Search Results for 'west coast'

Loose Rooster

Following the electric atmosphere of the last 12 days, Let's Do It Galway, are asking as many people as possible to join in farewell festivities on Saturday to bid farewell to the Volvo Ocean Race sailors.

Ervallagh, situated between Roundstone village and the beautiful white sand beach at Gurteen, is a unique holiday location. This three bed cottage, currently on the market, overlooks Ervallagh Pier.

Billions of euros worth of gas and oil lie off the west coast and around the Lough Allen basin, but Ireland is not exploiting these natural resources to its own advantage.

Galway airport management have said they are hugely concerned by An Bord Snip recommendations that all support, amounting to €17million, to Ireland’s six regional airports and regional air services is cut by 2011.

In aid of two children’s charities, brothers Declan and Paul Devane and friend Gary Jennings will dive with sharks in the ocean tank of Galway Atlantaquaria between 11am and 4pm on Saturday next September 19, and Sunday September 20. Throughout the dive, they will have two-way communication units, which will allow them to interact with visitors to the aquarium. Galway Atlantaquaria will donate a percentage of door receipts to their fundraising initiative ‘The World’s Longest Scuba Dive’.

The final section of the M6 Galway to Dublin motorway will open tomorrow, linking the east and west coast on budget, and four months ahead of schedule.

PHILIP DONNELLY’S long musical career began in the 1960s when he was a member of Elmer Fudd, part of the emerging Irish rock scene which also included Them, Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, and Taste.