Rock with Karma

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

Karma is launching their new Rockband competition on Sunday June 14, with a chance to win four premium tickets for U2 live in Croke Park. The time has come to unleash your wannabe rock star with the help of Rockband and the PS3. Competitors can register teams of four with Karma and be in with the chance to win tickets to see U2. The highest Rockband score every Sunday will go forward to the final on July 12 to battle it out where Karma’s true Rockband and U2 ticket winners will be announced. To register a team contact [email protected] or phone 091 500 330. Also not to be missed is the ‘Summer solstice party’ on Sunday June 21 with summer tattoos, tarot card reader, fire jugglers, and dancers. There will also be a pre-party in the Skeff bar. For more information visit www.karma.ie

Hanna’s House to hold security seminar

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

Hanna’s House, the feminist peace building organisation, is holding a seminar entitled ‘Women’s right to security in the home, locally and globally’ on June 12 in the Menlo Park Hotel.

Two western swine flu sufferers returned from New York

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

An adult male and a child - the first swine flu cases in the west - recently returned from New York, it was confirmed this week.

Museum builds currach for raffle

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

The Galway City Museum has hired the help of expert boat builders Pat Ó Cualáin and Patrick Flaherty to construct a traditional Connemara style currach over a three-day period.

Family fun day in Salthill on Sunday

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

A Family Fun Day in association with Failte Salthill and Mykidstime.ie will take place on the Salthill Promenade on Sunday.

Volunteers needed for hospice fundraiser

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

Galway Hospice Foundation is seeking volunteers to help raise vital funds for the organisation next week.

Noone says worries over flooding in Claregalway are not being addressed

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

Claregalway residents are up in arms over serious flooding concerns that are not being addressed, according to Fianna Fáil election candidate, Malachy Noone.

Oranmore man cycles across Ireland in memory of brother who died from leukaemia

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

Oranmore man Niall Bishop will take to the road with 17 friends on Saturday to cycle 213 kilometres across Ireland in one day in a tribute to his late brother David.

Election is missing the ‘youth factor’

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

The upcoming election is missing the “youth factor”, that’s according to the Galway based national youth organisation Spunout.ie which says that many young people may not even vote tomorrow (Friday).

New direct bus routes for Knocknacarra, says Hanley

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

New direct radial bus routes are coming on stream for Knocknacarra, it was announced this week.

Former PD candidate backs Fine Gael Frank Fahy

Thu, Jun 04, 2009

Former Progressive Democrat candidate Gary Creaven has urged all his supporters to give Fine Gael Galway City East candidate Frank Fahy their number one vote.

Mr Creaven, who was the last candidate to be eliminated in both of the last two local elections says Mr Fahy is the candidate who most represents the same views and ideas for Galway as he does.

Visitor numbers expected to swell for weekend of Volvo festivities

Thu, May 28, 2009

Galway is preparing itself for an influx of thousands of visitors this Bank Holiday weekend. as theVolvo Ocean Race party continues apace.

Jobs fear at Dunnes Stores

Thu, May 28, 2009

The Galway Advertiser has learned that voluntary redundancies have been sought from Dunnes Stores staff in two city outlets.

Witness appeal following burglaries

Thu, May 28, 2009

Galway gardai are seeking the public’s help following a number of burglaries throughout the city and surrounding areas.

Now what for the Church?

Thu, May 28, 2009

We’ve had a week now to come to terms with The Ryan Report. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warned us to expect the worst, but even so, the scale of the cruelty, neglect, and abuse - physical, emotional, and sexual - documented in the pages of this report will change forever the way the Church is viewed in this country. That those in a position of care to the most vulnerable members of society - those whom the Irish Constitution singled out for particular concern - could have inflicted the immediate pain and suffering, not to mention the long-term emotional consequences that those abused have carried with them into maturity, is terrible enough. That they acted as they did in the name of the Christian faith, whose founder took the child’s trust as a metaphor for humanity’s trust in God, can only be described as blasphemy.

By accident and design, Irish sailors are on top of the world

Thu, May 28, 2009

On Monday the public will have a rare opportunity to hear some of the Volvo Ocean sailors’ life stories.

By accident and design, Irish sailors are on top of the world

Thu, May 28, 2009

On Monday the public will have a rare opportunity to hear some of the Volvo Ocean sailors’ life stories.

Man grabbed by throat and punched while in his car

Thu, May 28, 2009

A 24 year old man who grabbed a man by his throat and punched him a number of times through the open window of a car, was before Ballina District Court this week.

Trevor Murphy, Horsevalley, Headford, Galway, pleaded guilty to the section two assault on Jerome O’Dowd (21) in Diamond’s Yard Car Park on November 7 2008.

Call to develop special memorial park in city to abused children

Thu, May 28, 2009

A local city councillor is calling on the Sisters of Mercy and Christian Brothers to join forces and donate lands at Taylor’s Hill for a special memorial park for children abused in State run institutions in Galway.

Use Local Elections for a referendum on outer bypass, urges Fahey

Thu, May 28, 2009

Galway voters should make the upcoming local elections a referendum on the city outer bypass, according to Fianna Fáil TD and chairman of the Oireachtas Transport Committee, Frank Fahey.

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