No plans to use prefabs at UHG to tackle overcrowding, says Naughton

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

There are no plans to use prefabs at University Hospital Galway (UHG) as a short-term response to the overcrowding crisis, FG deputy Hildegarde Naughton said last evening.

Online study launched for parents of children with disabilities

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

The research will be carried out throughout Ireland, the UK, and the US until April 2017, and the researchers are particularly keen for couples in Ireland to participate in the survey.

Dr Kristen Maglieri and Professor Brian Hughes from the School of Psychology at NUI Galway are recruiting couples to complete the online research study, exploring how parents in a relationship (married or unmarried) cope with the daily stresses of raising a child with a disability.

COPE Galway Sleepout raised more than €140,000

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

COPE Galway have confirmed that that their business Sleep Out held in the city last December has raised over €140,000.

Cancer Care West to hold course on life after cancer treatment

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Cancer Care West is delighted to launch a new course, aimed at people who have finished their cancer treatment.

This has been identified as a difficult time for patients and families because even though the patient has been given the ‘all clear’, all the worries and anxieties can still remain.

Locked on — brothers find the key to success in Galway

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Lock Doctor, a business created in the height of the recession, has grown into Ireland’s largest firm of locksmiths and has franchises around the country. Now brothers Tommy and Michael Dillon have brought this buisness to Galway.

“We make keys for virtually every type of car which makes us unique” said Tommy, “and we get the opportunity to work with some interesting models of cars”. But as Michael pointed out, Lock Doctor isn’t just about cars, as it is primarily a service business.

NUI Galway to name iconic building after first woman to earn an engineering degree

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

A ceremony to mark the official naming of the Alice Perry Engineering Building will take place at NUI Galway on Monday next March 6 to honour the woman first woman in Ireland or the UK to have received a degree in engineering.

Big clean-up in Moycullen this weekend

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

A major community clean-up, including a decluttering of the Moycullen and Killannin lakes and canals will take place this Saturday and volunteers are asked to meet at An Fuaran car park at Moycullen at 10am.

LARC respond to proposals to sell Loughrea Town Hall

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Loughrea Arts Recreation and Culture (LARC) have expressed concern that Galway County Council is prepared to consider selling Loughrea Town Hall to unspecified commercial interests.

Spring retreats and events at Knock Shrine

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

This Spring brings with it a host of great events at Knock Shrine, from day retreats to music workshops, there is plenty to enrich and enliven. The latest faith renewal programme has been developed to offer new and engaging day retreats, workshops, courses and spiritual concerts to the local community and pilgrims visiting the world famous Shrine.

Celebrating Family; Preparing for World Meeting of Families 2018

Lifes2good donates €50,000 to Galway SAMARITANS

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Lifes2good, an Irish health and beauty company headquartered in Galway, teamed up with local charity Galway SAMARITANS last year in an attempt to raise much needed funds and awareness for the charity. Galway SAMARITANS are currently undertaking a refurbishment of their Nun’s Island location which had greatly deteriorated over the past number of years.

Societies by their nature are inequitable

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

Take a stroll out on the street and see for yourself the various manifestations of humanity that are there before your eyes. You see the strong, the weak, the confident, the loud, the shy, the timid. All human nature. Every country has people who exist under the radar, whose voices are never heard because they have not been granted a voice, or because the people who have been designated the role of being their voice are not doing their job properly.

When we tend to think of those without a voice, we tend to look back and imagine this from a different age, the child in the back room who is never brought out, an era when everyone lived in black and white, when people were not glic, when they were uneducated, didn’t know their rights. And because of that, they became the unwitting victims of a whole generation of perverse horror.

This Saturday is the grand opening of TJ O’Mahonys Gort Newly Designed Store

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

This Saturday is the grand opening of TJ O’Mahonys Gort Newly Designed Store. Formally Coen’s Hardware TJ O’MAHONYS is one of Ireland’s best known names in Builders Providers and Hardware stores.

JCI Galway and the Portershed are excited to welcome Award-winning photographer Mark White with his initiative 'Faces of Ireland 2017'

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

Mark has been taking to the highways and byways of Ireland on a mission to photograph the ‘Faces of Ireland: 2017’ and is looking for 20 male or female models of any age to volunteer in Galway.

NUIG students to vote on supporting a United Ireland

Tue, Feb 28, 2017

NUI Galway students will join with students from Trinity College Dublin and UCD in holding referenda on whether or not the three university's students' unions should support a United Ireland.

How to deal with the refugee crisis in the age of Trump

Mon, Feb 27, 2017

Building a wall along the Mexican-American border; banning people from a number of Muslim majority countries from entering the US; 'Fortress Europe' against the needs of Syrian civilians fleeing war - the last two years have seen opinion turn against immigrants.

Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson to perform iconic album at Galway International Arts Festival

Fri, Feb 24, 2017

He is revered by Beatles and rock royalty, the main creative force behind some of the most cherished recordings in rock history and one of the most influential composers of the last century.

City Hall staff harassed and abused following allegations made by senator

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

City Council staff have been subjected to abuse and harassment over the past week, as a result of serious allegations regarding alleged abuses of the Affordable Housing Scheme, made public by a senator last week.

Community crèches could be forced to close due to changes in Community Employment Scheme

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

Changes in a community employment scheme may have major implications for staffing levels in community crèches and could result in the closure of some facilities.

The new regulations, which were introduced in January, result in changes in the way adult:child ratios are calculated, and no longer include Community Employment Scheme workers.

Connolly condemns Harris over 'silence' on need for new hospital for Galway

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

A new A&E for Galway is not enough, the city needs a new hospital, according to outspoken Left TD Catherine Connolly, who accused Health Minister Simon Harris of "failing to grasp" this issue "either deliberately or through inexperience".

Ó Cuív tells Govt to reverse downgrade of Galway Port

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

The classification of Galway Port as a port of regional significance and not a national port able to claim European funding, must be reversed immediately as it leaves the majority of the west coast without a port of national significance.

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