Principal resigns from city school

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

The principal of a city centre secondary school announced this week that she is resigning from her post.

New online application tool helps applicants count work and life experience towards third level

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

The Connacht Ulster Alliance, comprising GMIT, IT Sligo, and LyIT, has launched a college application tool that recognises learning gained through life and work experiences that enables advanced entry to third level programmes.

GPA Solutions offers a range of QQI level five business courses

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

A Sage 50 accounts course will prove a progressive course of study for anyone who simply wishes to advance his/her business skills. The QQI Level 5 course will run for five days over five weeks, commencing March 25 in Galway. Learners will experience setting up a company, entering source documents in the various day book, and preparing debtors and creditors balances and reports. Learners will learn to produce VAT reports, bank reconciliation, and monthly profit and loss and balance sheet reports.

Sport event and free healthy living workshop for the over-fifties

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

Galway based non-profit organisation ProActivate Ireland is holding two healthy living events for people aged 50-plus as part of an EU funded project it developed and coordinated called Active I: Healthy Active Living for Seniors. The sports event will take place in Krakow, Poland, from April 1 to 3 and will comprise a variety of events and activities aimed at healthy living for older adults.

Easter revision courses at Mill Street

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

Enrolments for the Leaving and Junior Cert intensive Easter courses are currently being accepted at The Galway Study Centre in Mill Street. Classes will start on Tuesday morning March 29 and continue until Saturday April 2. Bookings will continue to be accepted up until Thursday March 24, provided there are places vacant. However as many subjects are almost booked out, there is limited availability at this stage. There is also a week of supervised study for Leaving students starting from next Monday, March 21. The supervised study group is limited to 15 and only a couple of fee spaces remain.

Revision at Easter will concentrate on key topics in each subject and students can enrol from one up to a maximum of five subjects. Excellent study notes will be provided and there will be a lot of emphasis on examination and study techniques.

‘We’re more than just males and females’

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

Not everyone identifies as male or female. Chris Ricketts always knew she did not fit comfortably into either category, and her doctors agreed. But Chris rejected the radical surgery and hormone therapy she was offered, because she felt there was nothing about her that needed to be reassigned.

Keep the election posters close at hand

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

As the dust settles on Election 2016, we have a political landscape unlike any seen since the 1950s. The days of the two and a half party system ended in 2011, but further fragmentation of the political landscape sees seven parties and a large number of Independents occupy the 32nd Dáil.

NUI Galway students learn about workers’ rights

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

NUI Galway students are learning about their rights as workers this week as part of a three day campaign being run at the university.

The initiative, which is the brainchild of the Union of Students in Ireland and the trade union SIPTU, finishes today (Wednesday).

Call for medical cards for cancer patients

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

People who are diagnosed with cancer not only pay a high price in terms of their health and quality of life, they are also badly hit financially by the diagnosis.

Avaya Voice wins Choir Factor competition

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

Avaya Voice were singing on high after winning the top prize in the 2016 Galway Choir Factor Competition which took place in the Radisson Blu Hotel at the weekend.

Vacant tourist office in Salthill to be transferred back to the city council

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

After a four year campaign, land occupied by the vacant tourist office in Salthill is to be transferred back to the Galway City Council, following confirmation from Fáilte Ireland that it no longer intends to staff the building.

Galway entrepreneur uses Kickstarter to help her own brand zip along

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

Galway-led business ‘Zip-Lines Ireland’ has taken to Kickstarter to give its business a boost into the direction of manufacturing. Zip-Lines Ireland which is run by Galway-based entrepreneur Jade Goodfellow is looking for funding to invest in the business to get its own branded Garden Zip-Lines up and running.

Great excitement at opening of Galway Games Hub

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

A games hub is opening up in Galway. I am beyond excited, here’s why:

A feast of Irish student drama in Galway to conclude next week

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

The Irish Student Drama Association (ISDA) Festival, hosted by NUI Galway’s Drama Society, will run in Galway from until Wednesday next March 23. The ten-day festival will hold 18 productions in five venues throughout the city including The Mick Lally Theatre, An Taibhdhearc and The Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway.

Over the years ISDA has acted as the starting point in the careers of such theatre heavyweights as Michael Colgan, Conor McPherson, Fiona Shaw, Alan Stanford, Barry McGovern, Cian O’Brien and Tom Creed from Rough Magic, and Garry Hynes from Druid, as well as other well-known names like actress Pauline McLynn and comedian Chris O’Dowd to name but a few.

Bank of Ireland announces support for 110 student clubs and societies

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

Bank of Ireland this week announced a programme of support for the development of Sports Clubs and Societies at NUI Galway. The significant investment from Bank of Ireland will help fund the development of the clubs and societies and help improve the overall quality of the student experience at the University.

It’s March magic with special deals at Louis Copeland and Sons Galway

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

For the entire month of March, Louis Copeland & Sons Galway is offering a special deal on Louis Copeland owned suits, extra trousers or waistcoats valued at €139. The retail value of Louis Copeland suits in the offer are €499.

Skipper Expo a great success for Galway

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

The Skipper Expo Int. Galway 2016 held in the city earlier this month has been hailed a great success with a record number of exhibitors and visitors.Sponsored by BIM, crowds thronged the show over the two days, attracted by a diverse range of stands covering virtually every area of the fishing industry equipment and supply sectors.

Next generation of Irish start from a stronger base

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

The past is indeed a foreign country. The past in Ireland certainly has been.

Galway in the weeks leading up to the Rising

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

On Tuesday 25 April 1916, Galway became the only county outside of Leinster to take up arms against the British state during the Easter Rising. In fact, only three parts of provincial Ireland participated in the Rising: Enniscorthy in county Wexford; Ashbourne in north county Dublin; and county Galway, where several hundred rebels took over 600 square miles of the east of the county between Tuesday 25 April and Saturday 29 April. Commemorative documentaries and history books pay little attention to the Galway Rising with the focus tending to be on the more dramatic events that took place in Dublin, but Galway’s Rising was an important part of the story of the Easter Rising; and the story of the hundreds of brave Galway men who stood up to the British Empire in April 1916 deserves to be told in detail. In this series of five articles, FERGUS CAMPBELL will explain why Galway rose when so many other parts of provincial Ireland did not, and he will also tell the story of what happened in Galway during the Rising, and the impact that the Rising had on Galway society. This account is based on many documents, police reports, newspaper accounts and memoirs but most of the quotations are derived from the witness statements that Galway rebels made to the Bureau of Military History during the 1940s and 1950s, and these can be read online.

Sixty jobs to be created as US IT company locates in Galway

Tue, Mar 15, 2016

Sixty jobs will be created for the city as US data security company, Ipswitch, has decided to locate its European, Middle Eastern, and African HQ in Galway. The jobs will be in research and development, sales, and technical support.

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