M6 motorway closed after truck overturns
The M6 motorway has been closed in both directions since lunchtime, after a truck overturned and shed its load across the carriageways. The accident happened between the Ballinasloe and Athlone exit...
View Article10 years’ jail for man who raped daughter
A Galway man who raped his daughter and threatened to kill her mother with a shotgun if she told anyone has been sentenced to just over ten years in prison. The 65-year-old man, who cannot be named to...
View ArticleSearch operation underway along River Corrib
A search operation got underway in Galway City this morning, after a person was seen entering the River Corrib. Emergency services were alerted at around 9.30am that a person entered the water at...
View ArticleMan who tried to aid stranger on ground had his jaw broken
A Good Samaritan had his jaw broken in two places when he stopped to help a stranger who had been knocked to the ground during a melee outside a city nightclub. Surgeons wired the victim’s mouth shut...
View ArticleRecruitment of specialists will reduce amputations
The recruitment of additional foot disorder specialists will hopefully stem an alarming increase in the number of Galway people with diabetes needing hospital treatment – including amputation – for...
View ArticleLucky escape as artic overturns on wrong side of M6
GARDAÍ and local representatives have expressed relief at the ‘miracle outcome’ of a frightening motorway crash this week in which a huge articulated truck went out of control and ended up overturned...
View ArticleDrunk driver faces sentence for causing death of pensioner
A drunk driver faces sentence in January for causing the death of a pensioner and seriously injuring a Garda near Ardrahan in South Galway last year. Adrian Nestor, Keamsella, Kilcolgan, pleaded guilty...
View ArticleObesity a growing problem in Galway schools
Childhood obesity is an epidemic in Galway’s classrooms, a Dáil committe has been told. Galway City primary school teacher Claire Heneghan, of Scoil Rois, Taylor’s Hill, revealed that larger uniform...
View ArticleCouncil to start work on wobbly pedestrian cobbles
Remedial works on the city’s worst affected pedestrianised street will take place before an extensive regeneration scheme begins in 2019. Chief Executive of Galway City Council, Brendan McGrath,...
View ArticleRats drive ambulance crews from ‘new’ base in Merlin Park
A rat infestation at a temporary ambulance base in Merlin Park has forced the HSE to move staff back to their original premises on the University Hospital Galway campus. Forty workers now have access...
View ArticleGarda chief rejects ‘point duty’ proposal for Parkmore
Gardaí will not be put on duty to ease traffic congestion at Parkmore, because of health and safety concerns, Galway City Council has been told. At a meeting of the local authority this week,...
View ArticleProposal for Council’s 11-acre Sandy Road landbank to be opened up
City councillors are set to discuss a motion next week calling for a masterplan to be drawn up for 11 acres which the local authority owns at Sandy Road. If approved, it will set in motion a chain of...
View ArticleWATCH: Fire Services work to rescue passengers stuck on Big Wheel
Around 20 people were rescued from the Big Wheel at the Christmas Market in Eyre Square, which became stuck earlier this evening. The northern side of Eyre Square was closed from around 6.30pm as...
View ArticleLanguage laws hinder bid to put Claregalway on the map
It’s a bit Irish, but language laws have stifled attempts to put Claregalway on the map! As Claregalway is in the Gaeltacht, its official title for the purposes of road signs is the Irish version,...
View ArticleIncrease in breaches of barring orders in Galway
A 55% jump in the number of barring orders breached were recorded in the first ten months of this year. Statistics presented by Galway’s most senior Garda, Chief Superintendent Tom Curley, to a County...
View Article‘Supermac’ praises CCTV in fight against bogus compo claims
An ever-growing ‘compo-culture’ in Ireland is threatening every sector of society from young drivers, business-owners and even local authorities. That’s according to Supermac’s Managing Director, Pat...
View Article€500,000 winning lottery ticket sold in Galway
A lottery ticket sold in Rahoon has produced a €500,000 winner. The Lotto Plus 1 prize-winner was sold at Henchy’s Daybreak in Rosán Glas on Friday and was a mixed play ticket (normal play and Quick...
View ArticleOrganised beggars operating a ‘little industry’, judge says
Eleven men and one woman – all with Dublin addresses – were brought before Galway District Court this week charged with obstructing the passage of pedestrians or vehicles while begging at various...
View ArticleArmed Gardaí deal with incident in city centre
Armed Gardaí have dealt with an incident at a house in Woodquay in the city centre. Gardaí refused to divulge the nature of the incident at St Brendan’s Avenue “for operational reasons”. The road had...
View ArticleCounty Council agrees on terms for free Christmas parking
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The County Council has agreed the terms for free parking in county towns over the Christmas period. Parking in county towns will be free each Saturday in December from 11am,...
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