Beautify your home for Christmas with Home Gallery Interiors

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

Home Gallery Interiors are getting ready for the Christmas season and are advising all customers to have their furniture orders in on time for Christmas delivery. 

Registration for MeetWest set to close ahead of schedule

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

With just over three weeks to the west of Ireland’s biggest business networking event, organisers are predicting that MeetWest 2015 will sell out ahead of schedule. Now in its fifth year, MeetWest takes place in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone Co. Roscommon on November 18 and 19.

Galway Bay Golf Resort awarded IGTOA Parkland Golf Course of the Year title

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

At the Ireland Golf Tour Operator Association (IGTOA) awards ceremony held on October 19 at Slieve Donard Resort and Royal Co. Down, Galway Bay Golf Resort was recognized for its “standards of excellence within the golf industry” and the key role it plays in promoting Irish golf tourism.

Seahorse Aquarium Galway — catering for all your fish keeping needs

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

Have you ever wanted to keep real Nemo and friends but had no idea where to go to purchase your own Nemo Aquarium? Well Seahorse Aquariums Galway is the place to visit. Seahorse Aquariums, an aquatic specialist store, caters for the novice to the expert fish keeper.

Thanks to modern filtration and expert advice keeping a Marine Aquarium has never been easier. You can have an amazing real coral reef aquarium in your home or business featuring Nemo, Jacques (Cleaner Shrimp), Gurgle (Royal Gramma), Peach (Red Starfish), Dory (regal Tang) and many more.

Create something amazing today — at the Little Paper Tree

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

As the weather gets colder and rainier, the best place to be is inside a cosy warm house at a table.  You don’t even have to get dressed!  Shop in this online store at thelittlepapertree.com and wait for the courier to arrive with your goodies.  Then start crafting up a storm.

Be safe, be smart and download the Big O Taxi app in advance of the weekend

Thu, Oct 29, 2015

As Galway prepares to celebrate Halloween, Big O Taxis would like to advise all its customers to stay safe this weekend.

SF candidate demands halt to 'unfair treatment' of turfcutters

Wed, Oct 28, 2015

Some 900 families across south Galway, as well as 97 families in the broader Monivea area, are prohibited from cutting turf on their own bog land, as a result of "undemocratic European Regulation".

County councillors told free parking could cost them

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The CEO of Galway County Council has sounded a note of warning to councillors about the cost of providing two hours' free parking in county towns. It had been previously agreed that this initiative would be put in place over the coming months, as part of an effort to help ailing local businesses. However, speaking at this week's council meeting, CEO Kevin Kelly told local representatives that the cost of giving free parking could see their Notice of Motion money reduced.

How Budget 2016 will affect the election in Galway and the State

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

If there was one thing Insider, and everyone else inside the political bubble, was agreed on, it was that the Government would fight tooth and nail to ensure nothing overshadowed the Budget that was to form the cornerstone of its re-election bid.

Reconnecting with thirty years of enduring songs

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

Glasgow, 1985, a Scotland enduring high emigration and the ravages of Thatcherism, but there still manages to be a thriving and creative music scene in the city, and it is there that songwriter Ricky Ross and singer Lorraine McIntosh form a band named after a key song on Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja.

Abortion Pill Bus to arrive in Galway

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The Abortion Pill Bus, which will carry abortion pills, currently not legally available in Ireland, will be in Galway city tomorrow [Friday October 23]  to raise issues of reproductive rights and the repeal of the controversial 8th Ammendment of the constitution.

Garavan’s retains 'Best Whiskey Bar of the Year Connaught’ title

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

For the second year running, Garavan’s has won Irish Whiskey Bar of the Year for Connaught at the Irish Whiskey Awards in Dublin. Organised by the Celtic Whiskey Shop, the awards recognise the best whiskey producers, distillers, and bars in Ireland.

