Celebrate with family and friends this New Year’s Eve at The Ardilaun

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Ring in the New Year in style at the New Year’s Eve Banquet at the Ardilaun Hotel, Galway with family and friends this year, which entails a relaxed night out with champagne, festive delicacies and a live music jazz reception on arrival, followed by a five-course gourmet dinner, with wine.

Cois Cladaigh concert to help Galway Simon

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Cois Cladaigh are holding their Christmas concert, ‘STARS’, this Saturday  December 13 at 8pm in the St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway.

Twenty five years swimming for COPE Galway’s annual Christmas Day swim

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

The annual COPE Galway Christmas Day Swim will this year be 25 years in existence and the local charity is calling on all Galwegians to once again don the togs and make a splash in order to raise much needed funds. It is aiming to raise €50,000 from the swim to help vulnerable and isolated people in Galway.

The COPE Galway Christmas Day swim, which is this year sponsored by Castle Print, aims to raise money to help fund their local services in homelessness, domestic violence and for older people. The swim will take place at Blackrock, Salthill from 10am to 1pm.

Specsavers opens new Galway store

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Specsavers opened its latest store at the Galway Shopping Centre, Headford Road last week creating five new jobs for the area and making it the 48th Specsavers store to open in Ireland.

Final call for big hearted fighters

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

The Irish Heart Foundation has issued a final call for boxers – male and female – to take part in its fourth annual Big Heart Fight Night.  The Radisson Blu Hotel and Spa will once again host the event on Friday March 13 and registration is now open for interested boxers at www.irishheart.ie/boxing.

Indulge yourself at the Shore Island Spa at the Lough Rea Hotel

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Shore Island Spa offers a wonderful range of treatments from beauty essentials to indulgent spa days. Set in an oasis of calm, their exquisite spa promises an experience of complete relaxation and indulgence. Their  aim is to deliver a relaxing and uplifting experience for each and every one of their valued customers.

JCI’s Techgate event hailed a great success

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

JCI’s Techgate event last week at Monroes included some of leading start-ups from the West of Ireland as well as some of the better established technology companies showcasing their products and brands at the Expo.. Featuring eight speakers with outstanding talks covering a wide range of topics with representatives from Google, boards.ie, OnePageCRM and Ex Ordo to name a few, Techgate also supported local charity COPE and the Galway Autism Partnership.  

Giant snowglobe attracting thousands into Eyre Square Centre

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Eyre Square Shopping Centre is enjoying a busy festive period and Centre Manager Avril Smith predicts a strong shopping season ahead with thousands flowing through the doors of the centre in search of tremendous choice and bargains.

Fill your Christmas sacks with Outback Jacks

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Outback Jacks is an outdoor store independently and locally owned for people who love Outdoor Gear and Active Wear. Outback Jacks is open seven days a week till Christmas; Mon - Sat 9am-6pm / Sun 1pm-6pm. Located in Ballybane, Galway beside Garrys Cycles or McDonoghs hardwear, withFree onsite parking outside the shop.

Leisureland to reopen this weekend after closure

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

Leisureland’s facilities, which were badly damaged by flooding are set to reopen on December 13 after the public facility received extensive refurbishment to the gym and pool and changing areas.  

Elysium therapist wins Best Facial Therapist at national awards

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

One of Galway’s best known Day Spas, Elysium in Moycullen has won the Best Facial Therapist in Ireland award at the 2014 Irish Spa Awards. Elysium senior therapist Sinead Conneely was selected as the overall national winner for her in depth knowledge, passion and experience in advanced skincare.

The Irish Spa Awards honour the highest achievers in relative categories, with the aim to inspire future excellence across the industry by promoting best practice. Elysium Day Spa was also shortlisted in the top 10 Best Day Spa/Salon in Ireland and along with Sinead were Galway’s only contenders.

The G Stop opens in Eyre Square Shopping Centre

Thu, Dec 11, 2014

The G Counter based in The Wellpark Centre is delighted to announce the opening of their pop up coffee counter “G Stop” at The Whitehall Entrance, in the Eyre Square Shopping Centre.

Water charges motion fails to get hearing at council meeting

Tue, Dec 09, 2014

A motion demanding the Galway City Council call for the abolition of water charges and not comply with demands from Irish Water to hand over tenants' information failed to even get a hearing at last night’s city council meeting.

Unconditional Love: A mother’s story

Mon, Dec 08, 2014

Sophie Loren once said “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child” and that is most certainly true of a lady whose story I am about to relate.

Marcia (not her real name) is in her thirties and finds herself in the unenviable position of being all things to many people. Together with her husband, who is unwell at times, she struggles to rear her five children now in primary and secondary education while providing full-time care to her Mum who suffers with dementia and who has regressed to her own childhood. Marcia doesn’t complain, instead she wants to convey the responsibility that accrues on becoming a parent.

Geoghegan Quinn denies Ansbacher bank account claims made under Dail privilege

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

Former Minister, European Commissioner and Galway West TD Maire Geoghegan-Quinn strongly denied last evening that she had an Ansbacher account or a Guinness and Mahon bank account.

Éamon Ó Cuív - the man to revive FF’s Galway and national fortunes?

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

The national media is putting pressure on the two great Civil War parties to call a truce following the next general election so that an historic Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil government can be formed. This would-be Fianna Gael coalition – political commentators argue – is essential if the State is not to fall into the clutches of Gerry ‘Grizzly’ Adams.

‘Galway has something between a tolerance and an appetite for experiment’

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

December will be a hectic month for Tommy Tiernan as he undertakes a seven date tour across all corners of County Galway, performing his new show Out Of The Whirlwind. The show, he says, will be a mixture of “storytelling and improv”, but this is also likely to be the last run of ‘world tour of Galway’ styled shows Tommy will do.

Connolly says Government plans for housing are ‘discriminatory’

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

Not only is the Government building a “small number” of houses over six years to deal with the current crisis, but it is determined to “copper-fasten” insecurity of tenure as an integral part of its housing policy.

Galway miracle tot stars in charity calendar

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

A Galway toddler who was born weighing only 1.5lb has been chosen to feature in a charity calendar which is aiming to raise €40,000 to support premature babies and their parents.

Tuam man went to buy heroin in Dublin flat when gardai raided it

Thu, Dec 04, 2014

A Tuam man who was in a Dublin flat when gardaí raided it and caught another man bagging up heroin for street dealing has been remanded on bail pending sentence next February.

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