Barna crèche scoops national award

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

The Den Crèche in Barna was one of 12 crèche providers in the country to receive the prestigious All Ireland Centre of Excellence award at a recent function in Dublin.

The award was presented by Minister Brendan Smith. The All Ireland Centre of Excellence programme is aimed at supporting and developing quality daycare services throughout Ireland.

Welcome to your latest Lidl

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

A warm welcome from the staff at the latest Lidl store which has opened at Doughiska.

Prioritise safety works on Coolough Road, urges O’Flaherty

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

The long awaited upgrade to the often dangerous Coolough Road took a step closer to reality after the Galway City Council purchased the land near the road at Crestwood.

Gardai issue warrning on home security

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Householders in Galway are continuing to provide opportunities to burglars despite numerous warnings from gardai.

Grammar School rent could be ‘put to better use’

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Instead of forking out more than €720,000 to rent office space at the Grammasr School, the Galway City Council should put that money to better use in this “time of budget constraints”.

Not even James Bond can tempt Connacht girls

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Fewer than half of Connacht women would consider flying off to some far-flung country for a James Bond-style romancing and adventure, but only just, as they would put job, accommodation, and financial security above all else.

Install water filtration system for Old Mervue now, says O’Flaherty

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Water filtration systems must be installed for the 251 houses in Old Mervue as City Hall cannot keep “dumping the bottled water” into the homes of volunteers and expecting them to distribute it.

Do you need help with Junior Cert Irish?

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Conradh na Gaeilge will host a six week Irish course for Junior Certificate students to help them improve their Irish.

Public entitled to sit at bus stop in peace, says judge

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Drinking at bus stops in Eyre Square is “very intimidating for the public who are entitled to wait for their bus without being confronted by people with cans”, said Judge Mary Fahy before fining a local man €900.

Public lecture on marriage

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

A public lecture on the influence of third parties in marriage will take place in the Christ Apostolic Church, Vineyard of Comfort, Unit 23, Riverside Industrial Estate this Saturday.

Senior Help Line celebrates tenth anniversary

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

More than 60,000 calls have been received by Senior Help Line which is celebrating its 10th anniversary with its first ever national conference in Galway.

Ard Bia to showcase Irish artists in Berlin

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

ARD BIA Berlin - the German based gallery connected to Galway’s Ard Bia Restaurant and Gallery at Nimmo’s - is presenting work by Irish artists in an important art showcase in the German capital.

Gael Scoil Dara gets site for new school

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Gael Scoil Dara in Renmore has been offered a site in Renmore that will allow it to construct a purpose built national Gael school - something that has been mooted for the last 25 years.

COPE Galway launches Christmas initiatives

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

A better festive season for everyone is the aim of COPE Galway who launched its Christmas initiatives yesterday.

King’s Head to celebrate Halloween

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

The 800-year-old King’s Head will host a Halloween party tomorrow (Friday) with prizes and giveaways aplenty.

Charity coffee morning for Ballinasloe

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

The Stargazer Lily Foundation will hold a Halloween family fun coffee morning in aid of Galway Hospice, Portiuncula Patient Care, and Cancer Research Ireland tomorrow (Friday).

Last call for old bras for charity bra chain

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Chain a bra fundraising is nearing the end of its old bra collection in aid of Cancer Care West and Mayo Cancer Support. The bras will be used in the group’s attempt to break the Guinness world record for the longest unbroken chain of bras next month.

Connacht people unaware dyslexia is a disability

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Nearly half of people surveyed in Connacht were unaware that dyslexia is a disability, according to research to be published by the Association for Higher Education Access and Disability (AHEAD).

Home thoughts from abroad

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

It was a twofold mission — to do the best you could for yourself and to do the best you could for the folks at home. Margaret Craven was talking about emigration from Ireland the way it used to be in the 1960s. She knows. She left her native Letterard in Connemara as a teenager. She was then Margaret Connolly and, like thousands of others of her generation, the bells of emigration were tolling for her early in her life. She was speaking in Portland in the state of Maine in America last week. She is now a state representative for the Democrats in the state parliament in Maine; next week she will almost certainly be a state senator. She has an election next Tuesday and the bells are tolling for her Republican opponent. But last Monday it was the bells in the Church of St Dominick in Portland that tolled and told the story of the Irish in the state of Maine. And it brought together many elements of the Irish diaspora.

Margaret Craven remarked that the emigrants of old would hardly have ever thought that a grandson of Eamon de Valera and a minister in an Irish government would come to Maine to officially open a venue for the Irish. Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív was in Portland to cut the ribbon and speak about the role of the Irish diaspora.

Co-operation, not conflict, is the future for Russia and the West, says Galway based Russian

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

Is the world in the grip of a new Cold War? Should we fear Russia again as we did in the 1970s and 1980s? Many would think so given the growing unease in the Western world of a resurgent Russia under the former president and now prime minister Vladimir Putin.

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