Home loan scheme requirements need to be relaxed

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

Requirements of applicants seeking a loan under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme should be relaxed (RIHL) according to Tuam area councillor Karey McHugh Farag.

Under current conditions, those wishing to be issued with a loan from the scheme must have mortgage rejection letters from two different banks.

DV8 COMES TO GALWAY!!

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

DV8 Fashion opens in Galway Eyre Square Shopping Centre Friday 28th February. DV8 Fashion is a UK and Ireland based Fashion company with over 50 high street stores and a highly secure website stocking over 100 young fashion clothing and footwear brands in one destination.

Fantasy Football round 28 preview

Wed, Feb 26, 2020

Another weekend and another round of Premier League games completed. Frank Lampard's Chelsea secured a valuable win over Spurs in the race for fourth spot. The match was marred by VAR controversy as Giovani Lo Celso was inexplicably allowed to stay on the field after raking his studs down Cesar Azpilicueta's leg.

Augustine Hill — a new neighbourhood in a new Galway

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Over the past few months I have opined and received many responses on the need for a big discussion on how Galway will be shaped in the next 10 years, because the next 10, and the opportunities it allows, will shape what will be achieved in the next one hundred.

New streets and plazas as Augustine Hill is revealed

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

A planning application has today been lodged for the eight-acre infill development site adjacent to Ceannt Train Station in Galway city centre that will see the creation of eleven new streets and four new civic spaces in a development that will create a new neighbourhood in the heart of the city.

NUIG accused of 'exploiting' students over controversial rent hike

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

NUI Galway's decision to hike student accommodation rents by four per cent has been condemned as exploitative and a move that will potentially bar many young people from accessing university education.

Leading LGBT+ organisations in Galway to receive Government funding

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

More than €12,000 in Government funding is to go towards two leading LGBT+ organisations in Galway, which one TD has welcomed as a move to helping combat homophobia and prejudice.

GLUAS team welcomes report saying Galway is 'mathematically suitable' for light rail

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Galway city, because of its "linear shape" makes it "mathematically suitable" for the development of a cost effective light rail system, according to a report by an NUI Galway mathematician.

Augustine Hill to meet top sustainability commitments

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Augustine Hill is aiming for One Planet Living endorsement, with a One Planet Action Plan designed by Bioregional to ensure that the development meets key sustainability commitments.

University to host Travellers in Education event

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

NUI Galway will celebrate Irish Traveller Ethnicity Day by hosting the ‘Travellers in Education: Building a Sense of Belonging’ event on Wednesday, 26 February.

Climate change wasn't the focus of the election, but it must be the focus of the next Government

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

It is often said that the environment suffers in Ireland, and indeed on the planet, because of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. In order to be able to concentrate on things outside of keeping us alive, we need to feel well fed, healthy, and have a roof over our heads.

Alice Mary Higgins to seek re-election to the Seanad

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Alice-Mary Higgins has been "a remarkably effective and progressive" member of Seanad Éireann, "with a sharp eye for human rights", and who has the potential to continue "invaluable and reforming work" in the upper house.

Eleven new streets and four new civic spaces in Augustine Hill

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

A planning application has today been lodged for the eight-acre infill development site adjacent to Ceannt Train Station in Galway city centre that will see the creation of 11 new streets and four new civic spaces. The development company is a joint venture between Galway-based Edward Capital and London-based Summix Capital. The neighbourhood, deriving its name from an historic name for the area is to be known as Augustine Hill, and will deliver 376 homes in an exciting mixed-use expansion of the city centre.

Galway Freemasons to hold charity fundraising dinner

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

The Simon Community, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and the RNLI are the chosen charities to benefit from this year’s Freemasons’ Gala Dinner which will take place in the Clayton Hotel on Thursday March 5 at 7pm.

Freemasons have been part of Galway life since 1733 and are the longest continually meeting club in Galway city and county. The Grand Lodge of Ireland holds four meetings per year and have chosen Galway on this occasion to signal support for the city’s City of Culture 2020 status.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a seasonal spring lunch for Self Help Africa

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Paul and Mary Grealish of The King’s Head Bistro in Galway’s Latin Quarter, together with Ronan Scully of Self Help Africa, are hosting a special International Women’s Day lunch in aid of Self Help Africa on Sunday March 8.

Helping sick children have fun

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

A children’s charity which provides play and fun for sick children in hospitals is seeking play volunteers to help out at University Hospital Galway.

Módh Eile within weeks of opening its doors

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

On Monday afternoon, I visited Modh Eile as a guest of COPE Galway. It is the perhaps one of the last times that the media will see inside it fully, because from next month it will become the temporary and private home of many families who experience domestic violence in Galway every year and who require a place to flee to, receive respite, to be cosseted. A place of great privacy and comfort.

Lack of funding is affecting women with mental health problems during pregnancy or after childbirth

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

by mary O’Connor
Funding earmarked for services for women in the west experiencing mental health problems during pregnancy or after childbirth is no longer available for the project.

Gardai probe city centre assault

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

Gardai are looking for witnesses to an assault which took place in the city centre earlier this week, which led to a man being hospitalised.

On Monday morning at approximately 1am, a man was assaulted by another man outside McDonalds restaurant on Shop Street, Galway.

Boston Scientific and NUI Galway objections withdrawn on dramatic opening day of ring road hearing

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

On a day when it seemed the proposers of the new N6 Galway City Ring Road would merely go through the motions of outlining the project, there was drama when it emerged that both Boston Scientific and NUI Galway had withdrawn objections/submissions to the plan — in both cases to allow amendments to address their concerns.

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