Red Barn colour scheme helps nursing home clients
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The Red Barn In Briarhill Business Park is always evolving and coming up with new ways and ideas to transform homes and improve upon ways of decorating painting and window dressings. However the crew recently undertook a renovation to a nursing home, where the owner wanted the rooms updated and modernised and yet they had to conform to standards and be very functional, with of course cleaniness and comfort a high priority.
Read more ...Red Barn colour scheme helps nursing home clients
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The Red Barn In Briarhill Business Park is always evolving and coming up with new ways and ideas to transform homes and improve upon ways of decorating painting and window dressings. However the crew recently undertook a renovation to a nursing home, where the owner wanted the rooms updated and modernised and yet they had to conform to standards and be very functional, with of course cleaniness and comfort a high priority.
Read more ...Babies sleep better with safer mattresses
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
Bella Baby, Oranmore, has just added a new range of mattresses called Aerosleep. AeroSleep is revolutionary when it comes to the safety and health of your sleeping baby. It is not the mattress that should allow air to circulate but the surface on which the baby sleeps.
Read more ...Council to provide funds to battle African Pond Weed
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
African Pond Weed has “taken hold in the Corrib” with “serious implications” for wildlife, fishing, and boating in the lough, and funds are needed to tackle the problem.
Read more ...First birthday celebrations at The Co-Op this weekend
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The Co-Op in Moycullen has long been the most important historical structure in the village, but until last year it had been a derelict shell for many years. Well known Galway engineers and restorers the Heneghans have breathed new life into the building, transforming it into a unique restaurant and entertainment venue. The venue will celebrate its first birthday this weekend.
Read more ...Celebrate Arthur’s Day and the Oyster Festival at Kelly’s Bar
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
From Thursday September 23 until Sunday September 26, Kelly’s Bar will be hosting a variety of party events for the Galway Oyster Festival. Enjoy a range of seafood dishes from the menu or swing by on Saturday and Sunday where you can pour your own pint of Guinness with oyster tasting from 3pm.
Read more ...Inbetweeners star hits Karma
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The third season of E4’s hit TV series The Inbetweeneers has hit the screens this week, recording the biggest audience yet. James Buckley, who plays the role of Jay Cartwright has been credited as the most popular character on the show and will be in Karma Club, Eyre Square, Galway, on Wednesday next September 22.
Read more ...Cross yer legs ‘til Lucan
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
Not only will motorists continue to fork out for tolls but a trip on the M6 will be, let us say uncomfortable, with plans for service areas abandoned due to lack of funding.
Read more ...Search is on in Ballinasloe for 2010 Queen of the Fair
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
With just over two weeks to go to the start of the Ballinasloe October Fair and Festival, the search is now on to select the 2010 Carlton Shearwater Hotel Queen of the Fair.
Read more ...Search and rescue for missing man called off
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
A search and rescue mission initiated to search for a man who went missing from the Letterfrack area in Renvyle was called off yesterday after contact was made.
Read more ...The Saw Doctors’ record signing
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The Saw Doctors will be in Zhivago on Shop Street tomorrow at 1pm to play a few songs and sign copies of their new album The Further Adventures of...
Read more ...Galway Culture Night takes place this week
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
Galway Culture Night 2010 takes place on Friday September 24 across the city and county with theatre, exhibitions, talks, music, readings, film, dance, and literary events from 5pm to 11pm.
Read more ...Failure to renew paediatric urologist’s contract leaves children in the ‘lurch’
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
Some 330 children, outpatients at University Hospital Galway, have been left in the “lurch” because a paediatric urologist’s contract has not been renewed.
Read more ...Deal with illegal taxi parking on Forster Street says Walsh
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The proposed new bus lane for Bothar Uí hEithir and Forster Street will only be a success if the problem of illegally parked taxis is dealt with first.
Read more ...A vote for FF is a vote for Cowen
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
Brian Cowen sounded as rough as a bear’s arse on Morning Ireland following his all night revelling in The Ardilaun during this week’s Fianna Fáil think-in in Galway.
Read more ...Fine Gael to choose its local candidates before Christmas
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
The Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin told The Last Word on Today FM on Monday that Fianna Fáil is not preparing for an election. However Fine Gael is.
Fine Gael is preparing for the next general election which is officially due to take place in 2012, but could come just as easily any time over the next 12 months. As a result FG in Galway will hold its Galway West election selection convention before Christmas.
Read more ...Heaney reading for Cancer Care West
Thu, Sep 16, 2010
A huge crowd turned up in the Bailey Allen Hall last week for a poetry reading by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The programme began with some exquisite music by Mozart and Debussy played by Galway’s musical quartet, Contempo, and it was followed by music of a different kind that will resonate in the memories of those who were present as Heaney read from his new book Human Chain.
Read more ...High Court told Aer Arann has ‘reasonable prospect of survival’
Thu, Sep 09, 2010
Aer Arann has a “reasonable prospect of survival” and could return to profitability by next year, the High Court was told at a hearing held yesterday (Wednesday) to determine the airline’s examinership status.
Read more ...We must support the leaner and more efficient Aer Arann
Thu, Sep 09, 2010
The news that came out of the High Court yesterday afternoon that there is a reasonable chance of Aer Arann surviving is one that should be welcomed most especially here in the west. Our local airport is dependent on Aer Arann for giving us the type of connectivity to the major UK and Irish cities that a major city like Galway needs.
Read more ...Council signs major contract for upgrading Seamus Quirke Road
Thu, Sep 09, 2010
The Galway City Council has signed a €7 million contract with Coffey Construction Ltd for the long awaited upgrading of the Seamus Quirke Road, according to Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely.
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