Hospital makes big inroads into MRI waiting list
Galway’s public hospital group, Saolta, is making serious headway in clearing the backlog of patients awaiting life-saving MRI scans. The numbers waiting for scans at Merlin Park and University...
View ArticleTalk on Tuam babies branded ‘shameful’ revisionism
Galway Junior Minister Cíarán Cannon has branded an upcoming US talk on the Tuam babies scandal as a ‘shameful’ rewriting of history. One of the country’s best known journalists, John Waters, is to...
View ArticleControversial mosque plans still on the cards
Plans to retain a hugely controversial unauthorised mosque on the western side of the city have been kept alive, after the applicants responded to City Council questions just inside a six-month...
View ArticleSurvivors want consultations on future of Lenaboy Castle
A meeting about the future of Lenaboy Castle will take place later today. Chief Executive of the City Council, Brendan McGrath, will meet with Galway West Independent TD, Catherine Connolly to discuss...
View ArticleCall for €3m in Parkmore rates to be used to solve traffic crisis
Galway Chamber has called for the annual commercial rates income of €3 million from businesses in Parkmore to be ringfenced to fund a solution to the chronic traffic congestion in the area. In a...
View ArticleBusinesses demand blitz on street drinking and intimidating beggars
Business owners in Galway have called for a crackdown on illegal drinking and intimidating begging in the city in the run up to Christmas – with many fearing an adverse effect on business and...
View ArticleArtist convinces judge she did not intend to drink drive
A Canadian artist convinced a judge that she was sleeping the night in her car with a beau she met at the Clifden Arts Festival, rather than about to drive home when caught with the engine running. A...
View Article‘Threat to kill’ trial moved from Galway
The trial of a hotel director, charged with threatening to kill his neighbour, which was due to be heard in Galway later this month, has been moved to Castlebar in Co Mayo for logistical reasons. David...
View ArticleGardaí question teens over church vandalism
Gardaí in Clifden are following a number of lines of inquiry into the extensive damage that was caused to the Holy Trinity Church on the Errislannan peninsula in West Connemara. It’s understood that...
View ArticleSecurity van destroyed by blaze
Emergency services were called out to Ballybrit last evening after a security van went up in flames. The incident happened at around 6pm near G4S Security in the Ballybrit Industrial Estate. Units of...
View ArticleDelegation to meet Council on road safety concerns
A deputation will travel to County Hall next week to deliver a presentation on serious safety issues at Bawnmore Cross in Claregalway. It follows pleas from concerned local residents for the County...
View ArticleGalway Rally cancelled due to funding concerns
The 2018 Galway International Rally – due to take place in February – has been cancelled due to financial difficulties. The event has been promoted since 1971, and is one of the longest running...
View ArticleNew motorway stretch being used as ‘playground’ by boy racers
The new motorway between Tuam and Gort, which opened to traffic around six weeks ago, has already become a ‘playground’ for boy racers. On sections of the motorway from Tuam towards Athenry there is...
View ArticleCall for survey on rail use as greenway row flares up again
A call has been made for a survey to be conducted across the West of Ireland to determine if there is a demand for the Western Rail Corridor to be reopened for the purposes of carrying freight. The...
View ArticleGort student’s story wins her European Young Chef Award
A Gort student has been named the winner of the European Young Chef Award 2017 by wowing a panel of international judges with a dish of salted mackerel and sheep’s yoghurt. Aisling Rock is in the...
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Galway-trained milliner takes Asia shows by storm
A former GMIT textiles student has been hailed internationally for her millinery creativity with no less than two fashion shows in Asia in the space of a year. The protégé of Ahascragh milliner to the...
View ArticleNotre Dame defends talk on Tuam ‘holocaust hoax’
The University of Notre Dame in the US has defended its decision to host a talk by Irish journalist John Waters on the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. The writer faced a backlash this week after it emerged...
View ArticleBrothers jailed for crime spree across the city
A city man who went on a spree of car thefts and burglaries over, has been jailed for 22 months by Galway District Court. In imposing the sentence, Judge Mary Fahy said it would have been lengthier,...
View ArticleIllegal parking is “common practice” at UHG
Illegal parking is “common practice” at University Hospital Galway (UHG), the hospital group Saolta has admitted. And the Galway City Tribune has learned the problem could deteriorate once the proposed...
View ArticleCity councillors to vote on streaming of meetings
The elected members of Galway City Council will decide in the coming weeks whether to allow for the installation of cameras in their Chamber for live streaming of meetings. The supply and installation...
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