiple sclerosis

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Walkers and joggers/runners of all ages and abilities are being urged to step it out for multiple sclerosis on Easter Monday at Salthill Promenade.

Bereavement support service for parents and families holds parent evening in the city

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

A national organisation, set up by a Galway couple which provides free support services for bereaved parents and families, will hold its monthly parent evening in the city next week.

Anam Cara will hold the event on Wednesday April 6 from 7.30pm to 9pm at the Ballybane Enterprise Centre.

NUI Galway Arts in Action Grand Finale tonight

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

NUI Galway’s Arts in Action 2016 Grand Finale will take place at the upper Aula Maxima on campus on Thursday, March 24 at 7pm. This event, which is entitled ‘War, Freedom, Love and Loss’, is a collaboration between the University’s discipline of English, School of Medicine, and the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance.

This gala evening is also part of the ‘A Nation Rising/Éire á Muscailt’ programme, which is programmed and directed by NUI Galway’s Dr Mary Harris and runs throughout the academic year.

1916 leader Éamonn Ceannt to be honoured in Galway

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

Éamonn Ceannt, the Galwayman who was a signatory to the 1916 Proclamation will be honored at a special ceremony in the city this weekend, in what the organisers hope will become a yearly event.

Fianna Fáil to abandon Oranmore in hunt for two seats at next election?

Wed, Mar 23, 2016

Will we have another election in a few months' time, or will Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael drop the posturing, realise there is more important work to be done than paying defference to their Civil War legacies, and come to some kind of governmental arrangement?

Businesses want by-laws not code of conduct for city buskers

Tue, Mar 22, 2016

Introducing a code of conduct for city buskers has met a hostile reception from city businesses who are demanding by-laws instead to give gardaí the power to confiscate amplifiers for musicians who go over 75db in volume.

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