Winter sale at G Furniture and carpets

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

G Furniture and carpets on the Tuam Road, winter sale is now on with hugh savings across all departments.

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Champagne showarounds at the g hotel today

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

g is for glamour and today Thursday December 29, the g Hotel & Spa are adding a touch of sparkle to their wedding venue appointments. Contact Sylwia on [email protected] or 091 778454 to arrange a private viewing of their luxurious wedding suite fully set up. The welcoming wedding team will also treat you to a glass of champagne with their compliments.

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Model trains, airplanes and tractors at Galway Christmas Model and Diorama Show at Menlo Park Hotel tomorrow

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

The Menlo Park Hotel Galway tomorrow welcomes back The Galway Christmas Model & Diorama Show which will be held in the hotel on tomorrow Friday Dec 30. The event has grown in size from last year and will show more exhibitors and model trade stalls than last year. Over 500 adults and children attended the show last year and the same, if not more, is expected again this year.

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Hotel Meyrick announces New Year wedding open weekend

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Continuing its 164-year-old tradition of making wedding dreams come true, the Hotel Meyrick invites all newly engaged couples to its New Year wedding open day on Saturday January 14 and Sunday 15 from 12 noon to 5pm, as the expert team announce the exclusive wedding package for 2017 and 2018 dates.

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Galway Hospice benefits from Predator Triathlon Club 5k swim

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Galway Hospice was the big winner as Predator Triathlon Club members and friends including the Atlantic Masters, Swim West and NAC Masters, Dublin took to the pool for their annual 5km Charity Swim.

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Never giving up — Frank Byrnes crosses the finish line

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

After months of planning and training as part of the #NeverGiveUp awareness and fundraising campaign for Oranmore Maree Coastal Search Unit, Oranmore man, Frank Byrnes has completed the 206km challenge and is ready to give his running shoes a break.

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Why New Year’s Eve is so special to how we view ourselves

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

At one second past midnight on January 1, the day will change from Saturday to Sunday, usually an unremarkable transition of no special significance. But somehow we’ve decided that this change, which will end one year and begin the next, is different. This unique tick of the clock has always prompted us both to celebrate and to step outside the day-to-day activity we’re always so busy with—to reflect, to look back, take stock, assess how we did, and resolve to do better going forward. Save perhaps for our birthdays, no other moment in the year gets this sort of attention.

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Galway Samaritans answered 47,219 calls in 2016

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Galway Samaritans answered 47,219 calls for help in the last 12 months, with most of these calls received out of hours when other support is not available.

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Teacher takes break from his job to distil poitin

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Pádraic Ó Griallais’ family from Cois Fharraige have been renowned poitín distillers for six generations. He is passionate about poitín, having learned the craft from his 88-year-old grandfather Jimmí Cherri. Jimmí in turn was handed down the skill by his own grandfather, Micil Chearra.

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Galway to be bolstered by two decades of state investment under new Coveney plan

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

infrastructural investment designed to ensure it plays its part in balanced economic and social growth among cities across the country.

The proposals, to be launched by Minster for Housing, Planning and Local Government Simon Coveney next month, will attempt to direct population growth to regional cities to make them attractive investment destinations and allow the development of greater public infrastructure.

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108-year-old Galwaywoman Sarah passes away at home in Connemara

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

Ireland’s oldest person Sarah Clancy died this week aged 108, bringing to an end a remarkable life that spanned many of the notable dates in history.

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Some year for one year, but what’s ahead?

Thu, Dec 29, 2016

It’s been some year for one year — but what about 2017? This week I take a look into my crystal ball and see what’s lying in wait for us.

JANUARY — Celebrities across the globe celebrate on New Year’s Day with “I survived 2016” teeshirts. The Trump inauguration sees the new president sworn in by a trio of Playboy bunnies who he tweets “as better lookers than Supreme Court judges who are losers in the attraction-ness department. Bigly.” Meanwhile in Dublin, President Higgins reveals an addiction to the smell of commemorative wreaths and vows to stay on in office forever… Connacht announce Brian O’Driscoll as their new coach. “This is roysh, like, ya know great, for me, personally, like,” says the new boss. Meanwhile in Mayo, a full month goes by without a crisis in the camp story.

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Senator expresses delight at couple reuniting

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

Sinn Féin Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh has said he is delighted that Kleber Silva Medeiros has been reunited with his wife Harriett Bruce.

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That was some year

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

What a tumultuous political year it’s been! It began with a sense that despite much turmoil and insurgency across the globe voters would shy away from the radical choices and that something akin to the ‘status quo’ would prevail. It ended with Madonna with no sense of irony berating the President-elect of the USA for engaging in sensationalist acts and rhetoric in order to generate publicity.

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Use Christmas to find calm after turbulent year

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

It’s been some year — a whirlwind of emotion, of joy and despair, of utter horror and desperation, of uncertainty and fear, but also a time of pride and happiness.

But in the main we will be glad to see it come to an end. A year that robbed us of many of the stars who entertained us over the decades, a year that showed us that sometime populism is just not good for us. History will tell us if it was a time in which everything as we know it, is ending, and something new and scary is beginning.

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Our love and dependence on each other should inform our actions, says President Higgins in annual message

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

Dear friends here in Ireland and around the world, As President of Ireland, Uachtarán na hÉireann, it is my pleasure to send you my warmest wishes for a peaceful, as well as a happy Christmas and New Year.

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€94,000 allocated to Galway’s animal welfare organisations

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

The Minister for Gaeltacht Affairs and Natural Resources, Seán Kyne, has welcomed the allocation of €94,000 to animal welfare organisations in Galway.

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Latin Mass to be celebrated in Claddagh on Christmas Day

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

On Christmas Day, at 2.30p.m. a traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated in St. Mary’s Church, the Claddagh, Galway.

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Common sense must prevail in Greenway development, says Ó Cuív

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Regional, Rural, Gaeltacht and Island Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív says the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport’s policy on greenway expansion must be reassessed so that a consistent approach can be adopted.

Deputy Ó Cuív says the current system is not working as it fails to compensate farmers for the use of their land, and fails to guarantee the future of the greenway as farmers can revoke permission at any time.

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Try out sea angling in 2017

Thu, Dec 22, 2016

Have you ever thought about casting your line and trying out sea angling? If you have, there is good news this New Year, because the Connacht Provincial Council of the Irish Federation of Sea Anglers are looking for new members.

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