From bailout to baleouts — it’s leak and potato soup

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Grab hold of your stopcock. Make sure your ballcock is floating. Now relax there in the dark of the attic.

Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse, it has. Just when we thought that with the Christmas confession and all that we had purged ourselves of the sins and excesses of the Celtic Tiger, the weather gods decide to play one more cruel trick on us and say “grand, we’ll take away the ice and the snow, but we’ll give ye water instead and this time it’ll come through the ceiling, through the floors, out of the walls.

Sadness at passing of human rights champion

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Tributes have been paid to Professor Kevin Boyle— a founder of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI, Galway — who died this week.

Tuesday will be chaotic in our local hospitals fears Connolly as redundancy programme kicks in

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

The decision by clerical staff in the Regional and Merlin Park Hospitals to avail of the redundancy package offered by the HSE West will leave consultants and doctors without essential secretarial and clerical staff

Fine Gael adds Cannon to Galway East General Election ticket

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Former PD leader Senator Ciaran Cannon has been added to the Fine Gael ticket to contest the General Election in the Galway East constituency.

Conditional approval given for Arts Millennium Building extension at NUI Galway

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

NUI Galway has received conditional approval from Galway City Council to build an extension to the Arts Millennium Building.

TG4 to explore the life of Raiftearaí an File

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

GENERATIONS OF Irish school children were taught to recite Mise Raiftearaí an File, believing it to be by the Mayo/Galway poet Antoine Ó Raifteiri, which he wrote about himself.

One third of UHG patients could be treated at Ballinasloe or Roscommon hospitals

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

More than one third of patients currently treated at University Hospital Galway could be cared for instead at Portiuncula and Roscommon hospitals, according to the HSE.

Ro’s set for the North Pole challenge

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

A local man will raise funds for six of his favourite charities when he participates in the North Pole Marathon next year.

Groundbreaking NUI Galway research to pave way for first treatments for secondary progressive MS

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Groundbreaking research carried out at NUI Galway is expected to pave the way for the first treatments for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis.

Students from six local schools to take part in Lego challenge

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Students from six Galway schools are finalising their entries for the first Lego League Robotics Challenge national finals which take place at the Radisson Hotel on Saturday January 8.

Urgent action needed to tackle city’s housing refusal, says Cllr Nolan

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Problems with the upkeep of estates, management, and anti-social behaviour have resulted in some local authority houses being refused up to seven times by prospective tenants, according to councillor and chair of the city’s housing committee Derek Nolan.

Starting the twelve-month pilgrimage

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

There are historical reasons why we celebrate New Year on the first day of January. And when I say ‘we’, I am reminded that other cultures celebrate their New Year at different times, but, if for no other than commercial reasons, the Western way of marking the New Year on January 1 has been adopted around the world.

Water woes for county householders

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Galway County Council were forced to extend water restrictions at night in locations across the county last week in order to allow reservoir levels to recover.

Mise Raiftearaí – An Fíodóir Focal

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Craolfar clár speisialta faoin bhfile agus cumadóir amhrán, Antoine Raiftearaí ar TG4 ar oíche chinn bliana, 31 Nollaig, ag tosú 7.45in.

Comórtas na Nollag Lár Sráide

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Tá seachtain eile agaibh chun iarratas a dhéanamh ar chomórtas na Nollag Lár Sráide. Tá lear mór duaiseanna againn i mbliana, urraithe ag Cló Iar-Chonnachta Teo, Gael Linn, Cló Mhaigh Eo, Raidió na Gaeltachta, TG4, Móinín, agus Conradh na Gaeilge. Is iad seo a leanas na ceisteanna.

Insulation schemes ensured warmer homes for Galway families during cold snap — O Brolchain

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Galway Senator Niall O Brolchain has welcomed new figures from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland showing that the national insulation schemes have saved money for more than 7,000 households in Galway and have helped to reduce fuel poverty.

Westdoc comes to rescue of public health nurses

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Westdoc, the out-of-hours GP service, has come to the rescue of HSE public health nurses and home help workers in Galway and Roscommon during the Big Freeze.

Ballinasloe butcher set to chop 50 off the New Year unemployment line

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

A Ballinasloe butcher has launched a National Butchery Academy with the aim of taking up to 50 unemployed people and training them up in the all things meaty.

GSPCA getting two calls a day about starving horses

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

The Galway Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have been receiving on average two calls a day regarding abandoned, starving, and neglected horses throughout the county.

The severe weather conditions, coupled with the downturn in the economy, has meant that many horses have been left abandoned in isolated bogs and mountainous areas and the GSPCA have been inundated in recent weeks with calls from concerned members of the public. The extent of the problem has also been highlighted by Galway Bay FM presenter Valerie Hughes who, after witnessing dozens of starving horses along the Headford Road, initiated a campaign to get feed out to them.

Galway Science and Technology Festival exhibition set to expand

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

Following the unprecedented success of the Galway Science and Technoloogy Festival, where over 20,000 attended the festival exhibition held at NUI Galway, the festival committee are now considering expanding the exhibition to a two-day event.

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