Subsidised local hackney service to be provided in Carna
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Carna is one of twenty-one rural locations included in the pilot scheme announced this week by Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan TD, alongside the National Transport Authority (NTA) who launched a one year pilot programme for a localised, specially licenced hackney service to help improve transport choices for people living in rural locations across the country.
Read more ...Lyons calls on City Council to recruit school wardens
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
The lack of a School Warden around two National Schools in Knocknacarra has created ongoing safety concerns for local councillor Donal Lyons.
Bercause of that he has this week agai raised the issue of the lack of a School Warden on the Clybaun Road with officials at the Transport Directorate at Galway City Council and he has now have written to the Director of Services, Transport Directorate requesting the need to immediately recruit a School Warden for the Clybaun Road.
Read more ...Kevin Higgins — a poet of integrity, honesty and bravery
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
In 2016 The Stinging Fly magazine described Kevin Higgins as ‘likely Ireland’s most read Irish poet’. Kevin who passed away this week was a passionate and popular poet, a satirist, a fine wordsmith, a romantic with real powers of evocation and a gentle presence too.
Read more ...Changing people’s lives
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Tusla - Child and Family Agency is currently running a Fostering Recruitment Campaign to recruit new foster carers to meet the growing demand for placements, as a result of the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and the impact of Covid-19 in communities across Ireland.
Read more ...Inner Relief Road must be prioritised to allow Tuam develop
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Galway County Council need to prioritise the development of the Inner Relief Road for Tuam town, according to Sean Canney Independent TD.
Read more ...Keep visitor numbers to a minimum, says hospital manager
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
The manager of a Co Galway hospital has asked families and loved ones of inpatients at the facility to ensure that visitor numbers are kept to a minimum to protect vulnerable patients from being exposed to viruses.
Read more ...Connolly Motor Group appointed Volvo Cars dealer in Galway
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Connolly Motor Group have been appointed the new Volvo Cars sales and aftersales partner for Galway. A family business since 1939, Connolly Motor Group have 13 outlets employing over 300 staff representing eight different brands in Ballina, Sligo, Letterkenny, and Galway. This is the first Volvo Cars dealership to join the Connolly Motor group family.
Read more ...Start saving money and helping the environment with Western Renewables
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
If, like many around you are seeing the potential benefits of using renewable energy to power your lifestyle, then the team at Western Renewables can guide you through all the options to help you make the transformation.
Read more ...Former University of Galway president named as new Galway Hospice chairman
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
The Board of Galway Hospice Foundation has announced the appointment of a new Chairman, Dr Jim Browne. Dr Browne is Chairman of the Board of Children’s Health Ireland and brings with him a wide variety of experience from the health, engineering, education, and voluntary sectors in Ireland and abroad.
Read more ...Mum Talks — inspiring and empowering mothers
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Mum Talks is an event company and community that supports, inspires and empowers women throughout their journey of motherhood with online and in-person meet-ups, events, talks and workshops.
The 4th Mum Talks Galway Meet Up will take place on Friday, January 27 in the beautiful surroundings of The G Hotel.
Read more ...Galway craft and design businesses get a shot at international success
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
Some of Galway’s best up and coming craft and design businesses will be part of over 100 companies from across Ireland who will get a chance to meet with buyers from all over the world as part of the Local Enterprise Showcase at the 2023 Showcase event in the RDS, running from the 22-24th January.
Read more ...‘Now I know why I am the way I am’
Thu, Jan 12, 2023
In March 2021 I was at one of my lowest ebbs. I really didn’t feel like I had anything to look forward to. I wasn’t in crisis or anything but I was utterly disinterested in the future. It might alarm people to hear that and some might ask “Why didn’t you say something?”
Read more ...Kevin Higgins' final poem ' I Always Thought I'd Live'
Wed, Jan 11, 2023
Galway's literary community has been shocked this week with the passing of poet and writer Kevin Higgins.
Read more ...Co-option expected after shock resignation by Hanley
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
A co-option to Galway City Council by the Social Democrats seems imminent following the decision yesterday of its first ever city councillor to resign.
Cllr Owen Hanley tendered his resignation from the Council following what he said were a number of very serious allegations made against him online in recent days.
Read more ...Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced many thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist.
As a group, the transcendentalists led the celebration of the American experiment as one of individualism and self-reliance. They took progressive stands on women's rights, abolition, reform, and education. They criticized government, organized religion, laws, social institutions, and creeping industrialization.
Read more ...Community collection of Aran folklore available online for the first time
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
A new website featuring extracts from Bailiúchán Béaloidis Árann (the Árainn Folklore Project), a community folklore collection that is more than twenty years a-growing, will be launched next month in Inis Mór, the largest of the three Aran Islands. Partnering on the project are Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU, and the National Folklore Collection at UCD, the co-creators of the website dúchas.ie.
Read more ...Distinguished WHO role for ACT for Meningitis founder
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
ACT for Meningitis founder Siobhan Carroll has been invited to serve as a member of the World Health Organisation Strategy Support Group for the global road map to defeat meningitis by 2030.
Read more ...Major cut in childcare fees welcomed by O’Reilly
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Parents in Galway will potentially save thousands on the cost of childcare thanks to increased subsidies that kick in from yesterday (Wednesday) Senator Pauline O’Reilly has said.
The reduction was made possible after the Green Party Minister for Children, Roderic O’Gorman, secured funding in Budget 2023 to increase the minimum subsidy for registered early learning and childcare from €0.50 per hour to €1.40.
Read more ...City and County Councils had below average planning approvals, overview finds
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
Galway City and County Council had below-average rates of planning approvals in 2021, according to the Annual Overview of the Planning System for 2021, published by the Office of the Planning Regulator.
Galway City Council had an approval rate of 86 percent for planning applications, while the figure for Galway County Council was 82 percent, compared to a national average approval rate of 88.5 percent.
Read more ...Death of Peter Pringle at his home in Connemara
Thu, Jan 05, 2023
An 84 year old man who was sentenced to death for the murder of two gardai in 1980 and served almost 15 years in jail before his conviction were overturned, has died at his home in Connemara.
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