More than 2,000 Galwegians still waiting for passport applications to be processed

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

A total of 2,268 Galwegians are still waiting for their passport applications to be processed as the passport service deals with the Covid backlog and the recent surge in applications.

We need both hands on the stick to combat climate change

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

There are some battles in life that we enter with a half hearted desire to win. Conflicts that we deem as not mattering because we have not made the real connection between them and our lives. We have tended to do it with strife, with modern famine, with the abuses of human rights. That if it does not affect us really, that it is something we ought not get involved in. Until it comes to our own doorstep, we have a tendency to look away or move on. This week’s IPCC report on the impact of climate change and our role in creating it should act as a wake up call to the world…and when I say the world, I don’t mean the world out there, but the world around us.

We need to approach this with the hurling parlance of two hands on the stick. There is no point in half heartedly reaching with a limp wrist into the heat of battle knowing full well that the stick with be slapped away. We need to approach climate change like we are trying to win it. Not just for show. Not just for kudos for trying our best. We have a great interest in the impact of climate change because we live on a rock on one side of an exposed ocean. Our chin is set against the prevailing winds, our lives are dictated by the weather that we associate with our place. In recent times, we have seen the impact of all of this. Our coasts have been lashed, our gorse is burning, our streets and farms have been flooded and the rising oceans place our coastal places in peril unless we play our part fully, two hands on the stick, committed.

Italian brothers return to Aran to thank Coast Guard rescuers

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

Two Italian tourists who were rescued by an Irish Coast Guard crew when they were swept into the sea at Inis Mor two years ago returned to the island yesterday to reunite with the team who helped them.

Brothers Giovanni and Ricardo Zanon were swept into very rough seas while visiting Pol na bPeist, the Worm Hole, in February 2019.

Croi announces Mark Gantly as its new chairman

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

Croi, the heart and stroke charity has announced the appointment of Mark Gantly as chairman of its board of directors.

Home Instead announce creation of sixty jobs in Galway

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

Home Instead, Ireland’s largest private provider of home care services, this week announced the creation of 60 jobs in Galway.

The care company, which already has a 4,000-strong caregiver team working across every county in Ireland, is recruiting for 60 additional caregivers in Galway, as part of its recruitment of 1,000 additional caregivers, who will be hired across the country. Home Instead delivers essential home care to almost 7,000 clients across every county in Ireland, and has been building its caregiving team over the past 12 months, with 1,000 new roles also announced in 2020.

Wild Child celebration at Thoor Ballylee next week

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

This year Thoor Ballylee, the Galway home of poet laureate WB Yeats, will come alive for a ‘Wild Child’ celebration on August 18 for National Heritage Week.

Galway credit union member wins €20,000 in HSSCU draw

Thu, Aug 12, 2021

Galwaywoman Mai Connole has won a whopping €20,000 in the Health Services Staffs Credit Union’s (HSSCU’s) Member Prize Draw.

‘Pride is a chance to celebrate, but it is always twinned with protest’

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

“Pride has become that special time when we get to affirm our dignity and our equality, and increase our visibility. It’s in opposition to the shame and social stigma many of us grew up with.”

‘Pride is a chance to celebrate, but it is always twinned with protest’

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

“Pride has become that special time when we get to affirm our dignity and our equality, and increase our visibility. It’s in opposition to the shame and social stigma many of us grew up with.”

CO2 monitoring indoors to curb the spread of Covid 19

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Carbon dioxide is generated by the exhaled air from people, air that has been in close contact with lung tissue. Alongside CO2 the exhalation also contains tiny liquid droplets (aerosols) which can float in the air.

These droplets will contain any virus particles present in the lungs which can stay present in a room for several hours.High CO2 levels in a room mean there is a higher chance of transmission of a virus such as Covid 19 if an infected person is in the room. Transmission can happen over short distances and a way to help mitigate against the spread of infection can be implemented using CO2 monitors.CO2 monitors enable continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide concentrations in the air helping to control air quality. When the measured level of carbon dioxide rises above a threshold, an alarm is triggered, and appropriate actions can be taken to increase ventilation.

Campion Insurance office opened in Galway

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton TD, officially opened Campion Insurance office on 5 Merchant’s Road, Galway City last week.

Cairde Othair na Gaillimhe — supporting Galway hospitals

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Cairde Othair na Gaillimhe (Friends of Galway Patients) have launched a Fund Raising campaign to pay for urgently needed projects at GUH, Merlin Park and Portiuncula Hospital. This ongoing campaign may be supported by once off donations at www.cog.ie or by joining our Monthly Draw. (You can choose which hospital you wish to support) You can use the QR code below to enter.

The hospital service throughout the country has had a particularly challenging year. COVID -19 has been extremely difficult to deal with in all environments. In a hospital where you know the virus has being brought to you by the sick patients the issue of working with that hazard and preventing others spreading or catching the disease on a 24/7 basis would test anyone’s patience to say the least.

Loughrea Hotel and Spa to host wedding showcase

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

The multi-awardwinning Lough Rea Hotel and Spa is one of the most highly recommended and well known wedding venues in Galway, situated just outside the quaint town of Loughrea overlooking Loughrea Lake.

Canney concerned for school secretaries as Fórsa rejects ‘derisory’ offer

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Independent TD Sean Canney has called on the Government to immediately intercede and ensure that the Department of Education offer a realistic solutions to meet government commitment to end pay inequalities once and for all for schools secretaries and caretakers.

Peak to Peak Challenge to honour Enda Flaherty next week

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

On Saturday August 14, 25 cyclists along with a support crew will depart Peak townland in Claregalway in memory of Enda Flaherty who passed away in August 2020. The cycle will take them on the 80km route through Ballinrobe, Partry and Westport to the foot of Croagh Patrick where the group will then ascend the Reek. With that small challenge finished, they will then return to their bikes and make their way home to Peak once again.

Connemara West wishes GMIT success in application for university status

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

At its monthly Board meeting held last week, Connemara West wished Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) every success in its recent application as part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) to establish a technological university in Connacht/Ulster. The application was made to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD. In addition to GMIT, the Alliance comprises the Institute of Technology Sligo, and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

Joyous scenes as Moycullen man is ordained at Galway Cathedral

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

On a day when Moycullen celebrated the arrival of its Olympic medal into the parish, it had a second joyous event when local man John Gerard Action was ordaind a priest at Galway Cathedral.

Zina services — for care of all your devices

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Zina services — Phone repair and unlocking, printing and photocopying. Laptop and table repair buy and sell devices and accessories

Zina is located at Unit 8, Terryland Retail Park (above Paintrite), Galway 085-7558482 or email [email protected]

Galway County Council launches 2021 anti dog fouling campaign

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Educating and influencing the behaviour of dog owners regarding dog fouling will be to the fore as Galway County Council launch the new Anti-Dog Fouling Campaign ‘If They Poop, You Scoop!’. The campaign is set to firmly emphasise that dog fouling is the responsibility of the dog owner/walker and that they must clean up after their dog.

Galway-Dublin 20-X20 bus petition gathers over 1200 signatures

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

A petition launched by Sinn Féin to Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan calling for restoration of the Bus Éireann 20-X20 Expressway service, which stopped in Craughwell, Loughrea, Aughrim and Ballinasloe, has gathered over 1200 signatures so far, including both physical and online signatures.

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