50 First Dates Galway !! Did they live happily ever after?? …
Tue, Mar 13, 2018
Love conquers all!! Not even ‘Storm Emma’ or ‘The Beast from the East’ come between our hopeful singles. Last Wednesday & Thursday night our matched hopefuls descended upon The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen to meet their blind date!
Read more ...Stories, suffrage and strong women — NUI Galway event tonight
Fri, Mar 09, 2018
BY CAROLINE FORDE (POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, CENTRE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S STUDIES) AND ELAINE MEARS (DIRECTOR, STORIES OF UNA)
Read more ...The shape of water — thousands of homes in county still without a supply
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Homes on several public water schemes in the county were told to curtail their usage last night as water restrictions continue and some 3,000 households around the county remain without water almost one week after Storm Emma.
Read more ...More than 1200 patients left waiting twenty-four hours in UHG emergency department in 2017
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
More than 1,200 patients over the age of 75 were left waiting for more than 24 hours to be seen in the Emergency Department at Galway University Hospital in 2017.
Read more ...How the Eighth Amendment affects healthcare
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
We deserve compassionate healthcare in Ireland. The Eighth Amendment prevents this, which is why it is vital to remove it from the Constitution when we have the opportunity to vote in the May/June referendum.
Read more ...Housing crisis is not an accident - it was designed that way
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Travel around the 26 counties and in the cities, towns, and even villages, and you will come across mature, pristine, housing estates which resemble Shantalla and Old Mervue. These houses were built back in the days when our Republic was poor.
Read more ...'You wouldn’t believe the stuff people admit to, absolutely disgusting!'
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
The inimitable Russell Brand breezes into Galway next week with his superlative stand-up show, RE:BIRTH, at Leisureland on Wednesday March 14 at 8pm, where he will deals with such all-encompassing questions as 'What is real?' 'Who are we?' and 'Where did this baby come from?'
Read more ...People who have children through surrogacy should be eligible for maternity leave, says HSE forum member
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
A member of the HSE West’s regional health forum says it is wrong that HSE employees who have a child through surrogacy are not eligible for statutory maternity leave.
City councillor and forum member Cllr Padraig Conneely raised the issue at a meeting of the forum at Merlin Park Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
Read more ...What exactly does choice mean in the context of the abortion debate?
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Spokesperson for LoveBoth
It’s a word that gets bandied about so much but maybe it’s time to think about what ‘choice’ means in the context of the abortion debate. Some of my friends consider themselves ‘pro-choice’. Some don’t understand why I support keeping the Eighth Amendment in the Constitution. Doesn’t it restrict women’s choices?, they say? Doesn’t it tell women what they can and can’t do? Isn’t life more complex than the Eighth Amendment would have us believe?
Overseas nurses being sought to work in local public hospitals
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Management at UHG and Merlin Park hospitals plan to spearhead an international recruitment drive for nurses.
Eighty nurses were hired so far this year in GUH (UHG and Merlin Park Hospitals). Some 77 of these were temporary hires while three were permanent.
Read more ...Weight loss plan from System 10
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
There are three keys to a genuine weight loss plan – diet, exercise and metabolism correction. All three keys interconnect – one will not work without the other. Your metabolism is the most powerful of all the three keys – it is the ‘switch’ that controls everything else. In most people this switch is off.
Read more ...Galway County Council to launch Health and Wellbeing Day at Claregalway Castle
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Galway County Council will officially launch the Healthy County Galway Programme at Claregalway Castle on Thursday next March 15. The aim of Healthy County Galway is to drive local action and promote local leadership for health and ensure that County Galway is a healthy, equitable, resilient and vibrant place for all who live, work and visit. This is part of a series of projects currently being undertaken countywide which are being funded by the Healthy Ireland Initiative.
Read more ...Bands on the run — Musicians are being penalised by high motor insurance, says Rabbitte
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Band members and singers are being penalised by exorbitant motor insurance fees, Fianna Fail TD Anne Rabbitte said in the Dail when she hit out at the government for failing to curb rising motor insurance costs for drivers and businesses.
She raised the issue in the Dáil to focus particularly on the situation facing people in the entertainment industry, who are finding it increasingly difficult to get affordable cover.
Read more ...Claregalway locals to plant 5,000 trees this weekend at Knockdoemore Park
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Every week, Knockdoemore Park near Claregalway is home to almost 2,000 people running, walking, stretching, jumping. The players of Claregalway GAA train and play on the three pitches; the young athletes of Clare River Harriers jump and run in one corner; walkers and joggers use the floodlit and gravelled 1km circuit to build up fitness; the scouts practise their routines and learn their skills in another corner.
Read more ...Why doesn’t she just leave? — time to stop blaming the woman
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
When we hear of violent and abusive relationships, we often ask the question – “why doesn’t she just leave him?” or “who would put up with that?”
Read more ...Poor Clares’ fun in the snow goes viral
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
The exitement generated by the snow last week was not just confined to the delighted children who had days off school, but it also extended to the order of the Poor Clares on Nuns Island.
Read more ...City council approves funding for arts groups
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Galway City Council has approved funding for 75 arts groups throughout the city.
Read more ...‘Threat of closure’ over Time4Us must be ‘lifted immediately’ says Connolly
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
The “threat of closure” hanging over Time4Us must be “lifted immediately” to allow “some measure of security to the families using the service”, according to Independent Galway West TD Catherine Connolly.
Time4Us, on Shantalla Road, has, for the past 10 years, provided a neutral, child-friendly meeting-place where children can meet with their non-resident parent. The service currently caters for 40 families. However in January it was announced that the service would close. Since then a campaign has been under way to prevent this happening.
Read more ...RTE and Galway 2020 sign partnership for year of celebration
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
The Director-General of RTÉ, Dee Forbes, and the Chief Executive of Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, Hannah Kiely, today signed an agreement that will see the national public service media organisation act as the lead media partner for Galway 2020, in a special association that will promote Galway’s historic year as the European Capital of Culture.
Read more ...The humanity of the brave
Thu, Mar 08, 2018
Every day, it passes over where I work and where I live.
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