28 Galway roads to be improved with €942,000 Local Improvement Scheme funding

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Minister Seán Kyne confirmed this week that 28 roads across Galway will be improved through the 2018 Local Improvement Scheme.

Funding of €942,000 has been allocated to Galway by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the 28 roads to be improved have been selected by Galway County Council.

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Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Galway Muslim Community open day
Galway’s Muslim community will host its annual GICC Neighbourhood Week 2018 in the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, with this year’s theme being ‘To know each other’.

Gearrliosta Ghradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2018 announced

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

The 2018 finalists of Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh were officially announced this week by the Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr. Pearce Flannery at a press event in Téatar Uí Chearbhalláin, Áras na Gaeilge, NUI Galway. Fifteen Galway-based businesses and organisations from a variety of sectors were named on this year’s Gearrliosta, all who have made the Irish language an integral part of their story.

Good Food Ireland honours international guests at Galway event

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Ballymaloe’s Myrtle Allen, CNN’s Culinary Journeys, Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio, AFAR Media USA, and Tourism Australia and partner Restaurant Australia have been announced as distinguished touRRoir 2018 Hall of Fame inductees at an event in Galway.

Pint of Science Galway brings scientists out of the lab and into your local pub

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Tickets have gone on sale for the world’s largest festival of public science talks which will see seven scientists take to the stage in pubs across Galway on May 14 to 16.

Make sure you are registered to vote

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

The referendum on the Eighth Amendment is a “once in a lifetime opportunity to vote for a more compassionate and caring society”, according to Galway Together For Yes, which has launched a major ‘Register To Vote’ drive.

GMIT welcomes planning approval for extension to Galway campus iHUB

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

GMIT president Dr Fergal Barry has welcomed the decision by the Galway City Council to grant planning permission for a substantial extension to the institute’s Innovation Hub building at its Galway (Dublin Road) campus. Construction on the new c1,400sq m three-storey building is expected to commence in the autumn.

“GMIT colleagues in research and innovation, and the Buildings and Estates Department, have worked in close collaboration with Enterprise Ireland and GMIT’s appointed design team, led by Van Dijk architects, to produce an exciting and dynamic design on a very prominent site on the Galway campus, with south facing aspect over Galway Bay, on one of the busiest arterial routes in and out of the city,” Dr Barry said this week.

Get a kick out of supporting two great causes

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Will you get a kick out of supporting local charities Rosabel’s Rooms & ACT for Meningitis?

Carnmore NS open evening tonight

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Carnmore National School Oranmore is hosting an open evening for parents and children this evening Thursday April 26.

Gardai appeal for help after spate of burglaries

Thu, Apr 26, 2018

Gardai are appealing for information following a number of burglaries in the Ballinasloe area last week.

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'.

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