Monaghans Galway sets €30,000 target for charity fundraising

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

Tuam Road based garage and car dealership, Monaghan and Sons, has announced a fundraising campaign which will see a donation from the profit of all car sales and service invoices in its workshop to three local charities.

New technique to help women find their voice in workplace lauded by Galway senator

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

A new technique designed to give women a voice in the workplace has been successfully utilised by Galway Senator Pauline O’Reilly in the Oireachtas.

For many years, women have struggled to have a voice, particularly in the workplace where their male counterparts were being heard above them, promoted ahead of them, becoming more successful. Balancing roles between parenthood and career ambitions, many women struggle to feel heard, despite all the changes in recent years.

University of Galway appoints new Storyteller-in-Residence

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

University of Galway’s Centre for Irish Studies has announced the appointment of Máirín Mhic Lochlainn as Storyteller-in-Residence for this year.

Traffic changes in Moycullen as roundabouts are ‘tied in,’ says Kyne

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

Traffic delays can be expected in Moycullen in the coming weeks as the new bypass roundabouts are to be ‘tied in’ to the existing N59 initially at Clydagh and then Drimcong from early February.

According to Sen Sean Kyne, kerbing on the Clydagh roundabout is to take place this week and tarmac surfacing will occur next week, weather permitting.

Here for the bear — Original Teddy Bear Hospital returns

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

The Sláinte Society in University of Galway have announced the return of the much loved Teddy Bear Hospital to the Bailey Allen Hall on University of Galway campus.

Why do we make people invisible?

Thu, Jan 26, 2023

I suppose I am not unique in thinking that the times when I have been the most lonely in my life have not been solitary, but those when you are among crowds and invisible. It is the sensation you get in large cities, when you are invisible in plain view.

Societies by their nature have a way of sorting out who they want to engage with, discarding those who disinterest them. We all have a habit of looking through people, avoiding eye contact, not even offering people the courtesy of an acknowledgment of their existence. And everyone has their reasons for it.

Ireland West Airport is flying

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Ireland West Airport is flying. Literally.
When I visited the airport this week to chat with MD Joe Gilmore, things could not be more different than they had been this time last year. Back then, the airport was closed, the Omnicron variant was dominant and hopes that the airport would come anywhere near their record 2019 figures of 800,000 passengers seemed fanciful.

Nick Cave and Benedict XVI on music and mystery

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

The late emeritus Pope Benedict XVI once wrote: “The art of music is uniquely called to instil hope in the human spirit, so scarred and sometimes wounded by the earthly condition.” It is fascinating to compare this insight with the reflections found in singer songwriter Nick Cave’s new book Faith, Hope and Carnage.

Benedict wrote of the mystery of music. One of its first sources is the experience of love. When men were seized by love, another dimension of being was unveiled to them. And this also drove them to express themselves in a new way. Poetry, song, and music in general are born from this.

O’Reilly welcomes record number of retrofitting enrolments

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly said she is delighted that the target to retrofit 27,000 homes was met in 2022, adding that this year the aim is to retrofit 37,000 homes.

Moneysave wins successive Best Health Insurance Broker awards

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Moneysave wins Best Health Insurance Broker for the second year in a row and continues the acquisition trail as turnover jumps record levels.

Talk on Civil War in Galway and the executions at Athlone Barracks

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

On 20 January 1923, six months into the civil war, four anti-treaty IRA Volunteers from Galway – Martin J. Burke (25), Hubert Collins (23), Stephen Joyce (29), and Michael Walsh (26) – were executed at Athlone Barracks, having been found guilty by a Free State Military Court of the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.

Galway boosted with 20 new vets

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

The growing demand for veterinary services has been boosted with a rise in newly registered vets in Galway.

Local scientists discover potential new method to treat superbug infections

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Scientists at University of Galway have detailed a new discovery with the potential to improve treatment options for superbug MRSA infections with penicillin-type antibiotics that have become ineffective on their own.

Happiness as stolen dog reunited with Galway family after two years

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

A local family whose dog was stolen two years has spoken of the delight at the news that she was found in Dublin and traced back to them using micro-chip technology.

Popular astronomy festival returns to Galway next week

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

AstroFest, Galway Astronomy Club’s annual festival of all things astronomy, will return next week after a three year hiatus.

The festival will take place in the Menlo Park Hotel on Saturday January 28, and promises a packed programme of talks, along with trade displays, photographic displays, and a lunchtime workshop with Tom O’Donoghue, one of Ireland’s best known astrophotographers.

Call for roundabout redesign after latest serious accident

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

A cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with an articulated lorry on the Old Dublin Road in Renmore this week. Gardai are appealing to people who witnessed the incident to come forward.

Stretch in the evening gives us hope

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

It was Emily Dickinson who wrote that ‘hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.’

Call for roundabout re-design after latest serious accident

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

A cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with an articulated lorry on the Old Dublin Road in Renmore this week. Gardai are appealing to people who witnessed the incident to come forward.

O'Flaherty urges attendance for public briefing meeting for proposed Bus Connects

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Independent City Councillor Terry O’Flaherty is urging people living on the city’s east side to study a proposed new layout for the main road running through the area and make their views known on the plan.

BusConnects Galway: Dublin Road is a continuous 4km corridor of high quality pedestrian, cyclist and public transport facilities running east of the Moneenageisha Junction to the Doughiska Road Junction.

Maritime historian to give talk on reviving Ireland's oldest racing class

Thu, Jan 19, 2023

The focus of the event will be the history of the Dublin Bay 21s, a project which has brought seven 120-year-old one-design keelboats back to light and the plan for their future use and custodianship.

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