Save money with a free financial review from Murray Financial Services

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Murray Financial Services was established by Adrian Murray who has more than a decade’s experience in financial services.

Fancy a taste of Galway towns in the 1990s?

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Loughrea-native photographer/videographer Aengus Devine worked and lived in London and the US for many years. On his trips home on holidays, he used his cameras to shoot insightful and beautiful videos of towns around the county.

­Through the glass darkly

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Sometime before 1905, John Bagnell Bury, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, son of a Church of Ireland clergyman, and already one of the most distinguished historians of his time, turned his attentions to St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.

Bury’s historical focus was Classical Greece and Rome. In 1888 he had published A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (AD395 to AD800), and he was at this time researching another study of this period.

Getting to know...

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY?
I remember spending a lot of time on the beach as a child with my brothers. That is my earliest memory.

Galway choir changing the definition of choral singing

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

A Galway-based singing group, RISE Choir is changing the definition of choral singing by celebrating diversity, empowering different voice types, and promoting positivity and connectivity through singing.

Lyons welcomes Clybaun Heights public lighting upgrade

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Galway City Council has appointed a contractor in conjunction with Electric Skyline to undertake ground works and install a complete new public lighting in Clybaun Heights.

Galway City West and Knocknacarra councillor Donal Lyons said that in mid February, the public lighting had to be turned off in Clybaun Heights due to a serious fault on the network.

Walk in Pink for breast cancer research this Sunday

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

This Sunday, Mother’s Day, ‘Walk in Pink’ takes place for the National Breast Cancer Research Institute. The charity is asking everyone to help make a difference for the many Irish women suffering from breast cancer by taking part.

Crime World show coming to Galway

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Crime World, the weekly Sunday World podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld hosted by investigative journalist Nicola Tallant, is coming to life with Omertà: A journey into the dark heart of Ireland’s criminal underworld – and the murders that shatter its sacred code.

The good news for fans of real life crime podcasts in the west is that Ms Tallant will bring the show to Galway this summer and tickets go on sale this morning Thursday March 16.

Saw Doctors to rock Tuam this summer with reprise of West’s Awake concert

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

In 1991, on the crest of their wave, The Saw Doctors played an iconic concert in their hometown at Tuam Stadium that has stayed in the memory of their fans. In the interim, there have been many calls for the gig to be repeated — and finally it is going to happen.

The Saw Doctors will play the exclusive Irish ‘homecoming’ show in Tuam on Saturday August 19 in a Big Top marquee in the grounds of St. Jarlath’s College.

Sentencing of former Christian Brother represents ‘end of 50-year journey’ for city businessman

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

A 77-year-old former Christian Brother has been sentenced to 27 months in prison with the final seven months suspended after being convicted of the abuse of a schoolboy 50 years ago.

Pitch battle as Rahoon-Newcastle hail Salthill-Knocknacarra move as ‘violating spirit of the GAA’

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Two long-established GAA clubs in the city areas are at loggerheads over plans by one to construct a state of the art playing facilities to within a short distance of the other.

Spring into St Patrick’s weekend with special musical concert

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Oranmore soprano Helen Hancock will present The Lark in the Clear Air in the Mick Lally Theatre this Saturday March 18 at 8pm.

Hancock will be joined by Dublin-based pianist Annalisa Monticelli and clarinettist Berginald Rash to present the programme which will feature Schubert’s Shepherd on a Rock along with Arnold Cooke’s Songs of Innocence, both for soprano, clarinet and piano. In addition Strauss and Clara Schumann songs for soprano and piano will feature, as will Paul Reade’s Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite for clarinet and piano. A selection of Irish airs will round off the evening.

Have your spake at Speak Outs in Galway City and Gort

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

What’s wrong with Galway? What’s right with it? University of Galway’s UrbanLab invites members of the public to share their thoughts through a series of Speak Outs in Galway City and Gort. These Speak Outs offer an opportunity to explore the question, ‘How can we make better places?’. People who wish to present at the Speak Outs are asked to give a short five minute talk on a local issue of their choice.

The events are being organised by UrbanLab Galway which is a home for collaborative research into placemaking, place development and the future of Galway in particular. Dr Mark Rainey, a member of UrbanLab Galway, states that ‘The Speak Outs allow people to have their voices heard on local development issues. Citizen engagement is crucial when we imagine the future of Galway and the wider region’.

University of Galway appoints new Traveller Education Officer

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

University of Galway has appointed its second ever full-time Traveller Education Officer to lead on the recruitment of and support students from the Irish Traveller community.

New technology will enable Tuam exhumation to match to wider group of relations

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Relatives as distant as half nieces and half nephews will be able to be matched to remains recovered in the exhumation at the Tuam mother and baby homes, as €4m worth of state of the art DNA technology is to be acquired by forensic investigators.

Connolly calls for urgent action to protect fish stocks

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Deputy Catherine Connolly has called on the Government to take urgent action to protect fish stocks within the six nautical mile zone and to provide for the sustainability of our indigenous inshore fishing community.

Highlighting the challenge of living with an acquired brain injury

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

by Dr. Denise O’Dwyer, Principal Psychologist, National Learning Network (NLN) and Ciara Hennigan, Senior Instructor, Quest Brain Injury Services, Galway.

Learning to live with the impact of ABI presents significant challenges even in the best of circumstances (Jumisko et al, 2005). Survivors may suffer chronic impairment across cognitive, physical and psycho-social domains (Wilkie et al, 2021). There is a general consensus among practitioners in favour of a community based holistic model of neuro-rehabilitation (Prigitano, 1999), which considers the dynamic relationship between a person and their environment. The holistic model of rehabilitation, examines the psychological, social, cognitive and physical impacts of the injury on a person, as well as the reciprocal relationship between these domains (Ben-Yishay & Diller, 2011).

Ros na Rún to broadcast 2,000th episode tonight

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

Long running Galway based Irish language TV drama series, Ros na Rún will broadcast its 2000th episode on the eve of St Patrick’s Day, Thursday, March 16 at 8:30 on TG4.

‘Literally no place for tenants to go’ says Threshold at Féile Housing Festival

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

A first of its kind housing festival, Féile Housing, took place in the city last weekend, looking at the realities of the current housing emergency and possible solutions over the two-day event.

Editorial

Thu, Mar 16, 2023

On this day three years ago, all our worlds turned upside down. All of those things that we were told were previously impossible suddenly became possible and we were thrown headfirst into a sort of life for the guts of the next two years. In that time, we gave up everything we held sacred. Freedoms were curtailed, lifestyles were changed; the way we viewed each other was altered; the suspicions grew.

And for a while it was a novelty, this new way of being restricted. The idea that we were being conscripted into a way of living was new to us all. The 5km walks, the €9 meals, the safe distance at which to converse, the new decorum when walking on the footpaths.

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