Macnas's Shadow Lighter parade set to illuminate weekend

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The legendary Macnas Parade takes to the streets of Galway this Sunday at 5.30pm, to once again sprinkle its unique magic dust over the city streets. This year’s parade is entitled The Shadow Lighter and it celebrates the magical, mystical act of transformation.

The future is now, so grasp it Xxx

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

They say that some of the metal moulds for the original DeLorean cars now lie in the bottom of the sea off Connemara, having been bought in the bankruptcy sale as scrap by some fisherman who wanted to secure his lobster nets to the floor of the bay. Imagine that. The mould for the cars deemed the world’s sexiest, so much so that they could pass as contemporary in a movie that spammed three decades, used as scrap. Shiny enticements to lobsters on their last journey. And as those crustaceans walk slowly towards the cages that will transport them to the boiling waters of a posh eaterie, one hopes they tap those moulds and say, thanks for the memories. And if that urban myth is true, then today those moulds are unaware that the whole world is talking about them. For just one day. Unaware of the mayhem above the choppy waters that trap them there. They are the focus of international attention because of Marty McFly.

Yesterday was Back To The Future Day - that day in the 1980s movie when Marty and his mad prof took off on a journey to bring them three decades into October 2015. Many of the prophecies in that film have not come true. Thankfully. Self-lacing shoes would be just too much of a headwreck. Although the seemingly daft prediction at the time that society would in the main walk around in clothes designed for athletics has been prophetic. Most city centres look like Olympic villages now, such is the proliferation of sportsgear as regular wear. 

Science & Tech Fest launched by rugby hero O’Kelly

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The launch of the 18th Galway Science and Technology Festival, part of National Science Week, was hosted by the main sponsor Medtronic in their Customer Innovation Centre, Parkmore on Monday  The 2015 Festival will see 180 events and 35,000 primary and secondary school students take part in shows and workshops from November 9-22. This year’s Festival will explore and celebrate “Science Week 2.0 - Design Your Future” in this International Year of Light at events in schools, colleges, research institutes, companies and community centres across Galway City and County. 

Nineteenth Baboró Festival inspires many children and families

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

Some 15,700 attended the 19th Baboró International Arts Festival for Children over the course of the week-long festival, which ended last Sunday. This year’s festival came with a promise to ‘do your heart good’ and the rich and varied programme made sure of that. With shows catering for babies right up to ages 15, this year’s festival featured beautifully imaginative and inspiring shows from Ireland as well as Canada, the Ukraine, Italy, Belgium, and Spain.

Have you nominated someone for the Galway People of the Year Awards 2015?

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The organising committee of the 19th Annual Galway People of the year Awards have extended the closing date for receipt of nominations for this very high profile and prestigious event which honours and recognises the high achievers in our city and county to Tuesday next October 26.

Disgust voiced at lack of local superintendent following nasty break-in at Gort Mart

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

A robbery at Gort Mart on Sunday night has once again highlighted the scourge of rural crime in Galway. The incident was mentioned at this week’s meeting of Galway County Council. Ardrahan based representative Michael Fahy called for a superintendent to be reinstated in the Gort district to help address the crime problem in the locality.

Stats show Galway Bike Scheme proving very popular

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

Galway’s Bike Scheme has attracted more than 2,100 annual members in its first 10 months in operation. Usage figures supplied by the National Transport Authority show the Cathedral is by far the most popular docking station while stations at Fr. Burke Road, New Dock Street, Claddagh Basin and Eyre Square are also widely used.

Racing this bank holiday weekend at Ballybrit

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

The two day October Bank Holiday meeting kicks off on Sunday, October 25 with the first race at 1.30pm, and Bank Holiday Monday October 26 at 1.25pm.  There are 14 races, generously sponsored by many local firms over two great days of competitive National Hunt racing, with an impressive total prize fund of over €215,000 on offer which is sure to attract runners from many of Ireland’s top stables. The feature race on Sunday is “The Faber Audiovisuals Handicap Hurdle” and on Monday “The Ennis Lifts Handicap Steeplechase”.

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