Save Mountbellew Agricultural Show

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The Save Mountbellew Agricultural Show campaign has been launched to try to ensure a future for one of the oldest and most popular agricultural shows in County Galway.

Connaughton welcomes additional resource teaching posts in schools

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Five hundred additional posts are to be created in schools to cope with a substantial increase in demand for resource teaching hours.

A bit of bubbly and a touch of style

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Customers of Concepts Ladies Fashions in Oranmore are in for a treat this evening as part of its four year birthday celebrations. The style haven in the Carraig Lair Shopping Centre in Oranmore will host its much anticipated customer evening at their store.

Culture and tradition to be celebrated next week at Spiddal 2013

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Traidphicnic is back for the second year. The festival, which celebrates Irish culture and traditions, will run in Spiddal on Friday July 5 and Saturday July 6.

Missed outpatient appointments cost Galway and Roscommon hospitals €3m last year

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Last year almost 40,000 patients did not attend appointments or notify the hospitals in the Galway and Roscommon University Hospital Group that they could not attend in advance. This cost the hospital group over €3 million in lost time preparing for appointments for patients who did not turn up.

Ahmadiyya Muslims to host intercultural exhibition in Galway

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

An exhibition covering issues of religion, interculturalism, integration, and diversity, opens in the Ballybane Library on Tuesday.

Charity golf tournament tomorrow

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Youth mental health charity Jigsaw and the Abalta school for Autism are set to benefit from a charity golf tournament.

Why I cannot support the Government’s Abortion Bill

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Few pieces of legislation in the history of Dáil Éireann have been the subject of more polarising and divisive debate than the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013.

The Strypes to play festival Big Top

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The Strypes, the Cavan blues and r’n’b band who have won the admiration of Dave Grohl and Elton John, will play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top next month.

Hospice ascent of Reek a great success

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

The recent annual Croagh Patrick climb in aid of Galway Hospice was a huge success, setting a new record with more than 1,000 climbers taking part, an increase of 800 on the previous year.

Galway Film Fleadh marks quarter of a century with bumper programme

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto, Irish star Saoirse Ronan, and Sex Pistols documentary and film maker Julian Temple, are coming to Galway for the 25th Galway Film Fleadh from Tuesday July 9 to Sunday 14.

The fleadh was launched in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Tuesday and this year’s programme features the usual high standards of Irish and world cinema, including feature length films, shorts, animations, and documentaries.

JKF - 50th Anniversary of presidential Visit to Galway

Thu, Jun 27, 2013

It lasted only an hour, but for a generation of Galwegians it was a momentous occasion, one that gave a city and a population emerging from the oppressive 1950s, a much needed boost of confidence. It was the day US president John F Kennedy came to visit.

Walsh tells Taoiseach and colleagues of potentially career-ending decision

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Brian Walsh has become the third member of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party and the second Galway West politician to declare he will vote against the forthcoming Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill.

Threats made to staff at UHG where significant improvements have been made, meeting hears

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

A report by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) into the death of Savita Halappanavar is due to be published by the end of the summer, the first public meeting of the board of the Galway and Roscommon University Hospitals Group heard this week.

50 years since JFK, but it may as well be a hundred

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Over the course of the next week, you will be regaled with anecdotes about the day the most famous man in the world came to Galway and how for one day, everything came to a standstill. And how the snapshots in our mind, whether they be colour or black and white were forever crystallised on those heady days and in the sad months that followed, as reality became legend and legend became myth.

Men questioned about €400,000 Tuam drugs haul

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Two men were being questioned at Galway Garda Station this week after a major joint operation resulted in the seizure in the Tuam area of herbal cannabis worth an estimated street value of €400,000.

Yeats’ tower at Ballylee to reopen in September

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

The famous holiday home of WB Yeats and his family, Thoor Ballylee, near Gort, could soon be in the hands of a local interest group and the county council.

Athenry doctor leads the way in treating heart valve disease

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Brian P Griffin, cardiologist at the world famous Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, who is a native of Athenry and graduate of NUI Galway, visited the Croí Heart and Stroke Centre in Galway last weekend to speak to doctors and nurses on current developments in the treatment of heart valve disease.

Remove graffiti on Fisheries Tower now demands McNelis

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Graffiti that was sprayed on the Fisheries Tower must be removed immediately Labour city councillor Niall McNelis has demanded.

Galway families face surge in health insurance costs warns Kitt

Thu, Jun 20, 2013

Galway families could see their health insurance soar by a further 30 per cent under new legislation being introduced by the Health Minister James Reilly.

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