Feel good with Patrick Holford
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
In association with Evergreen Healthfoods, Patrick Holford is bringing his The Feel Good Factor seminar tour to Galway this weekend. You can join Patrick Holford at the Radisson Blu Hotel this Saturday at 4pm to hear him explain the links between nutrition, lifestyle and mental health.
Read more ...Table quiz for Galway Sub Aqua Club
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
The Galway Sub Aqua Club, Search and Recovery Unit will host a fundraising table quiz upstairs in Monroe’s Live tomorrow Friday March 11 at 8pm.
Read more ...Connemara can’t live on beauty alone, says new force Kyne
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
He may not be as long on the scene as Éamon Ó Cuív, he’s not quite the ‘new kid in town’ that is Derek Nolan, and he may not be as outgoing as Noel Grealish, but Sean Kyne has become the quietly emerging figure of Galway politics, who this week took his first steps on the national stage.
Read more ...Man caught forging social welfare cheque
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
A Department of Family and Social Welfare cheque, worth €2,043, was posted to the wrong address where it stayed for several weeks until a man, faced with mounting financial problems, took the chance of lodging the cheque into his own bank account and withdrawing the money, the Galway District Court heard this week.
Alexsandrs Kalpaks (40) with an address at 96 Altan, Western Distributor Road, appeared before Judge Mary Fahy on Monday and pleaded guilty to fraudulently signing on the rear of the cheque the name of the true recipient with the intention that it be used to induce another person to accept it as genuine on November 23, 2009.
Read more ...Public lecture on Galway and 1911 Census
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
Galway in 1911 was a very different place to what it is now but we can get a good sense of what it was like through the 1911 Census figures.
Read more ...Pat Bracken memorial exhibition in city museum
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
An exhibition to commemorate the life and work of the late Pat Bracken will open in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2.30pm.
Read more ...Give your support for the Galway Rowing Club bumper raffle night
Thu, Mar 10, 2011
The Galway Rowing Club, which for more than a century has nurtured the potential of numerous young and gifted rowers, winning 28 Irish titles, is calling on all ex-members and other members of the public to give their support by taking part in its bumper Easter Sunday raffle next month.
The upcoming raffle is extremely important to the future of the club as it has become increasingly difficult to keep up with maintenance costs and to continue to provide the expert training received by the more than 65 active competitive rowers.
Read more ...Young gun TDs may have to wait for top jobs in new Government
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
Galway is unlikely to receive any cabinet or junior ministerial posts under the next government as the county’s four Fine Gael and two Labour TDs lack enough experience.
Read more ...Get set for the local elections - they are only three years away
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
The election is over! Bring on the next one! After the marathon counts in Galway East and Galway West, there cannot be many people who want another election too soon.
No Insider is not calling for another election - even his passion for politics has some boundaries. What I mean is that now Election 2011 is over, the battle for the next elections - the Seanad elections and the 2014 locals - will begin.
Read more ...Éamon Ó Cuív - last of the Mohicans
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
It came at around lunchtime on Sunday, four hours into the count that day, and after a marathon 13 hour count the day before - the first Galway West TD of the 31st Dáil was finally declared elected.
Read more ...Derek Nolan - one challenge met, new challenges to face
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
On Saturday morning in Leisureland, one of the first trends to emerge from the tallies was that Labour candidate Derek Nolan was polling strongly and would take a seat on this, his first time running for the Dáil.
Read more ...Frank Fahey - he has not quite gone away you know
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
One was a phonecall, the other a text. Both messages came early on Saturday morning, they were from two close friends, and both were enquiring about Fianna Fáil’s Frank Fahey. In their own way they exemplified the way Mr Fahey divides opinion.
Read more ...The ‘Paschal factor’ got me the seat
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
He was Fine Gael’s ‘Chosen One’, the heir apparent to Pádraic McCormack’s seat and party HQ were expecting him to retain it and deliver a running mate. He did, but it took a long time and it was nail-biting stuff to the very end.
Read more ...The highs, the lows, of a weekend in New Inn
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
Just when we thought it was going to be all plain sailing once again in Galway East the tides turned, a recount was ordered, votes vanished and disprepancies were found, but we got there in the end filling all four seats and closing the doors of the community centre in New Inn before midnight on Sunday.
Read more ...All the figures from Galway West
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
Number of seats: 5
Electorate: 88,840
All the figures from Galway East
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
Number of seats: 4
Electorate: 83,651
Call for volunteers and donations as Irish Cancer Society gears up for Daffodil Day
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
With this year’s Daffodil Day now just weeks away, the Irish Cancer Society is calling for volunteers to help with the annual fundraising event.
Read more ...Fundraiser for ‘transformed’ Ronan to take part in North Pole challenge
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
A regional representative with the humanitarian charity GOAL in the west and the midlands will take part in the world’s “coolest marathon” at the North Pole in April.
Fresh from his role as a leader on the health and fitness programme Operation Transformation, Ronan Scully says his latest challenge will be one of his toughest.
Read more ...NUIG Students’ Union vows to keeps pressure on new TDs
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
Labour TDs Derek Nolan and Colm Keaveney will come under severe pressure from the NUI Galway Students’ Union not to re-introduce third level fees in any form.
Read more ...Abbeyknockmoy act are favourites to win The All Ireland Talent Show
Thu, Mar 03, 2011
Abbeyknockmoy set dancers Cosa Beoga are now the odds-on favourite to win The All Ireland Talent Show. The young set dancers who have wowed audiences in recent weeks are appealing for votes to ensure they can dance to victory in the popular TV programme.
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