Farrell demands better planning on Renville Road

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

“Is a fatality necessary before anything is done about dangerous junctions in Oranmore?” This is the question being posed by Labour’s Oranmore candidate Josette Farrell.

Salthill Hotel - for the special day you deserve

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

Your wedding deserves the perfect setting, one that offers a truly unrivalled mix of location, service and facilities. Located on Salthill promenade with breathtaking views of Galway bay and the Clare hills, The Salthill Hotel makes the perfect venue for your perfect day.

Obituary Brother Fidelis James O’ Connell

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

The Patrician Congregation is mourning one of “nature’s finest gentlemen,” the late Brother Fidelis James O’Connell.

Lyons’ call for election poster ban gains support

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

Galway must look its best during the Volvo Ocean Race and if politicians care about how the city will look to the world during May, they will voluntarily agree to no election posters anywhere in the city.

Listen to St Patrick’s autobiography

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

While many of the legends about St Patrick are well known, such as his banishing snakes from Ireland, it is less well known that he wrote an autobiography.

Volunteers sought for world’s number one marathon

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

Local heart charity Croí is seeking volunteers to take part in the ultimate charity challenge - the New York City Marathon on Sunday Nov 1.

Loughrea St Patrick’s Day parade

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

Coiste Fhéile Pádraig in Loughrea is inviting the local community to attend the St Patrick’s Day parade which will start at 1pm.

Woman fined €650 for forged passport

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

A woman was fined €650 for possession of a forged passport despite insisting that she did not know her uncle had fooled her and that the passport office at home in Zimbabwe, which has a 300,000 backlog, had run out of the proper paper.

The heart of banking regulation

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

The Great Depression of 1929 is the only economic event comparable to our current morass. A post mortem study in the 1930s into the cause of the Wall Street crash concluded that it was due to deregulation of the financial sector.

The hacks are already creating the mayoral pacts

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

Although nominations have yet to close for June’s Local Elections, attentions are already being focused on the likely results and the potential mayoral pacts that may be created post June.

Most support a ban on election posters but making it a reality will be difficult

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

At Monday’s Galway City Council meeting, Independent Cllr Donal Lyons will call for a “voluntary ban on all political posters in the city area for the forthcoming Local and European elections”.

If the political poster goes, what will replace it?

Thu, Mar 12, 2009

There is a growing movement - or, more accurately, a growing feeling - that the day of the election poster is coming to an end. If it is though, what might replace it?

Hell’s kitchen — city chef assaulted by his toughest critic

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A chef at a city centre fast-food restaurant received an unwelcome visit from one of his toughest critics yet — an abusive patron who after being served food entered the kitchen and assaulted him.

No election for Towers

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

Rev Patrick Towers, the former rector of St Nicholas Collegiate Church, has announced that he will not be standing for election as a Green candidate in June’s Local Elections.

Brace yerself for the crazy taxes

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

Brace yerselves. Tie down everything because when next month comes and April Fool’s Day flies through faster than a flasher in a turnstile, we are set to be royally shafted by the Government in a whole series of crazy new taxes designed to make sure that we keep filling the giant hole in our finances with a watering can.

'Menace' burglar jailed for twenty months

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A Galway man, described as a menace to society, was sentenced to 20 months at Galway District Court yesterday for his involvement in a number of burglaries in which laptops were taken.

Advertiser confirmed as runaway leader in circulation race

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

The Galway Advertiser has increased its lead in the local newspaper circulation race, pulling well ahead of its local rivals, according to the latest distribution and sales figures, published by the UK-based Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC)

The newspaper which has the highest weekly circulation of any regional newspaper in Ireland was this week confirmed as the runaway leader in the circulation race in Galway.

Statue to women of Magdalen Laundry to be unveiled on Sunday

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A statue in remembrance of the women who had to endure life in the Magdalen Laundry in Galway will be unveiled the weekend.

Man dashed across race course after taxi flee dash attempt

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A man who had hired a taxi to bring him and his family from Dublin to Galway attempted to avoid paying the €250 fare by bringing the driver around the town to confuse him and then fleeing across the race course, the Galway District Court heard yesterday.

Nuisance caller who made 1,400 calls remanded in custody after plea for help

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A Connemara man who allegedly made 1,400 menacing and abusive phone calls to a number of health care workers and rape crisis centres has been remanded in custody for the purpose of being assessed by the Central Mental Hospital as soon as possible.

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