Will anyone be held accountable for Dunmore foster care lapse?

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Images of child abuse come to us through grey-tinted windows. In our mind’s eye, they happen in a black and white world, with a smell of cold and talc and warm breath in an Ireland where the rain is incessant, washing down the gutters and the windows, gathering up shreds of hope, carrying them along to a drain where they disappear. And through the glass, just before the net curtains swing back to obscure the view in this miserable world, there is just enough time left for those without voice to witness that washing away.

€10 million investment to repair and replace Galway's 'crumbling' water mains

Tue, Apr 24, 2018

Nineteen kilometres of damaged water mains across Galway city are to undergo repairs and replacement following the announcement of a €10 million investment by Irish Water and the Galway City Council.

Twelve years on and Ros a’ Mhíl road is still 'in limbo'

Mon, Apr 23, 2018

Twelve years after upgrade works on the R336 Galway to Ros a’ Mhíl road were announced, and more than eight years since six indicative corridors were selected, a leading Galway TD is asking why "we are still waiting for a preferred route to be chosen".

Galway to commemorate ANZAC Day

Mon, Apr 23, 2018

ANZAC WAS the name given to a combined force of First Australian Imperial Force and New Zealand Army troops who landed on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula at around dawn on Sunday April 25 1915, barely nine months after the outbreak of World War I.

Delays to city ring road are ‘completely unacceptable’ — Ó Cuív

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Delays, which will result in the planning application for the €100 million N6 Galway city ring road project not being submitted until May at the earliest - months later than had been indicated - have been branded as “completely unacceptable”.

Galway's new secondary school should be an Educate Together school

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

At long last, the Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, has finally recognised what has long been a glaring and obvious reality - that Galway city and its hinterland is in need of a new secondary school.

'Literature did count for something and the authorities could be frightened of it'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Declan Kiberd has long been one of our most lively and illuminating literary critics and next week, at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, he will discuss his latest book, After Ireland.

How the Eighth Amendment affects maternity services

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

The Eighth Amendment, inserted into the Constitution in 1983, equates the life of the mother with the life of the unborn child. Abortion is not available in Ireland even in cases of fatal foetal anomaly or when a woman becomes pregnant as a result of rape.

'We need a more compassionate response. We need to repeal the Eighth'

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Hildegarde Naughton is one of many Irish politicians who has been "on a journey" over the issue of abortion and the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, and at the core of what has persuaded her to campaign for a Yes vote on May 25 is the idea of compassion.

Too busy and burnt out? Try the Slow At Work workshop

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Galwegians who are feeling stressed, burnt out, or under pressure, in their woking lives, should check out an afternoon workshop in Galway city, designed to help people get some respite from the 'cult of busyness'.

University to mark legacy of graduate who helped rebuild San Francisco

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

A public lecture and the launch of a new mini documentary on NUI Galway graduate and former city engineer of San Francisco, Michael Maurice O’Shaughnessy will form part of two days of activities marking his legacy.

NUI Galway and the University of California Berkeley both hold archives relating to O’Shaughnessy and a public lecture by Theresa Salazar, University of California Berkeley, will highlight the Limerick native’s legacy in San Francisco, as part of the events on April 24 and April 25.

Boston Mayor and surprise guests to attend Mayor Flannery’s charity ball

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Several Galway charities are set to benefit from Mayor Pearce Flannery’ Charity Mayors Ball on May 11 next in the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill.

The morality of the end of the world

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

In his instruction to his new translation of the New Testament, the Greek Orthodox theologian, David Bentley Hart, says in the course of translating, he was struck forcefully with “a new sense of the utter strangeness of the Christian vision of life in its first dawning, by which I mean its strangeness in respect to the Christianity of later centuries. When one truly ventures into the world of the first Christians, one enters a company of radicals”. As critic, novelist and playwright Terry Eagleton argues in his challenging new book, Radical Sacrifice, quoting the Marxist philosopher, Ernst Bloch, from his great book, The Principle of Hope, “The morality of Jesus is the morality of the end of the world.”

Eagleton expands on this. “Those who live as though the future has already arrived – as did the first Christian generation – pose a threat to the status quo. They are Prophets, and as such figures marked out as objects of political violence; yet they also live like the lilies of the field, and take no heed for tomorrow. In their touch of surrealist madness and casual way with material necessities, they proclaim the imminence of the reign of justice. If one is heedless of a return for one’s gift, it is among other things, because an end time is approaching which will make all such exchange superfluous. Sine history is drawing to close, there is no reason not to give without reserve. Acting and giving must be viewed sus specie aeternitatis, deranging the meticulous balance sheets of the present.”

Get your paws on the prom for 2018 MADRA Dogathon, says Sharon Shannon

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Musician Sharon Shannon is calling on dog lovers young and old to put their paws on the Salthill prom in aid of this year’s MADRA Dogathon.

Don’t copy the British – vote no to abortion on demand, say Galway For Life

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

At the heart of the current debate about removing the right to life of the unborn child from the Constitution is a question about what kind of society we want to be. We do not have to look far in order to see the country where they have long ago removed the right to life for the unborn child. Our nearest neighbours in Britain have made that mistake, and we are being asked to copy them.

Special Olympics needs volunteers for tomorrow’s annual collection

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

The annual collection day for the Special Olympics in Galway takes place tomorrow, and organisers are calling for volunteers to help.

Some 1,200 volunteers from Connacht are needed to don volunteer bibs, shake buckets and get involved.

Galway Greens calls for decriminalisation of cannabis

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Cannabis is being used as a “medical treatment” in some circumstances, while others smoke it for recreational purposes the same way some people “like a glass of wine in the evening”, meaning it is time the drug was decriminalised.

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Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Free events at Cúirt
Leading Irish and international authors will give free public readings of their works in the Westside, Ballybane, and Gort libraries as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

56-year-old Robert Orr knows all about the unpredictability of life. Everything changed for the Glasgow native who has lived in Connemara for the past 14 years when he went blind in 2012 as a result of glaucoma.

Doughiska girls welcome new ambassadors for Irish Girl Guides

Thu, Apr 19, 2018

Members of Irish Girl Guides from Doughiska travelled to Dublin to welcome award-winning entrepreneurs Kate and Annie Madden as the organisation’s new ambassadors.

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