Galway songwriter seeks Eurovision success with new song for Niamh Kavanagh

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Knocknacarra’s Niall Mooney has co-written one of the songs which will be competing to represent Ireland at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Discover the family tree of Frank Fahy

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Galway politics has had three Frank Fahys. There is the Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey, the Fine Gael candidate Frank Fahy in last year’s local elections, and an important but often overlooked Frank Fahy who was a TD for almost 35 years.

It is this latter Frank Fahy who will be the subject of a public lecture in Oranmore next week. The Family History of Frank Fahy TD - First Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann will be given by Áine Kelly in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Wednesday March 10 at 8.15pm. The meeting is organise by The Western Family History Association.

Galway university life over the decades

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Being a student in 1950s Galway was a very different experience from being there in the 1970s, just as lecturing or working there changed over the decades.

No experience required…

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

I wrote recently of the urgent need for competence in Government. Commercial competence gained through experience at the coalface is essential to successfully negotiate the current economic challenges. In any major public organisation the people at the helm are appointed on ability gained through experience of working at a high level in business.

Man jailed for sexual assault of stepdaugher

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

A man who sexually assaulted his stepdaughter when she was aged between six and seven years old was jailed for 11 months this week.

University enlists young group to research impact of love busts on young people

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

A mid-western university has joined forces with a Galway based national youth organisation to conduct research into the impact of relationship break-ups on young people’s lives.

Free calls to Chile for Galway Chileans worried about home

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Chileans living in Galway and worried about loved ones following the earthquake which has devastated the country can avail of free phonecalls to home until Wednesday March 10.

Easter computers for beginners at GMIT

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

An exciting introductory and digital media friendly course on how to use your computer and the internet (in the home) will be run at GMIT after Easter.

The Mayoral Ball is back

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

The Mayoral Ball is back for 2010, after last year’s absence from Galway’s social calendar, and takes place on Saturday May 29.

Table quiz for local family charity

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

A table quiz is being held in Bodkins Bar, Merlin Park on March 11 at 8pm to help raise much needed funds for the group entitled Families, Fathers and Friends.

More than 3,500 people registered with local volunteer centre since 2006

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

More than 3,500 people have registered with Galway Volunteer Centre seeking volunteer work since the service was set up in 2006.

Fundraising event for Afghan women

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan is a political/social organisation struggling for peace, freedom, democracy, and women’s rights in Afghanistan since 1977.

Further education open day at Galway Community College

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

GCC will be holding its Further Education Open Day on Wednesday next March 10, from 10am-4pm. In keeping with current trends and demand, the college currently offers 18 full time FETAC Level Five courses in business and media, performance and production, design and technology, social care, sport and horticulture.

Win a pair of designer frames and two tickets to the Senior Times Over 50s Show with Specsavers

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

To celebrate the forthcoming Senior Times Over 50s Show, which takes place on of March 13 and 14 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Specsavers Galway has teamed up with the Galway Advertiser to offer two lucky readers a pair of gorgeous designer frames and two tickets to the show. In addition, the two winners will receive a complimentary eye test.

Coole Park prepares for Tree Week

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

A range of events for all ages will take place in Coole next month as the park celebrates Tree Week as part of its spring cultural programme.

Sunday March 7 will see several events taking place in Coole including Coole Trees in Spring, a guided walk through the park with staff from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, who will explain how to identify different tree species in spring. This event will take place from 2.30pm to 4pm along with a range of indoor and outdoor family events including scavenger hunts and games.

Rushie’s to be a barman in Coyotes

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Liverpool football legend Ian Rush is coming to Coyotes Late Bar on Forster Street this Saturday (March 6).

Galway Community Acupuncture: a new model of practice

Thu, Mar 04, 2010

Galway Community Acupuncture is a community centred healing practice with the aim to make acupuncture more accessible by making it more affordable. What distinguishes this model of practice is that treatments are offered in a comfortable and relaxed group setting.

UHG urged to appoint new hospital manager after damning report

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the health authority to fasttrack the appointment of a new manager for University Hospital Galway in the wake of the facility’s poor showing in the HSE’s latest league tables.

The times we live in

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Ya know the world is not right when Irish politicians are resigning on the grounds of principle...without any video or audio evidence...when the Greens are the ones who are caught out being unlawful...when Tiger Woods is pretending to be human and is saying sorry to everyone but the scores of mistresses...when Willie O’Dea is giving out about people kicking a man when he is down. Ya know the world is not right when Mayo beat Galway...twice...in a row...without even trying. Ya know the world isn’t right when the Galway footballers are dying their hair blond...and they not even knowing Michael Jackson. Ya know the world isn’t right when hurling fans in Tipperary hand the GAA €150,000 on a snowy Saturday night, be tormented for an hour or so, and then head off home into the night without seeing any hurling or without getting any of the cash back. Twice. Will we get a receipt? Will we f... ya know the world isn’t right when Galway club hurlers have to go to the High Court to get a victory...Ya know the world is not right when ya realise how long it took for Cheryl to realise that Ashley is a twat. And we all knowing that for years. Honest. Ya know the world is not right when ya realise that it’s costing the Guards €10,000 to police rag week in Galway and leave a state of the art policing buggy in the Square to do the job when criminals are shooting each other across the country... Why don’t they just give the money to charity and tell all the students to stay at home...ya know the world isn’t right when despite all the policing, rag week students behave themselves...ya know the world isn’t right when Enda Kenny is trying to find himself and then be that person...and then finding out that that person is a cross combining Roy Keane, Ena Sharples and Arnold Schwarzenegger...ya know the world isn’t right when Jedward tickets sell out in 15 minutes which is probably 12 minutes more than the material they have...ya know the world is not right when the last connection with Wanderly Wagon goes to his eternal reward and when the first person you meet (on ‘Judge’ment day) in the afterlife is Bosco...ya know the world is not right when ya hear that an unelected Green can tweet us all into distraction...when the Bishops are asking us for their forgiveness...when Thalimidomide survivors can’t even get a grant to help lock their homes while a directly elected mayor will have a staff of 30...ya know the world is not right when Ronan O’Gara writes to newspapers to complain about them complaining about him...ya know the world is not right when the Irish bobsleigh team don’t come last in the Winter Olympics and when Irishman Mikey Graham is still in the running to win Skating on Ice...ya know the world isn’t right when Michael O’Leary comes over all patriotic and caring...So how could we be anyway but the way we are?

Ballinasloe included in flood risk study

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Ballinasloe will be included in the major new Shannon Flood Risk Management Study to be commissioned by the Office of Public Works in the summer.

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