Learn to knit with Knit One Purl One

Thu, Jan 22, 2009

Following on from their hugely successful knitting classes before Christmas, Niamh and Anne O’Máille of O’Máille’s, High Street, are organising more classes beginning next week.

Fears for Nortel jobs after company files for bankruptcy protection

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

News that Canadian telecommunications giant Nortel has filed for creditor protection has raised fears for the future of 300 jobs at the company’s Galway facility.

By shopping local, we can stop our communities crumbling

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

I met someone the other day who told me wide-eyed that she had never met anyone who didn’t have a job. In the two and a bit decades that she’d been on this earth, people losing their jobs just weren’t known to her. And that is how it has been for many people who have grown up seeing jobs as disposable as weekly contact lenses. If it was irritating you, you just flung it away and tried another. But a harsh reality is about to set in for us all which will see us all soon know a lot of people without jobs. Or be without jobs ourselves.

The news that came from Toronto last night that Nortel had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has seen fears grew for the security of the 300 jobs at its plant in Mervue. Limerick and Waterford have had their days and it is all moving so close to home. Already thousands in many industries across Galway have lost their work in the past three or four months and that trend is set to continue as we experience an economic whirlwind the likes of which we have never seen before.

Morris Minor to be raffled in aid of Galway Lifeboat Station

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

A Galway family is raffling a restored vintage Morris Minor to raise funds for Galway RNLI in memory of a young couple who lost their lives in a ferry disaster 13 years ago.

Controversial historian David Irving to speak at NUIG?

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

David Irving, the highly controversial British historian who spent three years in an Austrian prison under Holocaust Denial Legislation, may be speaking at NUI, Galway’s Literary and Debating Society in March.

Not too late to get the flu vaccine — Treacy

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

It is not too late for people who may be at risk of catching the flu to get the flu vaccine from their local GP, Dep Noel Treacy has pointed out this week. The east Galway TD has urged anyone at risk of contracting flu to get the vaccine as soon as possible.

“The numbers of people visiting their GP with flu like symptoms is significantly up on this time last year,” Deputy Treacy said. “It is particularly prevalent in the 15 to 64 age group. It is not too late to get the flu vaccination, and medical experts are highly recommending anyone at risk of contracting the flu to get the vaccination as soon as possible.”

Student show to raise money for the Galway Hospice

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Six student bands will play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday and 20 per cent of the profits from the show will go towards the Galway Hospice.

Can Oranmore go from blue to red?

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

The Labour Party will field two candidates in Oranmore in the hope of taking at least one seat here in June’s Local Elections. However will the party be able to overcome Fine Gael’s dominance in the ward?

Woo your Valentine at breast cancer fundraiser

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Dance the night away with your loved one on St Valentine’s night at the National Breast Cancer Research Institute’s annual ball at The Ardilaun and help fund breast cancer research.

Mary Hoade to run in Tuam ward

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

After many months of deliberation, Cllr Mary Hoade will follow her core vote into the Tuam Ward and run there as one of at least three Fianna Fáil candidates in June’s Local Election.

In June 2008 the Local Electoral Area Boundary Review Committee redrew the Oranmore and Tuam electoral boundaries. As a result, the Annaghdown, Ballinaduff, Headford, Killeany, and Killursa areas - which have a total population 5,173 - were transferred from the Oranmore ward into the Tuam ward.

Fahey calls for office to deal with public service reform

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

If the number of junior ministers is to be abolished, it should only be done as part of a root and branch reform of Government and the public service, according to Galway West TD Frank Fahey.

Dyke Road car park to close temporarily this weekend

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

The Galway City Council has announced that the Dyke Road Car Park is to close temporarily throughout this weekend.

Mustard restaurant moves to The Bridge Mills

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Mustard restaurant has relocated from Middle Street to its new home in the space in The Bridge Mills building.

One injured in three-vehicle pile up on Curragh Line

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

One man received serious leg injuries in a three-vehicle pile-up which saw the Curragh Line closed to traffic for four hours on Tuesday.

Boat stolen from Oranmore

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Gardaí have appealed for information following the theft of a 16-foot boat from a car park in Oranmore last weekend.

Woman injured in city road accident

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses following an accident in which a woman was struck by a car in the city centre.

Quinn is confident he will be FF’s man

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

While Fianna Fáil has yet to find a running mate for Peter Keane in Galway City West, the main attention of Fianna Fáilers and Galway political anoraks is focused on who the party will choose in Galway City Central.

Suspended sentence for taxi fare dodger

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

A Roscommon man, with psychological difficulties, received a suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week for failing to pay a taxi driver €350 after hiring him to go to Cork and back.

Parties chase Ollie to get on ticket

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are anxious to find candidates in the run up to the local elections and are canvassing a number of personalities.

St Nicholas’ Annual Ecumenical Service

Thu, Jan 15, 2009

St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church will hold this year’s Annual Ecumenical Service for Galway this Sunday at 7.30pm.

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