Low paid workers should be entitled to the pandemic bonus payment, says McNelis

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Low paid workers who were on the frontlines during the worst of the Covid crisis, but who were not healthcare workers, should be entitled to the pandemic bonus payment.

Upgrade for footpaths in Headford

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Upgrade and improvement works to footpaths in Headford will be carried out after the town received €140,000 under the Active Travel Funding Allocations 2022.

Cheevers demands start date for building new toilets at Ballyloughane

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

A start date for construction of the new toilets and changing facilities at Ballyloughane beach needs to be made now by the Galway City Council.

Council unable to confirm if refurbishment work on tennis courts will be done ahead of summer

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

The Galway City Council is unable to confirm whether refurbishment work on some tennis courts will be completed ahead of the summer.

Funding for drainage works in Clonfert

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

A total of €90,000 in funding has been approved for the Galway County Council to begin works opening and cleaning the open drain network at Clonfert, near Ballinasloe.

Flexible and remote working needs to be facilitated by employers

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

In the early days of the pandemic, it was not unusual for people to suggest that 'afterwards' things would not - could not - go back to the old normal.

Local business leaders raise €253,814 for COPE Galway’s homeless service

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Fifty Galway business leaders have raised an incredible €253,814 from their participation in COPE Galway’s 10th annual business leaders’ Sleep Out over 12 hours on Shop Street last December.

NUI Galway and broadcasters to provide online course in journalism for TY students

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Transition Year students in Irish-medium schools are being offered a unique insight to journalism in an online course with some of Ireland’s finest television, radio and digital journalists and broadcasters. NUI Galway, Nuacht RTÉ and TG4 are running the week-long Iriseoirí an lae Amárach programme in conjunction with An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) and the Department of Education. Over 400 students registered for the inaugural course in 2021.

The course is aimed at students in post-primary schools in Gaeltacht and other Irish-medium post-primary schools and will be held via Zoom between 1–3 March 2022.

EasyFees.ie to save Galway property buyers €3.5 million in 2022

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Galway property buyers are set to save up to a combined €3.5 million* in legal and estate agent fees annually through a brand-new service, Easyfees.ie, which launched today. The new service combines the lowest solicitor and estate agent fees all into one package, offering a hassle-free alternative to customers, saving time and money as they go through the property-buying process.

Fifty years of excellence at Devon Park Dental

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Devon Park Dental situated in the prime location of Lower Salthill proudly celebrates 50 years in business this month. It was founded in 1972 by Dr Michael Dunleavy, and the excellence continued when, in 2005 on Dr Dunleavy’s retirement, Dr Jason McEvaddy took over the practice.

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Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Appeal for witnesses to fatal motorway collision
Gardaí at Oranmore are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision on Thursday last, January 20.

Gardaí at Oranmore are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision on Thursday last, January 20.

Keep focus on children and we can be the new Amsterdam

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

People you see cycling along our stunning Galway Bay coast tend to be brave and are mostly male, middle-aged and able-bodied. We gave out free rechargeable bike lights one evening last week on the Prom and not one woman cycled by. You do not see the people who would like to cycle but feel frightened by high traffic volumes and parking, and the ever-present threat of being ‘doored - women, teenagers, disabled people, children.

Pollnarooma Residents Association opposing the temporary cycleway

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

The Pollnarooma Residents Association is opposing the temporary cycleway in Salthill.

Online and face-to-face support for bereaved parents

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Anam Cara, the bereavement support group for parents, will hold its first local face-to-face meeting since the pandemic began in Galway on Wednesday February 2. The event will take place at the Clayton Hotel, Briarhill at 7.15pm.

Greater flexibility with employees can change the way we live and work

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

It is hard to believe that we are just five or six weeks short of the second anniversary of when the vast majority of the country’s employees were sent home and instructed to carry out their duties from their kitchen. This was often done through poor broadband with little notice. It was done at a time when employees had to share this poor broadband with schoolchildren who had been evacuated from their classrooms and forced to learn instead at the kitchen table.

County towns and villages to be revitalised, as Council launches Broadband Connection Point network

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Galway County Council and the Government of Ireland have announced the launch of Galway County’s Broadband Connection Point network. At present 12 BCPs under the Connected Communities Initiative are live in the county with a further 10 to follow.

Connected Communities is an initiative of the Government of Ireland, in partnership with Vodafone and NBI to provide high-speed internet access at publicly accessible sites for remote work, study, community/digital skills training, filling of forms and applications and a host of other digitally enabled services and amenities.

Galway’s rivers need the public’s help

Wed, Jan 26, 2022

Galway City Community Network and the Local Authority Waters Programme are hosting an event on the new draft River Basin Management Plan for Ireland, how it will impact Galway, and how the public can have its say on the plan.

Galway online meeting to focus on sexism and misogyny

Tue, Jan 25, 2022

An open, online meeting, of the socialist feminist organisation, ROSA, takes place this Thursday at 7.30pm, focussing on sexism, oppression, and misogyny.

Pressure on beds creates long delays for ED patients

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Patients attending University Hospital Galway's emergency department (ED) who are waiting to be admitted to a bed on a ward, continue to experience long delays again this week due to pressure on bed capacity.

Calls for longer opening hours for Ballinasloe running track

Thu, Jan 20, 2022

Calls are being made for the Galway County Council running track in Dunlo, Ballinasloe, to have its hours of operation extended from 7am to 9pm and for it to open on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

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