Galway Simon Community receives funding boost from ESB Electric Aid

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Galway Simon Community has been awarded the sum of €11,125 from ESB Electric Aid to help towards part-funding a service to assess client engagement in activities and goal-setting.

Simon recognises that how an individual spends their day is an integral part of their journey through and out of homelessness. In response to this ,it has committed to developing a new service in 2015 which will offer support to individuals to assess their current level of engagement in activities and to set goals to make changes in this area of an individual’s life.  

Wear your Christmas jumper for festive fundraiser

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Gorta Self Help Africa will hold a Christmas jumper charity lunch party tomorrow (Friday) as part of its festive fundraising campaign.

College gets behind bone marrow campaign to help champion rower

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Staff and alumni of NUI Galway are getting behind a campaign to encourage people to consider donating bone marrow. The campaign is inspired by the story of Paul Giblin, an engineering graduate and champion rower for the University, who is battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

GMIT Foodie Forum to merge with Gastronomy West to hold largest culinary event in the region

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Following two successful events in 2012 and 2013, the Foodie Forum is to return to Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on Tuesday February 3. This hugely successful event, the only one of its kind in an educational environment, is already attracting significant interest from chefs, food producers, craft brewers, restaurateurs, and culinary enthusiasts from around the country.  

‘Sensitive’ dentist clinches prestigious award

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

A city based dentist has scooped a prestigious award for his sensitivity and understanding.

Ireland West Airport Knock hosts successful travel trade event

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Ireland West Airport Knock hosted its eighth annual travel trade event to recognise the support and contribution the travel agents in the region provide to the airport.

 The event, which was held in the Lodge at Ashford Castle, had a record attendance with 50 of the regions leading travel agents from the West, North West and Midlands regions of Ireland in attendance as well as leading tour operators from around Ireland.

Lakeview School lauds Big O Taxis for support during year

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

The staff and students of Lakeview School Renmore have thanked Big O Taxis for its support and generosity throughout the year.

Shannon says thanks and charities benefit as kids meet Santa in the sky

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

A bumper Christmas, with an anticipated 15 per cent increase in passenger numbers from 12 months ago, kicked off at Shannon Airport this weekend as close on 2,000 children, including many from Galway got to meet Santa in the skies.

Walsh invites Arts Minister to visit Picture Palace site

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

The Minister for Arts, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, has accepted an invitation to visit the site of the Solas Picture Palace in Galway and meet its promoters.

ComReg to test Galway for mobile phone coverage, says Nolan

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Deputy Derek Nolan has received confirmation from the Commission for Communications Regulation that it will test all primary and secondary national roads, as well as motorways, in Galway for mobile phone coverage. The move follows reports of poor mobile phone coverage in rural parts of the county.

Jurys Inn announces fundraiser for Olympian and local Galway man

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Jurys Inn Galway will hold a fundraiser on Saturday December 20 for Galway man and Special Olympian Martin Diskin who is currently being treated in University Hospital Galway following a serious road accident.

Community Carols Event this Sunday at Circle of Life garden

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

The peaceful setting of the Circle of Life Commemorative Garden in Quincentennial Park, Salthill, will be the venue for a Comnnunity Carols Event o Sunday at 4pm.

Organised by local Ccarity, Strange Boat Donor Foundation, this seasonal event will give people the opportunity to remember loved ones while also celebrating the joy of Christmas and the Winter Solstice in the tranquil and healing atmosphere of this very special garden.  

Local gardaí urge road users to stay safe over the holidays as checkpoint campaign continues

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Gardaí are appealing to road users to stay safe on the road over the festive period as part of the Garda Síochána Western Region Road Safety Christmas Campaign.

The campaign, which began on December 1 and will run until January 4, aims to ensure that families do not have to suffer as the result of the death of a loved one on the roads.

Mc Canns Centra Moycullen celebrates winning Off Licence of the Year award

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

Mc Canns Centra Moycullen were delighted to receive the Centra Ireland Off Licence of the Year award. This is a great achievement for Serena Guihen, store manager, and John Grealish, owner; who were both delighted to win the award.  Delighted with the win, store manager Serena thanked her store team.

A winter’s tale of lone-parenting - from St V de P

Thu, Dec 18, 2014

(Academic Researcher and Social Justice Advocate on behalf of St Vincent de Paul)

When I first met Martina, it was mid December and reminders of the impending celebration were all around us  For those who  exclaim  ‘Christmas as a magical time of the year’ there are numerous  many hard-pressed families like Martina’s who know all too well the hardship of such occasions, for Martina is a single parent.  Martina didn’t plan it this way; she was in a loving relationship and worked full time, even with three children.

Prices and gender balance at centre of Leisureland meeting

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Proposed price hikes for users of Leisureland swimming pool have been called an “outrage” and look set to be the main focus of a special Galway City Council meeting tomorrow afternoon.

‘This Government resembles a substitute teacher who cannot control the class’

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

In a famous speech in 1992 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth referred to having just endured ‘an annus horribilis’. Well at Christmas 2014 any member of the Irish Government could make the very same statement.

‘I wanted something like an Irish version of Dante’s Inferno’

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Dark and audacious, Fisherman’s Blues, the rambunctious new novel from playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Mick Donnellan covers a myriad of genres from crime noir to comedy with an odd bit of religion for good measure.

Councillors give the green light for major road works in Salthill

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Major works to improve safety measures at a dangerous stretch of road in the Salthill area are to begin in the New Year. A detailed outline of the proposed work in the Maunsells Road/Taylor’s Hill and Rosary Lane areas was given to councillors at this week’s meeting of the Galway City Council.

Plans include boundary wall reconstruction, road widening, and a a new 100 metre footpath to be developed along the western side of Maunsells Road, adjustments to the footpath at the Taylor’s Hill/Maunsells Road junction, and a new bus shelter at the existing bus stop on the north side of Taylor’s Hill.

Farrell to take over from Ó Clochartaigh as SF standard bearer in Galway West?

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Galway West could elect its first Sinn Féin TD in almost a century come the 2016 General Election, but it could be new city councillor Máiréad Farrell instead of current party standard bearer Sen Trevor Ó Clochartaigh.

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