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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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).
Read more ...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.
The clinic is open plan with several recliners in a large, soothing space. There is also a private area for the initial consultation. A community acupuncture clinic practice is one where the practitioner treats more than one patient at a time, which means the cost can be significantly lower.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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?
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Stop dismantling health service Government warned at Galway meeting
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says the campaign by public sector workers to reverse the pay cuts in the Budget must also make sure that the dismantling of the public health service is stopped.
Read more ...Don’t leave boxes and bags outside bottle banks says McNelis
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
People leaving bottles in the city’s bottle banks should not leave behind boxes and bags that have been used to carry the glass, but should carry it home.
Read more ...Danish man dies suddenly while working on Loughrea wind turbine
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A man has died suddenly while working on a wind turbine in south Galway.
Read more ...Bang a drum and raise money for Haiti
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
On Sunday more than 100 Tribal Spirit Drummers from across Ireland will gather in NUI, Galway in a fundraising event for earthquake relief in Haiti.
The drummers will play rhythms and songs from Haiti and Africa from 4.30pm to 6pm, and will be the culmination of a day of family events in the university’s student centre.
Read more ...Search for the elusive Nash after daredevil graffiti artist tattoos city
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Under the cloak of darkness in the early hours of Sunday morning, a person known by his/her paintwork as Nash scaled an incredible height to decorate the gable end of Garvey’s bar and hotel on Eyre Square with graffiti.
Read more ...Galway city recognised as hub for medical technology industry by global organisation
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Galway has been recognised as the hub for the medical technology industry. TOPRA, the global organisation for regulatory affairs professionals, has selected the city for its first Irish-based training programme in medical technology regulatory affairs.
Read more ...Winner of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh to be announced tonight
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Final preparations are currently under way for the award ceremony of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh which is to take place tonight at the Glenlo Abbey Hotel at 6.30pm.
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