Galway Camera Club’s new season starts tonight
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The Galway Camera Club’s 2009/2010 season opens tonight with a cheese and wine reception in the White Room in the GMIT Campus, Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark.
Read more ...Atlantic Galway wins international award
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The achievements of Galway language school Atlantic Language were celebrated on Saturday night last at the annual Language Travel Star Awards in London where the company was named Best Language School in Europe.
Read more ...New child and adolescent counselling service
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A new and innovative counselling service is being launched in Galway this month.
Read more ...Medical device company expands in Spiddal
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Cambus Medical have announced the creation of more than 60 new jobs at their medical device company in Spiddal, bringing the total workforce to over 85 people.
Read more ...Twenty new jobs for Moycullen
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Local businessman Frank Heneghan is set to create 20 new jobs with the opening of The Co-op, a new bar/restaurant/venue in Moycullen on September 18.
Read more ...Multiple sclerosis fundraiser
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A fundraising event in aid of multiple sclerosis will take place in The Ardilaun on Wednesday September 18 from 8pm.
Read more ...Ireland’s best kept secret now on DVD
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
It’s one of the west’s best kept secrets, but perhaps not for much longer.
Read more ...Salthill Community Arts Festival line-up
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Salthill is set to celebrate the city’s vibrant literary scene as Galway’s many writers and poets - both published and aspiring - read at the Salthill Community Arts Festival.
Read more ...Will a gender quota address the lack of women in politics?
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Since the re-establishment of the Galway Borough Council in 1937, very few women have been elected to the Galway City Council or Galway Corporation, as it was then known.
Read more ...The ball is in the Yes campaign’s court
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The American columnist and wit Franklin P Adams noted that elections are won “chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody”.
Read more ...Big demand for swine flu seminarBig demand for swine flu seminar
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
An “unprecedented” number of businesses in Galway and Mayo have signed up to attend a swine flu seminar in the city next week.
Read more ...Eyre Square Centre market
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Coinciding with National Organic Week, the Eyre Square Centre is launching a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday market on Thursday September 17 at 1pm.
Read more ...Paranoid schizophrenic jailed for nine months
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
A paranoid schizophrenic who ripped wires out of a boat, threw stools in a pub, and threatened to blow up a garda statio, has been sentenced to a total of nine months.
Read more ...Chinese night in aid of Croi
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The Chinese restaurant, the Royal Villa in Salthill, has teamed up with local heart charity Croí to host a novel Chinese evening on Tuesday September 29.
Read more ...HMS Bounty to star at the Galway Oyster Festival
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
The most photographed square rigged sail ship in the world, the HMS Bounty, will be part of this year’s Galway International Oyster Festival.
Read more ...Soviets had their eyes on Galway
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
During the Cold War era Ireland was economically poor, everything was State owned, run, and operated, and the interiors of public buildings seemed to be covered in linoleum and Formica.
Read more ...Castle Print and Galway Chamber team up
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Castle Print and the Galway Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to produce the Chamber Newsletter.
Read more ...Showjump for charity
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Multiple Sclerosis Society, Western Region has been chosen as the charity to benefit from a special showjumping event.
Read more ...Online poll for businesses
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Small and medium sized businesses which have been refused credit by the banks are being asked to take part in an online poll by Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy Eames.
Read more ...Protests likely if Galwegians feel new taxes are too much
Thu, Sep 10, 2009
Galwegians could be taking to the streets in protest before the end of the year if the combined affects of NAMA, taxes on child benefit and water services, and the expected savage Budget punish ordinary people for the recklessness of the banks, property developers, and the Government.
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