Search Results for 'Christmas'

The Irish Heart Foundation’s second annual On The Dry campaign supported by 2FM has attracted nearly 3,000 registrants over the Christmas period so far from people looking to make a fresh, alcohol-free start in 2016.

Fresh from a rousing appearance on RTE’s Prime Time, which nearly had Miriam O’Callaghan in tears, Bridie Willers is determined that this flood will not take away her spirit. And spirited the former Fine Gael councillor certainly is. Her home in Ardrahan has taken in water on numerous occasions in recent years, the latest flood cruelly arriving on Christmas morning, and frankly she has had enough.

Hoppy Bar Stars will open The Snug Bar's first full new year week, when they perform at 10pm on Friday, January 8. Hoppy Bar Stars are a well-known band who are really popular around the Athlone area - just the band to get you back into the habit of going out again after the excesses of Christmas!

Local dog rescue charity MADRA will hold a Puppy Adoption Day at St Joseph’s Community Centre in Shantalla this Saturday, January 9, from 12 - 3.30 pm.

He is sitting there, all alone, huddled in the chilly May dew upon a rock dressed in seaweed. His scruffy, woollen coat wrapped tightly around his frailing 84 year old body. The waves, roughly batter around his black, scuffed ankle boots as he licks on an icecream cone. A lonesome seagull is perched on the rock beside him trying to peck at the cornet. ‘Away with you,’ he flummoxed with his tar stained, crinkly hand. ‘Shoo.’ It has always baffled me as to where he can get an icecream cone for his breakfast. The town is a distance away and his feeble waddle would take him a good two hours to walk. I am convinced he lives in the icecream truck hiding behind the Burrishoole, Grace O’Malley castle, over towering beside us. I often hear the jingle of the icecream van but I can never see it.

THE CHRISTMAS indulgence of food and drink may be over with the arrival of the lean and austere month of January, but Galwegians will have a chance to indulge in all manner of cuisine, indeed a century of it, when the Galway Food Festival returns.

As Galway prepared for a battering from Storm Frank yesterday evening, Ardrahan-based county councillor Michael Fahy called on An Taoiseach Enda Kenny to visit south Galway to see the destruction caused by recent flooding in the area.

It is estimated that between three and four thousand people attended Moate’s Christmas market this year, which was organised by Moate Partnership Group.

Leading home and shop insurance experts, insuremyhouse.ie and insuremyshop.ie, are calling on the Government to establish of a flood fund similar to the motor fund run by the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIBI).

Hello to everyone post-Christmas 2015 as we face into the new year.