Man rams into taxi and Garda car in high speed chase through city
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A non-national who rammed into the back of taxi before leading gardai on a dangerous high speed chase through the city has been jailed for 18 months and disqualified from driving for 10 years.
Read more ...Parents and teenagers urged to learn more dangers of drugs
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Tuam Joint Policing Committee will host a drugs awareness information night at the Mercy Secondary School from 8pm to 9.30pm on Tuesday.
Read more ...Table quiz to aid local heart charity
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A table quiz in aid of the local heart charity Croi will take place at the Huntsman on Tuesday at 8pm.
The quiz is sponsored by Cases Wine Warehouse – the owner of Cases’ Peter Boland will run the New York Marathon for Croi in November.
Read more ...Award winning missionary priest to visit city
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A benefit evening to raise funds for the PREDA Foundation will take place at the Western Hotel, Prospect Hill tonight (Thursday) at 9pm.
Read more ...‘Angry’ man fined for racial abuse of UHG cleaning staff
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A Galway man with a history of anger issues was fined €700 at Galway District Court this week for hurling abuse and “racial comments” at cleaning staff at University Hospital Galway.
Read more ...Man breaks jaw of ex-partner’s new boyfriend
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A man received a broken jaw after being violently assaulted by his girlfriend’s ex-partner who was ordered to pay €4,000 in compensation and narrowly escaped jail when he appeared at Galway District Court this week.
Read more ...St Nicholas’ coffee morning for Galway Hospice
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
St Nicholas Collegiate Church will be one of the many venues in Galway city this Saturday holding a coffee morning in aid of the Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Galway to host theatre festival next month
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Just when you thought Galway could not possibly come up with any more festivals, a new one is launched, and for theatre lovers it is sure to be a welcome one.
Read more ...Fashion show supporting the blind of Ireland
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A stylish autumn fashion show in aid of The National Council for the Blind of Ireland will be held in The Ardilaun hotel on September 23. Tickets for the night include a wine reception, entrance to the show, and inclusion in the draw for spot prizes at the end of the show. Tickets cost €35 each and all money raised from the show will go to NCBI.
Read more ...Go for a walk and raise funds for Age Action
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
The first memory walk for older people will take place between 11am and 2pm in Terryland Forest Park on Sunday September 28.
Read more ...Candlelight vigil and concert tonight to remember lives lost to suicide
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Galwegians who have lost their lives through suicide will be remembered at a special candlelight vigil and concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church tonight at 8pm.
Read more ...Galway’s first Culture Night takes place tomorrow
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Galway is well known as one of Ireland’s leading cultural centres but tomorrow from 6pm, it’s going to go all out to encourage everyone to sample the arts in the city with the Galway Culture Night.
Read more ...Don’t call 999, they’ll be dancing
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Galway people have been urged to be very very careful on October 3, because all of the city and county's emergency services will be out dancing.
Read more ...Woman to go on trial for harassment and nuisance calls
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
A 32-year-old Galway woman, charged with harassing two people over an eight and four month period and with making nuisance phone calls, has been sent forward for trial.
Read more ...New community centre opens in Athenry
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
The Cullairbaun Community House in Athenry will be officially opened today (Thursday September 18) to help and support the community in a wide range of areas.
Read more ...Fox Tutorial Centre plans to make maths fun
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Amidst the debate over poor Leaving Certificate mathematics results, Galway's new Fox Tutorial Centre vows to make maths fun for its students, and still get positive results.
Read more ...Who will survive the race in Galway City Central?
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
In horse racing parlance it could be said that contenders are in the dip but have not turned into the straight yet and, in what has been forecast as the most competitive of all Wards, Galway City Central should prove to be the mother of all gallops.
Read more ...Will Dana answer God’s calling and stand for Europe again?
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Perhaps it says something about Irish politicians and the Irish public’s attitude to the EU that not one mention has been made in recent times of next year’s European Elections.
Read more ...‘Status quo position’ on the economy and election strategies are ‘not acceptable’, Cowen tells Galwa
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
New strategies must be adopted on both the economy and in next year’s local elections as “the status quo position” and the old methods are no longer acceptable in the current climate. This was the message Taoiseach Brian Cowen delivered this week at his press conference in Galway.
Security was tight and highly visible at the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party think-in at the Clayton Hotel. Equally visible were the country’s leading Pol-Cors - eager to press the Taoiseach and his TDs on the economy, Lisbon, and Noel Grealish - and local councillors and prospective candidates, all eager to be make their presence felt for fear any of the top brass might forget them.
Read more ...Galway City Central is ‘ready made’ for a Quinn comeback
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
The new Galway City Central ward is “ready made for a Martin Quinn comeback” according to the former mayor who is seeking to be a Fianna Fáil candidate in the next local elections.
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