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.

‘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.

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.

Directed by Dympna O’Byrne, the choir saw off stiff competition from Notorious, Coole Voices and Aerogen Resonance to claim the Choir Factor trophy.

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.

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.

For most of us, we grew up in an Ireland constrained in thought, in mind, and in action. Because we felt perhaps quite rightly, that our country was not at pace with the rest of the world. We were a country that knew little of the delights of tagliatelle and cappuccinos, we were a country that ‘ate its dinner’ in the middle of the day. A country that felt that the only way to talk was to mimic the received prononciation of our neighbours across the Irish Sea. We were a country that celebrated the honourable defeat, a country that felt it lay well behind the culture of not just the developed world, but the entire world. Grateful for what we had, happy to pretend to the world that we drank ‘tay’ from blue willow cups and that our comely maidens were not minding mice, but dancing, at those proverbial crossroads.

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.

Galway band to play for President Obama

Mon, Mar 14, 2016

GALWAY-MAYO folk, trad, and roots band We Banjo 3 perform for the president of the USA, Barack Obama, in Washington DC tomorrow. The audience will also include vice-president Joe Biden, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan.

Homemade @ The Skeff Launched

Mon, Mar 14, 2016

They’ve been feeding locals and visitors alike for 166 years at The Skeff Bar & Kitchen in Eyre Square so they are well placed to celebrate 100 years of food as part of this year’s Galway Food Festival.

Majority of Galway TDs will not support Kenny's re-election as taoiseach

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

Enda Kenny's bid to be re-elected Taoiseach and lead the next Government will not be supported by the majority of Galway's nine TDs when the 32nd Dáil meets today. TDs are also divided on whether Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil will eventually form a coalition.

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