Bella Baby’s dream giveaway for a euro

Thu, Dec 01, 2011

Bella Baby, Galway’s leading nursery retailer, is stepping out from the crowd and providing one very lucky customer with his/her chosen travel system for only €1.

Save half your bus fare with a Taxsaver Commuter Ticket

Thu, Dec 01, 2011

Commuters in Galway can save themselves up to 52 per cent on the cost of point to point annual/yearly and monthly Bus Éireann tickets and also Galway city bus tickets with the Taxsaver Commuter Ticket.

At a time when saving money is imperative for everyone, the Taxsaver commuter ticket from Bus Éireann enables companies to help employees substantially reduce their travel costs – in many cases by hundreds of euro.

Just an extra tenner a week spent locally will generate €100 million for Galway

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

For us, this campaign is not just about the local businesses but also about our local communities. Our businesses are at the heart of our local communities, and if they are suffering, so too are our communities.

Be a local hero and keep your area alive

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Shop Local campaigns have been ten-a-penny over the years, delivered by bland paragraphs by well-off businesspeople in grey suits, pleading with their communities to support them and their lifestyle. And for that very reason, they have often failed, because the real message has not been communicated successfully.

Don’t hit the least well off the hardest in tough Budget

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Galway Fine Gael TDs have come out against proposed cuts to the Brothers of Charity services and insisted that next month’s Budget must not hit the most vulnerable or least well of in society the hardest.

Kiteflying is not doing anyone any favours

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

While the age old concept of kiteflying may be perceived as being a politically astute way of dampening down expectations of doom and gloom, the velocity at which information is leaving the Cabinet table has seen these leaks become spurts, all aimed at the fragile psyche of the Irish public. And to be honest, this is not acceptable behaviour by our political masters, no matter how new they might be to the business of power.

GMIT and NUIG students to protest against fee hikes

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

The student unions for Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and NUI Galway have joined together today to protest against attempts by the Government to increase student fees.

City Hall dismisses Seamus Quirke Road over-runs claims

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Claims that City Hall may need to go to the bank to borrow €5 million for the Seamus Quirke Road upgrade appear to be unfounded as no definite figure on any overrun for the project has been confirmed.

‘Severe disruption’ at Briarhill

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Road works at Briarhill will to lead to traffic reductions and “severe disruption” over the coming week.

Aviva jobs still uncertain

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

The future of Galway’s Aviva operations, employing more than 200 people, is still uncertain with UNITE warning the contents of a leaked document outlining the company’s restructuring plans is, for the moment, “speculation”.

Show your gratitude to those who paid for the lights as Christmas market kicks off

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Shoppers who enjoy the Christmas lights which will be switched on in the city tomorrow evening will this year know which businesses actually paid for their installation, because they will be displaying special Follow The Lights stickers handed out by the Galway City Business Association.

Park and ride service returns with €2 fare

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Galway’s Christmas Park and Ride Service begins on Saturday December 3 and will have a fare of €2 that includes all day parking and return bus travel.

The all-in fare for the Galway City Council’s park and ride service has been introduced to encourage maximum public uptake in the run up to Christmas.

Galway public meeting on expected cuts to education

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

The upcoming December Budget poses a very real and serious threat to our children’s education, according to the Galway branch of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO).

Unique Cancer Care West event features author Colm Tóibín

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

A special evening of literature and music, featuring award-winning author and playwright Colm Tóibín, takes place on Saturday.

City marks World AIDS Day with memorial service

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

A voluntary organisation which offers support and care to people affected by HIV/AIDS is organising a candelit memorial service in the city to mark World AIDS Day on December 1.

‘Name and shame’ tardy consultants, urges health forum chairperson

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is demanding that consultants at Galway University Hospitals [UHG and Merlin Park] who fail to sign off private health insurance claims promptly are “named and shamed”.

Connacht Rugby says ‘thank you’ for making historic match a success

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

An open letter from Connacht Rugby
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New Gaelscoil for Oranmore to become a reality

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

A deal to acquire a site for a new 16-room school for Gaelscoil de hÍde, Oranmore, is expected to be concluded in the coming weeks, according to Fine Gael Galway West TD Brian Walsh.

Progress in advancing the development of the new school, which will include a two-class special needs unit with a central activities space, had stalled pending the acquisition of a suitable site in Oranmore.

Brothers charged with pay and display theft

Thu, Nov 24, 2011

Two brothers charged with causing criminal damage to pay and display machines in the city to get their hands on more than €1,400 have been remanded into further custody to await the directions of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Vasile Feirer (29) and Toader Feirer (23) both with an address given as 12 Portland Street, Dublin 1, were brought in custody before Galway District Court on Monday charged with the criminal damage of a pay and display machine, attempting to commit theft, attempting to get into a mechanically propelled vehicle, and being in possession of a 18v Dewalt cordless drill, a drill bit, screw driver, and steel barrel with intent to commit theft at The Crescent, Galway, on November 20, 2011. They were also charged with stealing the contents of pay and display machine valued at €1,007.85, the criminal damage of a pay and display machine at New Road, and stealing the contents of a pay and display machine valued at €415 and criminal damage of the machine at Canal Road on January 29, 2011. Toader Feirer was further charged with resisting Garda Pat Fahy and threatening and abusive behaviour at The Crescent on November 20, 2011.