Ó Clochartaigh to launch Sinn Féin jobs plan

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Sinn Féin’s new job creation policy document, which proposes measures to create 156,000 jobs, will be launched by Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh in the Galway Peoples Resource Centre tomorrow at 4pm.

Entitled Jobs Plan – Enterprise Policy for the 21st Century, the document is a detailed 60 page stimulus package that sets out a comprehensive plan aimed at tackling the current unemployment crisis.

‘Follow your heart’, says ninety year-old priest who still works fulltime

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Seventy-six years ago Fr Sean Kilcoyne first thought of becoming a priest. He was in secondary school in Castlebar and wondered what it would be like to be a man of the cloth.

Search commences for Galway’s Vikings

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

If your name is Duffy or Doyle, your ancestors were Danish, if the name is Lynch or FitzGerald they were Norman, but the secret to your ancestry does not lie only in your surname.

County Mayor gets on board the ‘Out and Proud’ Road Show

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

The County Mayor, Cllr Thomas Welby, has this week launched Social Inclusion Awareness Week in Clann Family Resource Centre, Oughterard, an event which was held in conjunction with the launch of the ‘Out and Proud’ Road Show.

Hectic programme of events for Halloween week at Coole Park

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Families across the Galway region should reserve a few hours for the ‘Deireadh an Fomhair’ celebrations at Coole Park during the October Bank Holiday weekend. The line-up of events commences on Sunday October 28 with a multitude of activities to appeal to children collectively known as ‘Spooky Stuff For Kids’. Spooky Stuff For Kids consists of smelly spell cocktail and stick skeleton making, with an eerily themed scavenger hunt to finish the day. Children are invited to arrive bedecked in a Halloween costume but they do not have to dress up. The fun begins at 2.30pm and ends at 4pm.

Ballyloughane Road to get traffic calming measures

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Traffic calming measures are due to be installed on the Ballyloughane Road once the plans drawn up by the Galway City Council for the work is agreed by local residents.

Lackagh Apostolic Work display and sale

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Lackagh Apostolic Work Society is holding its annual display and sale in aid of the missions this Saturday and Sunday in the Lackagh Parish Centre.

Anyone wishing to donate any items can drop them into the Centre on Friday from 10am to 1pm. Home baking, jams and bric a brac are especially welcome.

Four Angry Men to debate the state of the nation

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Journalists Fintan O’Toole, Nick Webb, and Shane Ross, along with economist David McWilliams will be in Galway in December to hold a public talk on the state of the nation.

Car theft accused gets eleven months suspended

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A 23-year-old man, with 49 previous convictions, was given an 11 month suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week for the unauthorised taking of a vehicle.

Stars come together for charity single for Lily Mae

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’ has been recorded by a host of leading Irish singers as a charity single to raise funds for a seriously ill Galway girl.

Dusty Banjos celebrate major birthday milestone

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Dusty Banjos, the trad band and music session organisers, will hold a major 10th Birthday Session on Monday October 22 in The Western Hotel, Prospect Hill, from 9.30pm.

Lisbrook House protesters demand further talks with Justice Minister

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Lisbrook House residents and their supporters have not given up the fight to halt the closure of the asylum accommodation centre with this week seeing a delegation of more than 30 people march to the offices of a Galway West TD demanding that further consultations should take place.

The delegation, many members of the Lisbrook House Residents and Supporters Group, assembled at Eyre Square on Monday and marched to the constituency office of Fine Gael deputy Brian Walsh in Bohermore. While a peaceful demonstration was held outside two residents and one of the supporters went into the office and urged Deputy Walsh to contact the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, and halt proceedings. They also demanded that before any further action is taken regarding closure plans, a meeting between Oireachtas members, other political respresentatives from Galway, a delegation from Lisbrook House, and Minister Shatter should take place so that the concerns of residents can be fully heard and alternative options could be explored.

World pain experts to address Galway meeting

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

New advances in the diagnosis and treatment of common but often debilitating conditions such as migraine will be discussed at the Irish Pain Society’s annual scientific meeting at the Radisson Hotel on Saturday.

Galway’s female entrepreneurs attend ‘Going for Growth’ National Forum

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Seventy Irish women entrepreneurs, including entrepreneurs from Galway, who run businesses with a combined turnover in excess of €75 million came together last week to attend the annual ‘Going for Growth’ National Forum in County Kildare.

Put Ó Conaire back in Eyre Square says Connolly

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

“Confining” the statue of Pádraic Ó Conaire to the Galway City Museum and abandoning the idea of a bronze state to the writer is “an insult to his memory”.

Public debate to ask if Jesus was crucified

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

The crucifixion of Jesus is one of the central symbols of western culture and an established historical fact, but in Asia it is a contested issue and one open to historical and archaeological doubt.

For Christians, the crucifixion is central to their faith. For Islam, that Jesus did not suffer a criminals’ death on the cross is of major importance to their religion. So who is right?

Poor Clares publish a book to calm the soul

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A city based enclosed order of nuns has produced a book aimed at calming and nourishing the soul.

International plaudits for Galway based stocktaking business

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

A Galway based firm has become the first stocktaking company in Ireland to achieve the internationally recognised International Organisation for Standardisation (IS0) 9001:2008 quality management system certification.

Speak Irish while you have coffee at McCambridge’s

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Galwegians keen to have a chance to speak and practice their Irish can look forward to McCambridge’s on Shop Street being added to Conradh na Gaeilge’s Is Leor Beirt scheme.

Is Leor Beirt or It Takes Two is a national network of conversation circles set up by Conradh na Gaeilge. It entails a group of people meeting in a local cafe or in their workplace restaurant to chat together in Irish on a regular basis.

Galway woman scoops top prize at Irish Blog Awards

Thu, Oct 18, 2012

Claregalway woman, Móna Wise swept the boards at the first ever Blog Awards Ireland event held in the Osprey Hotel, Naas, Co Kildare on Saturday night, October 13.

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