Power restored to hundreds of homes in Mountbellew area
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Power has been restored to over 470 homes and businesses in the Mountbellew area which were without power for a time this morning. The outage followed a fault in Ballygar. ESB...
View ArticleEmigration-hit Galway GAA moves club social to Boston
A Connemara GAA club ravaged by emigration is taking a novel approach to marking a significant milestone – by partying with its Disapora in Boston! Carna/Caiseal GAA will celebrate its 30th birthday...
View ArticleRough sleepers flock into Galway
An influx of “economic migrants” from Eastern Europe over the last three months is behind the chronic rise in homelessness on the streets of Galway – with almost every available doorway and park space...
View ArticlePhilanthropist offers €7m towards new health centre
A millionaire philanthropist has offered to provide a whopping €7 million for the development of a 50 bed residential care unit in Tuam, to be constructed on the site of the town’s old Grove Hospital....
View ArticleClampers leave only sour note on day of hurling triumph
Galway hurling supporters who parked their cars in Maynooth and took the train to Croke Park returned to the Kildare town to find their cars clamped. At least a dozen motorists travelling to the...
View ArticleGo ahead for expansion of five star Glenlo Abbey Hotel
Galway Bay fm newsroom – County planners have given the go-ahead for a major extension to the Glenlo Abbey Hotel on the outskirts of the city, which will include new bedrooms and a spa. Developer John...
View Article€20m expansion plans for Knocknacarra retail park
The new owners of the Gateway Retail Park in Knocknacarra have drawn up fresh plans for the €20 million Phase 2 of the development – which will include new retail units, gym, offices, restaurant and...
View ArticleHotels selling out ahead of Ed Sheeran’s Galway gigs
Ed Sheeran’s two summer concerts in Pearse Stadium next May will give a fillip to the local tourism sector – two of the hotels closest to the venue were booked-up soon after tour dates were announced....
View ArticleGardaí arrest teens over attack on Ballybrit mosque
Two juvenile boys have been questioned and cautioned by Gardai in relation to one of two criminal damage incidents at the Galway Maryam Mosque last month on the Old Monivea Road. The two – both aged...
View ArticleProposed ban on late night takeaways to curb assaults
A local councillor has said it is time to start examining all available options to reduce the numbers of assaults in the city – including an 11.30pm closing time for takeaways. In the latest crime...
View ArticleEd Sheeran fans in Galway begin queuing for tickets 36 hours in advance
Galway Bay fm newsroom – ‘Ed mania’ has gripped Galway city and county today ahead of the sale of tickets for Ed Sheeran’s Pearse Stadium gigs tomorrow morning (Saturday). The singer-songwriter will...
View ArticleCouncil agrees to put religious shrines in spotlight
County Councillors have ‘seen the light’ and voted to allow their annual notice of motion money be used to fund streetlamps at remote holy grottos. Director of Services, Michael Timmons, brought a...
View Article4,700 on trolleys in Galway’s public hospitals in first six months
Nearly 4,700 patients were left waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Galway and Portiuncula in Ballinasloe in the first six months of this year. Figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives...
View ArticleAlcohol sponsorship ban would hit Galway Races and Arts Festival
The city’s two flagship festivals, that attract tens of thousands of visitors to Galway annually, have warned they face massive funding shortfalls if new alcohol sponsorship laws are implemented. The...
View ArticleGalway unemployment down 13% since last year
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The unemployment rate in Galway has dropped by over 13 percent since last year. The latest figures from the CSO reveal that despite an increase in jobless figures last month,...
View ArticleExpert group outlines options for Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The first report on the remains buried at the former site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has put forward five options for the future of the site. It’s also noted the...
View ArticleFlood prevention works in Labane completed
Preliminary flood relief works at Labane in South Galway have been completed. The stretch on the N18 was closed for a period of three months during flooding in the winter of 2015/16 leading to...
View ArticleDocumentary examines influence of hurling on ice hockey
Hurling’s influence on Canada’s national game, ice hockey, is documented in a new film by a Connemara production company. Poc na nGael (Puck of the Irish), directed and produced by Éamonn Ó Cualáin and...
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Star of stage, screen and dance floor on how illness took its toll
He was one of Galway’s best-known faces, but more than that, Ray McBride – actor, dancer, raconteur – seemed to make every challenge look simple, until illness took a terrible toll. Here he reflects on...
View ArticleExtension plan approved for Corralea Court Hotel in Tuam
A hotel in the centre of Tuam has been granted planning permission for a major extension after the owners acquired an adjoining business premises for the expansion plan. County planners have given the...
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