New Masters in Biomedical Genomics first of its kind in country

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

NUI Galway has launched a new Masters programme in Biomedical Genomics, the first of its kind to be offered in Ireland. This programme places NUI Galway at the forefront of training the next generation of scientists and clinicians in the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies, both within fundamental scientific discovery and in clinical applications.

GRETB free pharmacy sales assistant programme

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

The GRETB Training Centre has announced another free full-time day training course in Mervue. The retail pharmacy skills programme will commence on March 14. The programme is open to all unemployed adults and preference given to those in receipt of social protection payments.

Successful trainees will avail of a recognised QQI qualification, and the programme includes 10 weeks’ work experience.

Michelin Star chef to open fifth Galway Food Festival

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

Ross Lewis, the Michelin Star chef from the Chapter One Restaurant, Dublin, will open the fifth annual Galway Food Festival, which this year will celebrate ‘100 years of Irish Food’, across the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

Launch of Oranmore Maree coastal search unit

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

A public meeting will be held in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel next Monday March 7 where details of a newly established coastal search unit will be unveiled.

This organisation was established following the recent extensive coastal search which took place over the Christmas period after young NUIG student Michael Bugler was reported missing. During that time, Oranmore became the central location, where members of An Garda Siochana, Galway Lifeboat, and Galway Civil Defence were joined each day by several hundred volunteers.

Housing crisis to be focus of discussion at GMIT’s annual International Construction Management Day Conference

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

The sixth annual GMIT International Construction Management Day Conference will take place in the institute on Tuesday March 8, from 9am to 3.45pm. The annual conference is the largest construction event in the west of Ireland and provides a meeting place for professionals, contractors, and academics to meet and discuss matters of concern to the industry. The event draws delegates from Ireland and abroad.

Leahy to host NUI Galway alumni ceremony

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

Broadcaster and solicitor Will Leahy will host this weekend’s NUI Alumni Gala Banquet featuring the 2016 Alumni Awards ceremony.

How come all this change doesn’t feel like change at all?

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

In every other election in the recent past, there has been a defined amount of certainty. There was always only one or two possible Taoisigh. Always one or two possible combinations. The local faces seemed to be the same local faces. Those same local faces were loyal to the same national faces. The local constituencies merely a foreplay to the grand coupling in the smoke-filled rooms.

And so on it went. Ad infinitum.

'Independents will put the needs of the country before local politics'

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

He was elected without reaching the quota in 2002, 2007 and 2011. There were no scraping in at the very end for Noel Grealish in Election 2016 though. This time the result was emphatic.

'Maybe this Dáil will have control over the government'

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

As sure as the sun rises in the morning, Eamon Ó Cuív will be re-elected. However the Dáil he faces will enjoy no such certainty, as an angry electorate rejects the Government, and no single party holds enough seats to lead a majority, Government. For Dep Ó Cuív though, this could be the makings of a much stronger, more effective parliament.

Sunday morning, counting down.

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.

Galway’s beaten candidates may find that politics follows them around

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

For many candidates, tomorrow (Monday) brings a new reality. They will wake up facing new challenges in their lives. On Friday, they had a future in politics. Now that has all changed. But changing career and adjusting to life after politics is never easy, especially if youv’e made a name for yourself in the old profession.

GALWAY WEST - Count by Count

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

From the long Saturday night, and into the long Sunday of in the Galway West count, in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, here are the results, count by count.

Latest news from the Galway East count

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Update 7.50pm
Ciaran Cannon has taken the last of the three seats in Galway East in the seventh count. 

Galway West - what the tallies tell us now

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Eamon Ó Cuív will top the poll in Galway West; Derek Nolan has lost his seat, Fidelma Healy Eames fourth attempt to enter the Dáil has failed, and Galway might be about to elect it's first woman in more than 20 years, and it's first Sinn Féin TD in almost a century.

'I'm not in favour of Labour becoming a Trotskyite party'

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Bloody but unbowed, down but not out, former Galway West TD Derek Nolan conceded defeat this afternoon ahead of the first count in Galway West, but the 33-year-old is not ruling out a possible return to politics at some stage.

GALWAY WEST - the latest tallies

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Éamon Ó Cuív (FF) 15.2%
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (SF) 11.35%

The loss though expected still hurts

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

You can see it in their eyes, the sadness, the disappointment. There are candidates who came here to NUI Galway today knowing in their hearts of hearts that they were not going to make it. That the field was too crowded, that their chances were slim against a field packed with heavyweights.

Yet it still hurts when your name is called out with a number after it.

Brand Hildegarde - cometh the hour?

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

The best footballers operate with a single name.
Pele, Ronaldo, Neymar.

Dramatic count ahead as election promises to be most exciting in decades

Thu, Feb 25, 2016

Galway West stands on the brink of electing its first female TD in almost 20 years, but while the omens are good for Independent Left councillor Catherine Connolly, her route to the Dáil is by no means certain, as Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats are also eyeing that same seat.

Marathon election count predicted

Thu, Feb 25, 2016

It could be early next week by the time Galway voters learn the full line-up of their representatives in Dail Eireann. With voters going to the polls across the three constituencies from dawn tomorrow (Friday), the complexity of the counts could mean that the Galway TDs may not be fully confirmed until Monday at least.

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