Ahascragh milliner’s creations get royal nod from Kate

Thu, Feb 24, 2011

As the who’s who receive their invites there will be one Galwayman who will be making an impact at the upcoming royal nuptials by helping Prince William’s bride-to-be, Kate Middleton, turn a few heads in one of his creations.

Let’s save this country for our chidlren

Thu, Feb 24, 2011

It’ll be great to get this election out of the way. After months and months of political turmoil, the Irish psyche is quite distressed, Our heads have taken a pounding about five year plans and moving forward and looking backwards and for the greater good and in the national interest, and now we’re at the stage where we’re just wishing that they’d all shag off back under the rock whence they crawled.

We’ve had it up to here with it all and soon, thankfully, not soon enough, the whole thing will be over and the country will feel that a sort of change has taken place, anew beginning has been energised and with it, there will be some hope for us all and the generations to come.

Gardai seek missing Polish man

Fri, Feb 18, 2011

Gardai in Oranmore, Co Galway have appealed for help in tracing a missing Polish man.

Pawel Kowaczyk, a 33-year-old Polish national was last seen at his home at Frenchpark, Oranmore at 5am on Tuesday last February 15 2011.

FG to take two seats as FF vote collapses, poll predicts

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Fine Gael’s Brian Walsh is to become the new ‘big name’ in Galway West politics, while Fianna Fáil’s Frank Fahey, a major name on the national stage, will lose his seat, according to a new opinion poll for Galway West carried out by the Galway Advertiser.

Field starts to take shape with just a week to go

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Roll up, roll up, roll up, for the next week you are Willie Wonka, the chocolate maker, and you have it in your power to make someone very very happy indeed. You are the holder of the key to the kingdom, the keeper of the Golden Ticket for nine individuals who after your consideration are set to benefit enormously through your trust of their general capabilities to represent you and your area for the next five years.

Field starts to take shape with just a week to go

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Roll up, roll up, roll up, for the next week you are Willie Wonka, the chocolate maker, and you have it in your power to make someone very very happy indeed. You are the holder of the key to the kingdom, the keeper of the Golden Ticket for nine individuals who after your consideration are set to benefit enormously through your trust of their general capabilities to represent you and your area for the next five years.

Just six candidates will battle it out for the five seats, poll shows

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Brian Walsh, Eamon O Cúiv, Noel Grealish, Derek Nolan, Fidelma Healy-Eames and Catherine Connolly; these are the six candidates from whom the five successful T.D.'s for Galway West are expected to emerge, according to the Galway Advertiser poll published in today's paper.

How the regions voted in the opinion poll

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

While overall Galway West mosly mirrrors the national average in terms of it’s support for the various political parties, it’s various local authority regions manage to somewhat buck those very same trends.

Galway West is turning blue

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Charles J Haughey may have been born in Castlebar, but the west of Ireland will get it’s first proper taoiseach when Enda Kenny assumes the position after February 25.

Skilled workforce and universities key factors to Fidelity expansion

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A highly skilled workforce and research carried out by top-calibre Irish universities were key factors in the decicion by US multinational Fidelity Investments to expand its operations here with the view of creating some 75 new jobs at its Galway base.

Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest providers of financial services, first established its presence in Ireland in 1996 and currently has more than 240 technology associates working at office locations in Dublin and Galway. Earlier this week it was announced that the company will be adding 100 new positions to its Irish operations and it is expected that some 75 recruits will join the Galway operation at Parkmore East Business Park where 125 people are already employed. This move by Fidelity, which is supported by IDA Ireland, also represents an investment of €11 million over three years.

Walker discovers body of missing man at Claddagh Basin

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A large-scale search operation, which had gone into its fourth day, ended yesterday morning following the grim discovery of the missing man’s body at the Claddagh Basin.

Fahey tells Ó Cuív and Grealish to ‘stop playing politics’ over flooding

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey has called on his party colleague Éamon Ó Cuív and former Government colleague Noel Grealish to “stop raising false hopes” among those whose homes were flooded in 2009.

Ryan’s fashion show to raise funds for Western Alzheimer’s

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Fashionistas can look forward to a feast of fashion at Anthony Ryan’s Spring fashion show which takes place at the Ardilaun on Tuesday March 8 at 8.30pm.

Fibromyalgia support group to meet in city next month

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A support group for people suffering from fibromyalgia will hold its first meeting on Tuesday March 1 from 7.30 to 9pm at Galway Cheshire House, Curragrean, Merlin Park.

Galway motorists paying up to €700 to repair pothole damage to vehicles

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Calls are flooding in to Galway county councillors on a daily basis regarding burst tyres and the dangerous conditions of the roads, with some motorists paying out more than €700 to repair damage caused by massive potholes.

The arts have a social and economic value, artists tell politicians

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

The need to defend and support the arts in a climate of economic devastation, a political ideology of savage cuts to front line services, and ‘socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor’ has never been more pressing.

Man denies threatening bouncers over barrier obstruction

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

An ex-business man who quarrelled with bouncers at a city centre nightclub over the perceived dangers and permission to erect barriers on a public footpath denied shouting threats and pointing his fingers aggressively, saying he was simply remonstrating.

€72m local hospital expansion plan to become a reality in short term, confirms Frank Fahey

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A €72 million expansion plan for University and Merlin Park Hospitals will transform both facilities, improving capacity, updating theatres and easing the pressure on UHG’s emergency department.

Man who broke into Shantalla national school is jailed

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

A 25-year-old man who broke into a city national school while on a concoction of alcohol and medication has been sentenced to six months in jail.

Theological science fiction

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

My title is not a sop to what one writer has wittily dubbed the ‘Dawkins Ascendency’, a group which no doubt would be delighted to banish theology to the realms of science fiction and fantasy. Into the dustbin with one of the oldest ways mankind has used to throw light on the fundamental questions of existence. And only a blinkered arrogance would dare discard any means or methods we possess in trying to answer them.

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