University of Galway graduate wins global recognition for Parkinson’s project
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
University of Galway graduate Amber Dowling has been rated in the top 16 student engineers in the world, with a Highly Commended award in the Global Undergraduate Awards for her work on a project to help people with Parkinson’s disease.
Read more ...Galway features in lavish book of photos of our haunting abandoned spaces
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
by Declan Varley
Galway features prominently in a lavishly illustrated gift book by internationally featured photographer Rebecca Brownlie, that includes more than 150 haunting colour photographs of abandoned homes, schools, churches, prisons and more, from all across the island of Ireland.
Galway features prominently in a lavishly illustrated gift book by internationally featured photographer Rebecca Brownlie, that includes more than 150 haunting colour photographs of abandoned homes, schools, churches, prisons and more, from all across the island of Ireland.
Read more ...A wedding to dream for at the g Hotel and Spa
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Love. L-O-V-E, capital letters, bolded, three-exclamation-point love. That’s how you feel about each other. And that’s how you’ll feel about your wedding day at the g Hotel & Spa.
Read more ...Victims of housing crisis are hidden in plain sight as rental market collapses
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Housing is the biggest issue of our time, it is the foundation on which a decent society is built. Food, shelter and education. Yet rents in Galway have risen by over 16% to over €1700 in the last year. Struggling families are paying over €1500 to rent a three-bedroom house in our city. There are now nearly 250 people homeless across our city.
Read more ...Portumna Lotto players urged to look at their tickets
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
One lucky Lotto player is celebrating in Portumna this week after their ticket was one of ten plucked from the drum in the Euromillions Ireland Only Raffle draw.
The ticket worth €50,000 was purchased at Desmond Salmon’s Newsagents, Portumna.
Read more ...COPE Galway thanks Christmas swim dippers, supporters and the Galway community
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Christmas Morning saw a sea of red t-shirts adding to Salthill’s festive atmosphere for the 2022 COPE Galway Christmas Swim. Now in its 33rd year, families, friends, colleagues, sports teams, schoolmates and many familiar faces took part in this long-held Christmas tradition to brave Galway Bay’s cold water in support of the local charity.
Read more ...Ireland West Airport welcomes Toy Show star
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Ireland West Airport were thrilled to welcome little Aron Gibbons, 6, from Westport to the airport last week, Aron, lit up The Late Late Toy Show last month when he appeared on it with Ryan Tubridy, telling the host all about his love for airplanes and airports.
Read more ...Have you recently returned to Galway to start a business? Or thinking of coming home?
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
If you have recently returned to Galway and are setting up a new business or are living abroad and are thinking of returning home with an idea you want to get off the ground – then Back for Business could be for you.
Back for Business is a development programme, funded from the Government’s Emigrant Support Programme, that was established to foster and support entrepreneurial activity among emigrants returning to live in Ireland.
Read more ...Councillor says applicants ‘jump through hoops’ for Additional Needs Payment
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Independent Cllr Declan Kelly is calling on Minister Heather Humphreys to review the ‘cumbersome’ process around applying for the Additional Needs Payment.
Cllr Kelly has said that he knows of a number of instances where, he says, people are effectively being made to ‘jump through hoops’ to get the financial assistance.
Read more ...Get along to Renmore Panto from tonight and support a key part of the city’s cultural history
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
A tradition that goes back more than four decades continues today when the Renmore Pantomime Society take to the stage for their 42nd production, with the magical and timeless tale of Cinderella.
Read more ...Gardai appeal for information after fatal Christmas Eve collision
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Gardaí investigating the single car fatal road traffic collision that occurred on the R347 near Ballyglunin early on Chjristmas Eve have appealed for information that may help their investigation.
The driver, Jamie Barrett-Morley from Ryehill, Monivea died at the scene. The R347 (Between Annagh Hill and Palm Tree junction) was closed with local diversions in place, for the duration of the initial examination by Forensic Collision Investigators.
Read more ...Galway native Mad Yolk farmer proves big hit on Stateside dating show
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Galway farmer Brian Dilleen is well known to people in Galway as the man behind the Mad Yolk ethical farm that sells delicious pasture-raised eggs at markets across the west.
Read more ...Annual Christmas Miscellany 2022
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
During World War 2, after Hitler had overrun the continent and invaded the Soviet Union, the allies had made a treaty with the Soviet Union to supply them with war supplies. Cargo included tanks, fighter planes, fuel, ammunition, raw materials, and food. The early convoys in particular delivered armoured vehicles and Hawker Hurricanes to make up for shortages in the Soviet Union. The Arctic convoys caused major changes to naval dispositions on both sides, which arguably had a major impact on the course of events in other theatres of war. As a result of early raids by destroyers on German coastal shipping and a Commando raid on the Norway coast, Hitler was led to believe that the British intended to invade Norway again. This, together with the obvious need to stop convoy supplies reaching the Soviet Union, caused him to direct that heavier ships, especially the battleship Tirpitz, be sent to Norway, along with submarines.
