We need a long term rental sector, says Threshold

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

For a growing number of people, the possibility of owning their own home is becoming less and less likely. A shortage of supply and significant growth in house prices means that for more and more people renting is the only viable housing option, according to Diarmaid O’Sullivan, Regional Services Manager, Threshold.

Friday deadline for consultation submissions on Tuam Mother and Baby Home

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Members of the public have until 4pm tomorrow (Friday) to make submissions as part of the independent consultation process on the five possible options identified by the Expert Technical Group for responding to the discovery of infant remains at the site of the former Mother and Baby Home, Tuam.

We continue to remember

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

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Patrick Derrane 5 months

A feast of family fun at the Galway Food Festival

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

The Galway Food Festival, which takes place over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend from March 29 to April 2, will feature an exciting selection of children’s events as part of this year’s line-up.

Would you like to be on the hospital Patient Council?

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Galway University Hospitals (GUH) is currently looking for volunteers to be part of the Patient Council for the Hospital.

Music, matches, and mirth at Claregalway St Patrick’s Day parade

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Claregalway St Patricks Day Festival will again take place in Hughes’courtyard ,Claregalway, from 12.00pm to 3.00pm pm on Saturday.

Eleven children dying in Syria every day, says Tuam native GOAL chief

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

General Manager GOAL
It is now seven years since a civil war in Syria started to tear that country apart.

Some two hundred Galway jobs created by Local Enterprise Office in 2017

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Enterprise Ireland has released the results of its 2017 Annual Employment Survey. Nationally, results show that there are now 37,485 people, employed by 7,182 small businesses and start-ups, which have received support from their Local Enterprise Offices. LEO Galway worked with 254 clients in 2017 and created a total of 192 gross and 95 net new jobs.

A further 59 business programmes were organised by LEO Galway, with a total of 1,312 participants taking part across the city and county. 26 business projects received direct financial assistance, such as business priming and expansion grants, reaching a combined value of €508,371.

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Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Funding for Coláiste an Chreagáin
Deputy Seán Canney has received confirmation that Coláiste an Chreagáin, Mountbellew, has been allocated funding by the Department of Education for a new science lab and prep area.

‘All nominees are winners,’ says Mayor in call for Mayor’s Awards nominations

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

“All the volunteers who are nominated for a Mayor’s Award are already winners in their own right,” said Mayor of Galway Cllr Pearce Flannery this week as he launched the 15th annual Mayor’s Awards. The Mayor is calling on people to nominate volunteers for their work in communities in the city.

Ireland West Airport appoints Arthur French as chairman

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Ireland West Airport has appointed businessman Arthur French as the new chairman of the airport. The appointment comes as long serving chairman Joe Kennedy announced he is to step down from his current role as chairman to become Honorary President of the airport.

‘All nominees are winners,’ says Mayor in call for Mayor’s Awards nominations

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

“All the volunteers who are nominated for a Mayor’s Award are already winners in their own right,” said Mayor of Galway Cllr Pearce Flannery this week as he launched the 15th annual Mayor’s Awards. The Mayor is calling on people to nominate volunteers for their work in communities in the city.

The Mayor’s Awards acknowledge outstanding people and organisations throughout the city who, through their commitment to participating in unpaid community and voluntary activities, have had a significant impact on the quality of life of their communities in Galway city.

European Region of Gastronomy programme to launch tomorrow with free family event

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

A free family event will be held in Galway tomorrow (Friday) to officially launch the flagship programme for Galway, West of Ireland European Region of Gastronomy (ERoG) 2018. The event will take place at the Spanish Arch from 5pm.

Galwayman jailed for eight years for rape and sexual assault of daughter

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

A Galway man who committed “despicable crimes” by subjecting his daughter to years of physical and sexual abuse has been jailed for eight years.

The man (55), who cannot be named to protect the victim’s anonymity, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to two counts of rape of his daughter on dates between 2000 to 2002, and to sexually assaulting his daughter from 1995 to 2002 when the girl was aged between 11 and 18 years old.

Number of people on Live Register in Galway down 12 per cent, says Cannon

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

The number of people signing on the Live Register in Galway has dropped by 12 per cent in the last year, Minister Ciaran Cannon has said. Unemployment has fallen steadily from a peak of 16 per cent in 2012 to 6 per cent in February 2018. Ireland is a stable, competitive, secure economy that is open for business.

Run to remember Aoibhe at the 2018 Renville Challenge

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Meningitis is sadly back in the news this week with the death of a little girl in Navan. You can do your bit to help raise awareness of the symptoms next month by taking part in a special running of the Remembering Aoibhe Renville Challenge which this year marks a decade since the loss of little Aoibhe Carroll.

New Oughterard sewage treatment plant will ensure capacity for growth

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

Irish Water working in partnership with the Galway County Council celebrated the official opening of the Oughterard Wastewater Treatment Plant on Tuesday with Minister of State for Natural Resources, Community Affairs, and Digital Development Seán Kyne, and Galway County Council cathaoirleach Eileen Mannion.

Major collaboration between CÚRAM and Boston Scientific announced by Taoiseach in Washington

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

A major research project between CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at National University Ireland (NUI) Galway, and Boston Scientific, that will enhance medical devices that allow surgeons to support minimally invasive procedures when carrying out life-saving repairs for aneurysms and aortic valve repair, was announced by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Washington last evening.

Speaking at a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) event in Washington DC to celebrate and build scientific collaboration between Ireland and the United States as part of the St Patrick’s Day Festival, Mr Varadkar said that these new research projects are further evidence of the high calibre of our research talent and the continued growth of the medical devices sector in Ireland.

Science needs more rock stars like Hawking

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

They say that those who live in the shadow of death are those who live most. Those who have opportunity taken from them are those who see the greater wonder in the things that others just take for granted. And that is so true. It is only when you are faced with losing something that you start to miss it the most. At times like that, it hard to focus on the positive, to reach out and see a light when there is but a dim torch in the distance.

In the last week, I have spoken to a friend who is seriously ill, and we spoke about the journey that lies ahead for him. We tried to get beyond the terror and the regret, the practicalities, and the outcome. A generally positive chap, now he is aiming to look past the illness, to embrace it like an odd companion, like a stranger who sits beside you on an interminable bus journey.

‘I’d like to open the barracks more to the local community’

Thu, Mar 15, 2018

In January of this year, Lieutenant Colonel Caimin Keogh assumed command of An Chéad Cath battalion in Renmore’s Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa Barracks. As a Galway-man Lt Colonel Keogh is immensely proud to lead his home-town battalion, as he told me when I sat down with him in his office on Monday afternoon.

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