‘Pride is a chance to celebrate, but it is always twinned with protest’

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

“Pride has become that special time when we get to affirm our dignity and our equality, and increase our visibility. It’s in opposition to the shame and social stigma many of us grew up with.”

CO2 monitoring indoors to curb the spread of Covid 19

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Carbon dioxide is generated by the exhaled air from people, air that has been in close contact with lung tissue. Alongside CO2 the exhalation also contains tiny liquid droplets (aerosols) which can float in the air.

These droplets will contain any virus particles present in the lungs which can stay present in a room for several hours.High CO2 levels in a room mean there is a higher chance of transmission of a virus such as Covid 19 if an infected person is in the room. Transmission can happen over short distances and a way to help mitigate against the spread of infection can be implemented using CO2 monitors.CO2 monitors enable continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide concentrations in the air helping to control air quality. When the measured level of carbon dioxide rises above a threshold, an alarm is triggered, and appropriate actions can be taken to increase ventilation.

Campion Insurance office opened in Galway

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton TD, officially opened Campion Insurance office on 5 Merchant’s Road, Galway City last week.

Cairde Othair na Gaillimhe — supporting Galway hospitals

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Cairde Othair na Gaillimhe (Friends of Galway Patients) have launched a Fund Raising campaign to pay for urgently needed projects at GUH, Merlin Park and Portiuncula Hospital. This ongoing campaign may be supported by once off donations at www.cog.ie or by joining our Monthly Draw. (You can choose which hospital you wish to support) You can use the QR code below to enter.

The hospital service throughout the country has had a particularly challenging year. COVID -19 has been extremely difficult to deal with in all environments. In a hospital where you know the virus has being brought to you by the sick patients the issue of working with that hazard and preventing others spreading or catching the disease on a 24/7 basis would test anyone’s patience to say the least.

Loughrea Hotel and Spa to host wedding showcase

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

The multi-awardwinning Lough Rea Hotel and Spa is one of the most highly recommended and well known wedding venues in Galway, situated just outside the quaint town of Loughrea overlooking Loughrea Lake.

Canney concerned for school secretaries as Fórsa rejects ‘derisory’ offer

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Independent TD Sean Canney has called on the Government to immediately intercede and ensure that the Department of Education offer a realistic solutions to meet government commitment to end pay inequalities once and for all for schools secretaries and caretakers.

Peak to Peak Challenge to honour Enda Flaherty next week

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

On Saturday August 14, 25 cyclists along with a support crew will depart Peak townland in Claregalway in memory of Enda Flaherty who passed away in August 2020. The cycle will take them on the 80km route through Ballinrobe, Partry and Westport to the foot of Croagh Patrick where the group will then ascend the Reek. With that small challenge finished, they will then return to their bikes and make their way home to Peak once again.

Connemara West wishes GMIT success in application for university status

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

At its monthly Board meeting held last week, Connemara West wished Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) every success in its recent application as part of the Connacht Ulster Alliance (CUA) to establish a technological university in Connacht/Ulster. The application was made to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD. In addition to GMIT, the Alliance comprises the Institute of Technology Sligo, and Letterkenny Institute of Technology.

Joyous scenes as Moycullen man is ordained at Galway Cathedral

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

On a day when Moycullen celebrated the arrival of its Olympic medal into the parish, it had a second joyous event when local man John Gerard Action was ordaind a priest at Galway Cathedral.

Zina services — for care of all your devices

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Zina services — Phone repair and unlocking, printing and photocopying. Laptop and table repair buy and sell devices and accessories

Zina is located at Unit 8, Terryland Retail Park (above Paintrite), Galway 085-7558482 or email [email protected]

Galway County Council launches 2021 anti dog fouling campaign

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Educating and influencing the behaviour of dog owners regarding dog fouling will be to the fore as Galway County Council launch the new Anti-Dog Fouling Campaign ‘If They Poop, You Scoop!’. The campaign is set to firmly emphasise that dog fouling is the responsibility of the dog owner/walker and that they must clean up after their dog.

Galway-Dublin 20-X20 bus petition gathers over 1200 signatures

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

A petition launched by Sinn Féin to Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan calling for restoration of the Bus Éireann 20-X20 Expressway service, which stopped in Craughwell, Loughrea, Aughrim and Ballinasloe, has gathered over 1200 signatures so far, including both physical and online signatures.

On telling ourselves stories

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Plato’s dialogue Timaeus has bequeathed to us a famous phrase, eik?s muthos or “likely story.” Today we use the idiom “a likely story” to dismiss what we are told as a “tall tale.” But, here in the 4th century BC, the phrase refers to an articulation of possibility or a plausible report like a myth or a fable that offers an explanation for some mystery by way of stories and images. It makes perfect sense this phrase appears prominently in the Timaeus, for that dialogue is a story about the formation of the universe; of course, there are no eyewitnesses to that event to whom we can turn for a description.

The important question becomes - why attend to likely stories at all? The point is not about whether a likely story can or should be entirely empirically accurate. Rather, it is about how helpful such likely stories are to us in living well, wisely, and virtuously. For example, likely stories are beneficial in the scientific method when hypotheses, the analytical versions of the “likely story” because they permit us to explore our world in ways we could otherwise never do. They are especially valuable as fairy tales and fiction when they paint value-saturated pictures for us of types of characters, situations, actions, and outcomes.

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Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Athenry Cancer Care building damaged in burglary
Gardai in Athenry are investigating a break-in at the Athenry Cancer Care building which was vandalised during the incident last week.

Petition to save Kinvara post office gathers pace

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Locals in Kinvara have opened an online petition in a bid to ensure that the village does not lose its post office later this month. Those behind the petition say that the impending vacancy in the post office was not widely advertised in any local or national press and therefore, the lack of interest in taking it over is not reflective of reality.

Department of Transport urges development of Quiet Man Greenway

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Fine Gael Deputy Ciaran Cannon has welcomed a submission to the Galway County Development Plan by Minister Eamon Ryan and the Department of Transport, urging Galway Co Council to develop the Quiet Man Greenway connecting Athenry to Milltown.

Atlantic Studio at former airport to create hundreds of jobs

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

Backers of the state of the art 40,000 sq ft film and TV studio to be built at the former Galway Airport at Carnmore have been given the green light to move to planning stage with the objective of being open for production next summer.

QuinnBet free bet for 0-0 draws in all Premier League matches

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

The Premier League takes centre stage soon with newly promoted Brentford hosting Arsenal in the season opener on Friday August 13.

The odds suggest that it’s Manchester City’s title to lose again, with QuinnBet setting odds of (4/6) for the champions, with the main contenders Liverpool (5/1), Chelsea (5/1) and Man Utd (8/1).

Time for us all to spread the soundness

Thu, Aug 05, 2021

When we look back at the history of this time in a decade or more, we will see in a graph the ebbs and flows of curves of the national mood. The initial shock, the coping time when loaves of banana bread fed the five thousand, the novelty of the new situation, the loneliness of our towns and villages with all places of community shut off; the realisation that jobs were lost and may never come back. The emptiness of those Sundays when we were thrown back to the time when nothing happened at weekends without sport or worship, when people spent time together and ate meals at home, cooked in their own kitchens.

And now we are at another phase — when hope seems close, but like a dinghy just off shore, it comes close and then is carried out again on a new wave. So we watch at this shore as the situation keeps everchanging. Arguably, it is at this time that we need each other more than ever. Last winter when the normal loneliness of the long nights was elongated by the restrictions, we all answered the cause and looked out for each other. Now, at the height of holidaytime, with the sun shining into the night and day arriving sooner than it should, there is no reason why we should let up.