Read more ...The Real Scrooge
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
One of the hallmarks of the work of 19th-century author Charles Dickens is his oddball characters and their fanciful names: Uriah Heep, Martin Chuzzlewit, Lady Honorie Dedlock, Pip Pirrip, Abel Magwich, Miss LaCreevy, and Bardle the Beedle, to name a few. Perhaps Dickens’ best-known character is Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol -who, it turns out, was inspired by a real person and whose name has become a byword for miserly and mean.
Read more ...Daylight murder in Dublin
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
FROM THE TIMES DECEMBER 8, 1922
Dublin was profoundly shocked today at the news that one of the members of the new Free State Parliament had been murdered in the city’s streets, while another had been seriously wounded. Mr Sean Hales member for West Cork, the late Michael Collins’s constituency, and Mr Padraig O’Maille, member for Galway, who yesterday was elected Deputy-Speaker of the new House, had luncheon together at the Ormond Hotel, Ormond Quay. At about 2.30 they left the hotel to attend the meeting of Parliament and, having called a jaunting car, were shaking hands with the proprietor, who is a relative of one of them, when they were attacked by a band of armed men who were lying in wait for them along the quays. Several shots were fired, and Mr Hales fell immediately, shot through the temple and the lungs.
Dublin was profoundly shocked today at the news that one of the members of the new Free State Parliament had been murdered in the city’s streets, while another had been seriously wounded. Mr Sean Hales member for West Cork, the late Michael Collins’s constituency, and Mr Padraig O’Maille, member for Galway, who yesterday was elected Deputy-Speaker of the new House, had luncheon together at the Ormond Hotel, Ormond Quay. At about 2.30 they left the hotel to attend the meeting of Parliament and, having called a jaunting car, were shaking hands with the proprietor, who is a relative of one of them, when they were attacked by a band of armed men who were lying in wait for them along the quays. Several shots were fired, and Mr Hales fell immediately, shot through the temple and the lungs.
Read more ...Arctic naval convoys during World War II and a Kinvara connection
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
During World War 2, after Hitler had overrun the continent and invaded the Soviet Union, the allies had made a treaty with the Soviet Union to supply them with war supplies. Cargo included tanks, fighter planes, fuel, ammunition, raw materials, and food. The early convoys in particular delivered armoured vehicles and Hawker Hurricanes to make up for shortages in the Soviet Union. The Arctic convoys caused major changes to naval dispositions on both sides, which arguably had a major impact on the course of events in other theatres of war. As a result of early raids by destroyers on German coastal shipping and a Commando raid on the Norway coast, Hitler was led to believe that the British intended to invade Norway again. This, together with the obvious need to stop convoy supplies reaching the Soviet Union, caused him to direct that heavier ships, especially the battleship Tirpitz, be sent to Norway, along with submarines.
Read more ...The first Court of The season
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
FROM THE TIMES JUNE 7 1922
The first of the three evening Courts of the season, which Their Majesties will hold at Buckingham Palace tomorrow night, is an occasion that no one possessed of imagination can consider without sympathetic interest. The scene itself is one of the singular charm, a festival of radiant youth. The flower of English girlhood, to whom this is the formal introduction to the natural pleasures of their social position, will make their curtseys to the Sovereigns. Though comparatively few can be present to see how they bear themselves in what must be to many of them something of an ordeal, we may be sure that each one is subject of the loving thoughts and good wishes of kindred and friends all over the country. The British are not considered an emotional race but there is, indeed, nothing to be ashamed of the in the sentiment which would invoke the purest blessings on these young girls who count for so much in our national life, both now and in the future. For are they not, in a real sense, the exemplars of their sisters of like age in every class of society? The Courts of 1992 bid fair to renew the dignity and state of prewar days, and such differences as have been introduced are all on the side of beauty, simplicity and convenience. The return to feathers, veils and the modified train, which Their Majesties have ordained, has been warmly welcomed not only as marking the importance of the occasion, but also as affording support to the nervous debutante, who in the old days was wont to find the prescribed long train almost unmanageable. It is believed that there has been much merriment over the supposed difficulties of reconciling feathers with “bobbed” hair but the shorter train obviously demands the wearing of corresponding short feathers. The debutante of this year will in fact wear a gown which, in essentials, is the same as any she might order for dinner or a ball, and one which she will be able to wear again at such occasions. The fact is significant of Their Majesties’ determination to discountenance anything like lavish display or needless extravagance, while note depriving the Courts of stateliness and distinction. The Courts in 1992 will set a standard of that beauty which is born of the simplicity of good taste.
Playing it by year — who knows what 2023 holds?
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
They say that an optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. So it will be for many of us this weekend when we bid a glad farewell to another year and welcome in the latest instalment — another chapter in the book of life.
Read more ...Galway man wins national award at Bus Éireann’s GEM award
Thu, Dec 29, 2022
Dermot Hession, whose idea to introduce reverse vending machines in bus stations across the country, was celebrated at the 2022 annual Bus Éireann GEM (Go the Extra Mile) Awards. The awards acknowledge the dedication, exceptional service and heroic efforts of its employees across the country.
Read more ...Half a century for justice — businessman reveals impact of abuse by former Christian Brother
Thu, Dec 22, 2022
A well-known Galway businessman said he had waited fifty years for his journey to justice to be completed, after a former Christian Brother who indecently assaulted him in the early 1970s was told he will be sentenced in March.
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