Crowe calls for weekend driving tests to help clear backlog

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Driving tests need to be held on Saturday and Sundays to clear a backlog resulting from Covid-19 which has left more than 100,000 people waiting for a test.

Cap on energy prices needed in advance of Budget carbon tax increases, say PBP Galway

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

In the face of mounting energy costs for people, and proposed increases in the carbon tax in Budget 2022, an emergency cap on energy prices must be implemented by the Government.

Canney concerned at rate of progress over diagnostic facilities for north Galway

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Diagnostic facilities at the Tuam Primary Care Centre are progressing with GP direct access Ultrasound re-commencing this week, the HSE has confirmed.

Affordable Housing Plan needs to be ‘speeded up’, says Grealish

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

A “yawning gap” has opened, which was getting wider, between those who might hope to get a house, and those earning too little to get a regular mortgage, and too much to qualify for social housing.

Council called on to issue CPO for Corrib Great Southern site

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

The Galway City Council must issue a compulsory purchase order on the site of the old Corrib Great Southern Hotel and use it to build publicly-owned student housing.

Joyce’s Supermarkets partners with Croí to raise awareness about heart disease

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Joyce’s Supermarkets has teamed up with Croí, a registered charity dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke, in support of its work in the West of Ireland. The partnership and instore fundraiser kicked off last week on World Heart Day and will be running until World Stroke Day on October 29. Customers will be able to donate directly via bucket donations at till points.

Architecture at the Edge festival is back — and looking at alternative futures

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

BY Declan Varley
The thematic for this year’s iteration of the Architecture at the Edge festival which opens this week, will be related to ‘Alternative Futures’. AATE will invite audiences to reflect on propositions and opportunities for change and intervention in a world of uncertainty.

Kinvara woman to row alone and unsupported across the ocean

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Kinvara’s Dr Karen Weekes is a woman with a mission — for 70 days starting at the end of this year, she will row alone across 3,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, a feat that no Irishwoman has previously achieved.

Should our Army be involved in what is happening in Mali?

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy,” Henry Kissinger once said, and any objective reader of Signal, the magazine of the Irish Commissioned Officers Association, might find it hard to disagree.

Social media outage gave us a glimpse of a life without

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

For five hours on Monday night, the world was thrown back in time a little. Not for the first time in the past few years have we lost something which we had taken for granted. And it bothered people.

For those few hours, many of us were left staring into a social media abyss. No side effects at first, but as the evening went on, there was an edginess about people who are attached to their sites and their profiles. At first disbelief that anything like this could happen. And then, just like the beginning of lockdown, there was a novelty factor that brought a sort of relief that we might all go back to pre-social media days when life was less complicated and we didn’t know if the neighbour ran 5km or had avocados for her breakfast.

Still time to enter the Galway Chamber Business Awards

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

There is just over one week left to enter the Galway Chamber Business Awards 2021, in association with Shannon Group plc. Why not seize the opportunity to showcase the tremendous work your business has done over the last year?

Public consultation on Millar’s Lane upgrade has commenced

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Public consultation on the proposed Millar’s Lane upgrade has started.

Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh gearrliosta announced

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Gaillimh le Gaeilge has announced the 16 nominees who have been selected as this year’s finalists for Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2021. Celebrating the Gradam’s 19th anniversary, this year’s Gearrliosta reflects the diverse range of businesses and organisations celebrating an Ghaeilge and making their mark on bilingual Galway and across the country.

COPE Galway wins award for Modh Eile House

Thu, Oct 07, 2021

Modh Eile House, the new home of COPE Galway’s domestic abuse services for women and children in Galway, has secured an Irish Council for Social Housing Allianz Community Housing award for 2021.

After more than 40 years operating from Waterside House, the move to Modh Eile House in May 2020 represented the culmination of a near 10-year journey for the organisation to ensure that the building and facilities available to women and children seeking refuge and support because of violence in their own homes were of the highest possible standards.

NUIG Students’ Union launch charity challenge

Tue, Oct 05, 2021

Galway Rape Crisis Centre and BeLonG To Youth Services will be the charities that are set to benefit from this year’s NUI Galway Students’ Union Charity Challenge.

Scully still making a difference

Fri, Oct 01, 2021

“Our work is giving a leg up rather than a hand out,” Ronan Scully says about Self Help Africa’s willingness to make a difference.

Racecourse facility to be used to give health workers winter flu jab

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

The mass vaccination centre at Galway Racecourse at Ballybrit is to be used to issue the winter flu vaccine to healthcare workers in the west.

Appointment of 80 new nurses means hospital beds can be reopened, health forum told

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

The appointment of 80 new nurses to Galway University Hospitals (UHG and Merlin Park) will mean that beds closed due to staffing shortages can be reopened and access can be restored to five day services at Merlin Park’s Hospital 1 facility.

Long waiting lists in ED due to bed pressure

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

Patients attending the emergency department (ED) of University Hospital Galway are facing long waiting times to be admitted to wards for treatment due to the ongoing pressure on bed availability.

Galway 2020 and Galway Chamber of Commerce host EU-Japan networking event

Thu, Sep 30, 2021

Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture with Galway Chamber of Commerce were pleased to host a small networking event this week in honour of Mr. Shuji Kogi, Secretary General, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee. The reception was to celebrate the legacy relationship between EU Japan Fest and Galway, as a former European Capital of Culture.

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