€1,250,000 new store launch sale continues at Furniture Connexions

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

To mark the reopening of their brand new flagship store in Briarhill Business Park, Galway, Furniture Connexions have extended their special launch sale this weekend for three days only starting on Friday at 10am.

Heart transplant recipient comes full circle following 2500km charity trek from Salthill

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

Three months after setting off from the ‘Circle of Life’ memorial garden in Salthill on an incredible 2500km walk around the Irish coast raising funds and awareness for the Irish Heart and Lung Transplant Association (IHLTA), this weekend foster carer and heart transplant recipient Ron Cummins successfully made it back to the special spot where his walk started.

NUI Galway aims to be first university in Europe to adopt mindfulness culture

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

NUI Galway will host a conference on October 9-10 bringing together mindfulness visionaries, higher education leaders and University staff and students to share the evidence-based impact of mindfulness on performance, well-being, entrepreneurship and society.

The NUI Galway Mindful Way conference will seek to explore current challenges within society and organisations. It will focus on the benefits of integrating mindfulness with the University setting to continue to serve the 21st century needs in delivering its core principles: teaching, research and contribution to society through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Korean broadcasting station visits Galway city to cover endangered languages

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

A documentary on endangered languages is to be produced by South Korea’s largest broadcasting network, following a visit to Galway to investigate the situation regarding the Irish language.

Gala evening in aid of GUH Arts Trust

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

THE GALWAY University Hospitals Arts Trust is holding a gala evening of music and song in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday September 30 at 8pm, featuring Luka Bloom, John Faulkner, Mary Bergin, and The Amazing Apples.

The event opens with a performance by the Galway University Hospital Choral Society, lead by Seamus Leonard. Flute player Christy Barry, who recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to music at the Doolin Folk Festival, and his band - Conor McCarthy, James Devitt, and John Faulkner. Singer-songwriter Luka Bloom; acclaimed fiddle player Mick Conneely and Mary Bergin, one of Ireland’s greatest tin whistle players; and indie-folk band The Amazing Apples will also perform.

Fidelma Healy Eames to launch campaign with fundraiser that will also benefit local charities

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

Sat Oct 17 will see Senator Fidelma Healy Eames launch her Independent campaign for a Dail seat in Galway West/ South Mayo with a ‘Night at the Dogs’.

One tenth of new nurses hired for GUH have returned from overseas

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

One in 10 nurses hired by Galway University Hospitals (UHG and Merlin Park) since January has returned from overseas.

Let’s get creative about this

Thu, Sep 24, 2015

One of the 5k races I ran in early summer was at Galway Airport. It was one of those rare nice Tuesday nights, when almost a thousand runners ran around the edges of  the runway, around and around, running one way towards Boston and then the other way towards Brussels — and when you are labouring up one length of the runway and then down the other end, you get a view of the place that only a few have ever had.  Normally you were only air-side of the terminal if you were embarking and disembarking. On this evening, we all had a privileged view of a facility that was crying out to be loved again.

Kinane calls for businesses suffering due to roadworks to get a rates rebate

Tue, Sep 22, 2015

It is hoped that roadworks in Oranmore will finish a week ahead of schedule. However, along with causing havoc for commuters over the past number of weeks, businesses in the area have suffered a major drop in trade and a local county councillor is calling for their rates bills to be eased as a gesture of goodwill.

Crisis meeting called to discuss the future of Aran Islands air service

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

A special meeting of Galway County Council will take place next week to discuss the future of the Aran Islands air service. Up to 20 politicians from across Galway visited Inis Mór, Inis Oirr, and Inis Meáin yesterday for a series of meetings aimed at saving the service.

Right2Water can win in Ireland, but will the EU let it?

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

For the first time in seven bitter years, we are witnessing serious opposition to Government policies that have made ordinary folk pay for an economic crisis they did not create. This resistance did not come from within the Dáil. It emerged through actions taken completely outside of the parliamentary process arising from the formation of the Right2Water campaign in opposition to water charges.

Public meeting on Goverment's White Paper on defence

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

The Government's White Paper on defence has attracted scant media comment, but if implemented, will see Ireland increase military spending, "deepen" its relationship with the EU, OSCE, and NATO, and be required to work closely with the European Defence Agency.

O Conaire statue — an icon that straddles old and new Galway

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

Even though parents and grandparents would have you believe that there was no gallivanting in their days and that there was no sex in Ireland before Wanderly Wagon, there isn’t a house in Ireland that doesn’t have a fading greying naturally sepia-tic photograph of Granny draped erotically around the shoulders of Padraic O Conaire, the statue, not the man. 

Eamon Ceannt festival among 2016 events for Galway

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

A week-long festival commemorating the life of Eamon Ceannt, the only Galway-born leader of the Easter Rising, will be among a series of events taking place in Galway next year to mark the centenary of 1916.

City council facing five million euro gap in finances

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

Galway City Council is facing a shortfall of some €5 million as it attempts to balance its books for the year, it emerged this week.

Galway chief exective Brendan McGrath warned councillors of the significant gap in the city’s finances during a discussion on future funding for Macnas, and referred to the gap repeatedly throughout a meeting of the local authority on Monday.

City braces itself for highest tides in nearly two decades

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

This month will see some of the highest tides Galway has experienced in the last 18 years, with measures being put in place to deal with flooding around the Spanish Arch area of the city.

Taste of France now open at Cross St Lower

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

Taste of France shop opens its doors in Cross St Lower this week. Owned and run by French natives Thierry and Catherine Schreiber, this shop offers a wide range of products produced by well known French suppliers known for their Made  in France tradition from areas such as Provence, Drome and Basque country. The product range on offer includes candies, linen, accessories, natural cosmetics and a delicatessen. 

Local property tax rate to remain unchanged next year, vote councillors

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

Galway city councillors have voted to retain the local property tax at its current rate for the coming year.

The issue caused much debate when it was discussed this week by the councillors, who have the discretion to raise or lower the rate of the tax by up to 15 per cent every year. 

Gala evening in aid of Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

The Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust is holding a gala evening of music and song in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday September 30 at 8pm, featuring Luka Bloom, John Faulkner, Mary Bergin, and The Amazing Apples, among others.

Galway medical device business wins FDA clearance

Thu, Sep 17, 2015

A Ballybrit based medical device company has received some good news for its export business. ArraVasc designs, manufactures, and markets innovative devices for interventional clinicians across the world. In August the business received notification of FDA clearance, which will allow export sales to the USA. 

ArraVasc’s facility in Ballybrit, which employs 40 people, is primarily a research and development hub and a manufacturing site.  The company’s  focus is primarily on peripheral vascular disease: by using its proven expertise in materials and product design, they are developing the Pirouette family of peripheral balloon catheters, which are often used to help patients with blockages in their arteries, commonly in the legs.

E-paper

Read this weeks E-paper. Past editions also available from within this weeks digital copy.