After weeks of freeze-dried, it’s food, glorious food
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
The Green Dragon arrived in Capetown this week to be greeted by some familiar smells of Ireland.
Read more ...‘My strength stopped me from being raped,’ says city man
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A Galway city man had his €38,000 damages claim against the Justice Minister dismissed at the Circuit Civil Court on Tuesday.
Read more ...United back Galway’s youth development programme
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Galway United and the FAI are both backing the development of young players through the the Galway & District Football League.
Read more ...Voting genetically – it’s in the blood after all
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Why do we vote the way we do? Because we are stupid! That’s the verdict from Rick Shenkman who has written a book called Just how stupid are we – the truth about the American voter. The book concentrates on American politics and it does not just concentrate on George W Bush – the favourite bogey man for smart people. Rick Shenkman says that voters are voting in a stupid way always. People should weigh up all the issues and analyse policies and politicians, Shenkman says. Undoubtedly, this wise man would probably come to the same conclusion if he were writing about politics in Europe or Ireland. We would all be collectively stupid.
But elections are about the voice of the people and American journalist Bob Moser – an experienced guy out in the field – hits the practicalities on the head. He says that that ultimately, electoral politics do not come down to education but to winning votes, whether voters are well informed or not. His book revolves around political attitudes in the American South and how the Republicans have gained influence in these States for a long time past. The Republicans have done this, Moser says, by appealing to Southern whites who were put off “by the Democrats with long hair and liberal views that seemed to favour communist nations, racial integrations rules and opposition to prayer in schools”. And so for years the Democrats have lost out in the Southern states. But both these “experts” – as is often the way with experts - could be well of the mark. For they are forgetting something we always knew down by the seashore, up in the hills, and in the farmland of the west of Ireland. You have your politics in the blood! People were born Fianna Fáil or born Fine Gael – and they voted that way. Off course an odd stray would vote Labour…but you couldn’t account for deviant behaviour like that. The smart people like Rick Shenkman would probably say all that was stupid. Nobody was born to do anything and we should all have been educated into making rational and sensible decisions about voting. That’s where Shenkman shows up his folly. And some very smart guys have been finding this out. People’s brains are fairly well programmed as to how they will slant politically the day they are born; in fact they could be 50 per cent programmed. And is all this stupid talk? Certainly not.
Read more ...TV firms sue man for €9.2m over 'no fee' cable
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A legal action against a Galwayman who allegedly provided TV equipment allowing the public to get free cable channels is to be transferred to the Commercial Court.
Read more ...Mountain rescue team appeals for help
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Galway Mountain Rescue Team (GMRT) is appealing to the public to support its annual bucket collection which takes place on Saturday.
Read more ...Ebay worker declines drugs test offer to avoid conviction
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
An Ebay employee with hopes of one day travelling abroad declined to take a drugs test this week, an ironclad condition which had to be met before a judge would concede to a request of not imposing a conviction.
Twenty-one-year-old Adam Symes with an address at 64 Willowbrook Lawns, Celbridge, Kildare, was summoned to appear before Judge Gerard Haughton at Galway District Court last Monday for possession of drugs, namely cannabis, at the Spanish Arch on September 8, 2007.
Read more ...Galway consultant first in Ireland to use Da Vinci robot to carry out heart op
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Mr Fabio Bartolozzi, a Galway based hospital consultant - who is the only surgeon in Ireland to perform a cardiothoracic surgery procedure using the da Vinci robotic system - will be in the audience at the Late Late Show on Friday night to discuss it.
Read more ...City Hall has moral obligation to compensate tenants with token gesture says Cameron
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Pensioners, unemployed, and people with disabilities who used their own initiative to improve their living conditions without any contribution from the Galway City Council should not be neglected by the same body.
This is the view of Labour Cllr Billy Cameron. He proposed that tenants who had already installed their own central heating prior to the introduction of the council’s installation programme be compensated with a token financial gesture.
Read more ...Contract signed for the N18 Gort to Crusheen dual carriageway
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
On Tuesday the contract for the N18 Gort to Crusheen Dual Carriageway – Design Build Contract was signed in County Buildings in Prospect Hill.
Read more ...Brazilian pays €400 for fake driving licence to get insurance, court hears
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A Brazilian man forked out €400 at a roadside meeting for a fake driving licence and then attempted to use it to get insurance, the Galway District Court heard this week.
Read more ...New website to encourage first time buyers into the market
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A new website - www.getmoving.ie - will be launched to encourage first time buyers into the housing market by providing them with up-to-date availability and house price comparisons throughout the Galway region.
Read more ...It’s not all rocket science at the Galway science and tech festival
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Rocket science and space travel are among the subjects which thousands of youngsters from all over the west will be studying as part of the Galway Science and Technology Festival, which opens next week.
Read more ...Man armed with knife threatens another, court hears
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A young man who while carrying a knife threatened a person sitting in a car in a housing estate driveway was remanded on continuing bail at Galway District Court this week.
Read more ...Older people urged to tell organisation how to make Galway more age friendly
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Older people are invited to give their views on how Galway city can become more age-friendly.
Read more ...Burglar caught red-handed gets six months
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A burglar who had used up his chances was sentenced to six months at Galway District Court this week while his accomplice received a suspended sentence.
Read more ...Former hurler Iggy to lead workshop on coping with loss
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
A weekend workshop on loss/grieving will take place at The Ardilaun on November 15 and 16.
Read more ...No shows to pay €2,000 price for no insurance
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Two no shows were fined €2,000 each by a stern judge at Galway District Court this week for the offence of driving without insurance.
Jose Santos with an address at Stone House, Crowe Street, Galway, and Laura Melling with an address at The Old Monastry, Letterfrack, Galway, were both summoned to appear before Judge Gerard Haughton for a string of road traffic offences, however, they failed to make an appearance in court.
Read more ...New gates for Salthill shelters
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
The shelter and changing area in Ladies Beach, Salthill, which is decorated with colourful murals, is to have new, specially designed, gates which will be locked every evening and opened early in the morning.
Read more ...Educo launch new health products
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
Educo Health Products launch their revolutionary women’s health product, Profemme in Galway next week.
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