Galwayman upfront about gambling addiction

Thu, Mar 13, 2025

The Rutland’s new Gambling and Gaming Specific Outpatient Programme is a HSE-supported initiative designed to target the estimated 1-in-30 Irish adults struggling with gambling addiction.

11.2% increase in domestic abuse calls made to Galway Garda stations in the last year, says Farrell

Thu, Feb 13, 2025

The number of domestic abuse calls made in County Galway has increased from 2,656 to 2,955 in the last year — an 11.2% increase in the county.

Galway bookmarked in history of radio

Thu, Feb 13, 2025

Thirty years ago this month, I became a company director for the first and only time in my life. I was 19.

Comms blackout means rural GP calls down 75 per cent

Thu, Jan 30, 2025

WestDoc, the weekend GP service, received a fraction of the urgent care calls it expected from rural areas of County Galway in the three days after Storm Éowyn.

Ross Lake Hotel arson remains unsolved

Thu, Jan 23, 2025

The former hotel was set alight late on the evening of December 16, 2023, soon after it emerged that part of the empty building was being fitted out for accommodation for homeless asylum seekers. Videos of the intense fire went viral on social media.

A forgotten Claddagh rescue

Thu, Dec 12, 2024

During a recent visit to the Isle of Man, I was struck by a substantial monument in Douglas, commemorating a maritime rescue in 1830. Aware of another heroic rescue in Galway the same year, I realised both took place during the same storm.

SocDems asked Síle Seoige to contest election

Thu, Nov 14, 2024

Before Fianna Fáil unveiled Gráinne Seoige in September as its celebrity candidate to replace outgoing Connemara stalwart Éamon Ó Cuív TD, the Social Democrats had already been in talks with her younger sister, fellow broadcaster Síle Seoige, initially about running for the European parliament, and later in a possible autumn general election.

Bibi banned from Galway

Thu, Oct 17, 2024

In a unanimous vote of all 16 councillors present in City Hall last Monday, a motion was carried that the City Council will not welcome any future visits to Galway by Netanyahu, Israel’s president Isaac Herzog, or ministers and ambassadors of the current administration after its military incursions into Lebanon.

Farrell comes out swinging for PAC chair

Thu, Oct 17, 2024

The 34-year-old from Mervue has been nominated by the largest opposition party to replace current Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chair, Brian Stanley TD, who resigned from Sinn Féin last weekend, claiming the party subjected him to a “kangaroo court” after allegations of misconduct.

Connolly ‘aghast’ at Irish Water

Thu, Oct 10, 2024

An Taisce is the organisation which first brought pipe survey reports into the public domain last month, and Catherine Connolly TD (Ind) also railed against amendments to the Planning Act proposed this week, including one to remove the heritage body as a ‘prescribed body’ under the current planning rules.

6,000 deer culled in Galway last year

Thu, Oct 03, 2024

Data released by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to the Irish Deer Commission shows 78,175 wild deer were culled nationally in the 12-month period up to February last year, compared to 55,008 in 2022.

Seoige and Connolly selected as Cheevers ponders future over ‘whispering campaign’

Thu, Sep 12, 2024

Galway City East Councillor Alan Cheevers claims a whispering campaign about his health was waged to dissuade delegates from voting for his candidacy as a Dáil hopeful.

Tourist tax could rake in millions for city

Thu, Sep 12, 2024

Charging hotel guests across the city a one Euro per night tourism tax could net an estimated extra €2 million per year for the city’s finances.

Eight Galway schools named in abuse report

Thu, Sep 05, 2024

Five primary schools and three secondary schools in Galway are included in a list of 308 institutions across the country where allegations of serious abuse have been recorded.

Foreign investors are slow to look West, survey shows

Thu, Aug 15, 2024

Only six per cent of multinational companies planning to invest in Ireland are looking at the West, according to a new survey, despite strong economic growth and overall improving sentiment amongst foreign investors into Ireland.

Lettermullen man charged with Taoiseach threats promises to stay off social media

Thu, Aug 15, 2024

A 48-year-old Lettermullen man has promised to stay off social media after being charged with threatening to kill or cause serious harm to the Taoiseach and his family.

Carna turbines threaten global research

Thu, Jul 18, 2024

Corio, an energy generation firm backed by Australian financier Macquarie, is poised to lodge a maritime planning application for a €1.5 billion development of offshore wind turbines on Sceirde Rocks, around 5km southwest of Carna, near the historic pilgrimage destination of St MacDara’s Island.

Top US judge spotted in Galway

Thu, Jul 18, 2024

When you are the ultimate judicial authority in the United States overseeing a supreme court which just controversially ruled that a US president is immune from criminal prosecution, where do you go to lay low while the dust settles?

Ring Road hearing expected in autumn

Thu, Jul 11, 2024

An oral hearing to discuss the environmental impact of the proposed N6 Galway city ring road should happen as soon as September, according to council officials.

One-in-ten mental health beds ‘un-operational’ across West

Thu, Jul 04, 2024

Hospitals in Galway city are “particularly tricky” places to treat acutely mentally unwell patients because of a lack of appropriate beds, according to a leading psychiatrist.

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