New four-star hotel in Spiddal would create 100 jobs
Baile Éamoinn Teoranta has announced plans to seek planning permission to develop Óstán An Chuain, a new four-star hotel in An Spideál. The development will include an artisan food innovation hub with...
View ArticleNew motorway opens up rural parts of Galway to criminals
The opening of the new Gort to Tuam motorway has resulted in a huge increase in crime – with criminals now enjoying speedier access and getaways. And that has led to calls for Garda motorway patrols to...
View ArticleCalls for planning reform as cloud hangs over Apple
A Galway East TD says the threat of Apple pulling the plug on its proposed data centre in Athenry shows the clear need for immediate planning reform. Fears are being expressed for the future of the 850...
View ArticleCouncillors demand answers over future of Duggan Park
GAA officials in both Galway and Croke Park are to be contacted to determine the future of Duggan Park in Ballinasloe – a venue that used to host top club and county games. Members of Ballinasloe...
View ArticleCounty councillors warned they’ll “be on the dole”
Galway County Councillors will have to ‘join the dole queues’, if they do not pass the 2018 Budget later this month. The stark warning came from Ger Mullarkey, Director of Services for Finance at...
View ArticleOphthalmology waiting lists are an eye-opener
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has been urged to ‘open its eyes’ to the risks posed to children’s eyesight due to lengthy waiting lists. There are 188 children in South Galway waiting over a year...
View Article3,200 Galway drivers aged over 80 – nine of them learners!
There were more than 3,200 licenced drivers over the age of 80 on Galway’s roads last year, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show – including nine on learner permits. The CSO’s ‘Transport...
View ArticleWater restored to hundreds of customers in Galway
Irish Water says water supply has now been fully restored to all customers in Galway City, where hundreds of homes and businesses were affected. It follows disruption to many areas on the west side of...
View ArticleEPA report names 14 areas in Galway which pose water threat
Several areas in Galway have been singled out in a new ‘list of shame’, which highlights environmental threats to water. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified 14 areas in Galway...
View ArticleBoston Scientific planning expansion into new building
One of Galway’s biggest employers, med-tech giant Boston Scientific, is planning to expand into an adjacent premises which it has acquired. The company has sought planning permission for works at the...
View ArticleTeen jailed for spitting at Garda during arrest
A teenager has been given a four-month prison sentence for spitting at a Garda “like an animal”. John Hynes, with a former address in Ros Aitinn, Upper Clybaun Road, Knocknacarra, who has since moved...
View ArticleGalway’s Rent Pressure Zone is pushing families onto the street
One of the Government’s cures for the city’s housing crisis has proved worse than the disease. Galway City Council has warned that the Rent Pressure Zone introduced by the Government earlier this year...
View ArticlePharma giant takes legal action against Inverin-based rival
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A pharmaceutical giant is taking legal action against a rival based in Connemara claiming it has infringed its patents. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited is suing Mylan...
View ArticleNew wing opened at Western Alzheimers facility
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Western Alzheimers has officially opened a new wing in the charity’s residential centre in Athenry. €230,000 was fundraised by Boston Scientific employees to support the...
View ArticleIDA boss vows to keep pressure on Apple for Athenry site
The head of IDA Ireland has said the organisation intends to stay in close contact with Apple to ensure Athenry remains high on its agenda. Martin Shanahan’s comments came amid concerns that the...
View ArticleGardaí issue warning over cheques scam
Galway Gardaí have warned business owners across to be wary when accepting cheques. The warning comes amid the latest scam involving ‘bad’ cheques which were handed in to businesses in Tuam and other...
View ArticleMetLife launch ‘a vote of confidence’ in Galway
Tanaiste Frances Fitzgerald has said MetLifes’s new Global Technology Campus in the city is a major vote of confidence in Galway. The new office at the Hynes’ Building at St Augustine Street, which was...
View ArticleWarning on dangers of ‘online friends’ to kids
Educating parents on the use and dangers of social media apps is the key to protecting children, a Galway TD has been told by the head of the Garda National Protective Services Bureau. And the Garda...
View ArticleCommunity rallies to support tragic hurling fan
A Galway hurling supporter remains in a critical condition in a Dublin hospital, two months after he fell into a canal on the morning of the All-Ireland final. Jason McGann from Carra, Bullaun,...
View ArticleDriver of van in which young woman died is spared jail after grieving parents...
The driver of the van, from which a young Furbo woman fell to her death nearly a year ago, has been given 200 hours of community service for his role in the tragedy. The parents of 22-year-old Cliodhna...
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