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Mary Coughlan organises Big Gig in aide of Syria and Turkey earthquake victims
Mary Coughlan was listening to the radio when she heard Anne O'Rourke, founder of TIAFI, an organisation dedicated to helping vulnerable women and children across Turkey and Syria. "I heard Anne on the news a week after the earthquake. She is from Waterford, and she has been living and working in a refugee camp on the Turkish Syrian border for years. Following the earthquake, she had an influx of about 26,000 people looking for help, some of whom had lost every member of their family.
From Tina to turnover — LEO boss looks back on a decade of encouragement
From organising a string of Eurovision Song Contests to booking the likes of Tina Turner, there isn’t much that Breda Fox is adverse to turning her hand to, but Tina’s mantra of Simply The Best would be a theme that would run throughout her career.
New vacant and derelict properties regulations will be a ‘game changer’
Extending first-time buyer initiatives to vacant and derelict homes will be a significant help to young people looking to buy and renovate their own home, constituent Fine Gael Senator, Micheál Carrigy, has said.
Vacant and derelict properties regulations will be a game changer in tackling the housing crisis - Dillon
Extending first-time buyer initiatives to vacant and derelict homes will be a significant help to young people across County Mayq looking to buy and renovate their own home, Fine Gael TD, Alan Dillon has said.
Chamber seeks public’s ideas on the future of Galway
What should Galway look like bvy the year 2050? What kind of city do we want to be living in by then? These are key questions in the Galway Chamber’s Vision 2050 consultation process.
Relics of Blessed Karl in Galway next week
The relics of Blessed Karl, the Last Emperor of Austria, will come to Galway Cathedral on Thursday November 21. Holy Mass in honour of Blessed Karl of Austria will be celebrated in Galway Cathedral at 7:30pm. Blessed Karl is one of the very few official saints of the Church who was also a husband and father.
Putting ‘the Big Fellow’ onstage
THE TUMULTUOUS life and times of Michael Collins is recreated in Declan Gorman’s gripping new play, The Big Fellow, based on Frank O’Connor’s classic 1937 biography, and which comes to the Town Hall Theatre this month.
Castlebar comes to a standstill as Ben Garrett is laid to rest
Castlebar came to a standstill on Wednesday afternoon and the business community shut their doors as the funeral of Private Ben Garrett, Kilnock, Breaffy, Castlebar, passed through the streets of the town in a military cortege before his burial in the New Cemetery in Castlebar. Private Garrett's body was found last Sunday in Galway following an 18 day search that saw hundreds of people scour the city and its surrounds on a daily basis looking for him after he was reported missing.
