New student housing plan for Bohermore
Plans to convert a vacant office block off Sean Mulvoy Road to student and tourist accommodation for up to 90 people have been lodged with Galway City Council. ‘Swuite Bohermore’ will be run by an...
View ArticleEU issues advice on future of Aran Island air service
The European Commission is advising that cost should not be the only consideration in the operation of any future air service to the Aran Islands. It follows a meeting organised in Brussels by MEP...
View Article700 turned away from domestic violence refuge
Nearly 700 women and children fleeing domestic violence were turned away from a refuge in Galway City last year. The “very worrying” figure was underlined by the charity Cope ahead of International...
View ArticleClimate expert warns Salthill Promenade ‘on last legs’
Salthill is at risk of having its iconic Promenade fall into wrack and ruin if immediate repairs are not carried out. That’s according to Dr Eugene Farrell, a Geography lecturer in NUIG. At a talk...
View ArticleGalway Port project will be ‘good to go’ by end of year
The planning green light for the Galway Port expansion should ‘be good to go’ by the end of this year, clearing one of the main hurdles in terms of freeing up EU funding for the project, it was claimed...
View Article€4m extension to attract major international retailers
Construction work on a €4 million extension at the Kennedy Park entrance to the Eyre Square Shopping Centre – which will provide seven new retail units – is set to begin this month. The project is a...
View ArticlePrestigious medical conference for city
More than 300 delegates from across the world will flock to Galway at the beginning of June after the city secured a prestigious medical conference – the first time it has ever been held outside of the...
View ArticleCouncils combine to tackle Parkmore traffic
Galway County Council this week agreed to join forces with Galway City Council to carry out improvement works at Parkmore Junction on the Tuam Road – currently a source of daily frustration for...
View ArticleGreenway lobby gets right back to business
The end of the General Election battle has triggered a renewed campaign to provide a walking and cycling greenway on the rail corridor from Athenry to Tuam and further north towards Sligo. And their...
View Article‘Senior’ singers and dancers take to the stage
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune, they say – and the same goes for the fiddler too! Because a group of musicians and storytellers who have been entertaining in their own circles for up to 40...
View ArticleTeenage duo record charity EP for courageous kids
Two talented Galway teenage musicians aim to make someone’s dream come true – through the sales of their own debut EP. Because all of the proceeds of this new release from 15 year old Martha Tuohy and...
View ArticlePlanning process is bound up in red tape
The mounting costs of planning applications – and the lack of Local Authority funding to take over private roads and estates – have been described as impediments to people wishing to build their own...
View ArticleVoters express anger at exclusion from register
A number of councillors have received complaints from people who arrived at polling stations to be told they weren’t on the Register of Electors. Cllr Eileen Mannion was the first to flag the problem...
View ArticleOver €150,000 raised by Galway Bay Fm Radiothon
The second Galway Bay fm Radiothon has raised over €150,000 for Galway Hospice and Cancer Care West. The grand total was announced live on air last evening after three days of dedicated broadcasting....
View ArticleMagdalen women remembered at Bohermore cemetery
Around 50 people attended a flower laying ceremony at the Magdalen graves in Bohermore cemetery this afternoon. The event is part of the national ‘Flowers for Magdalens’ event which saw flowers laid on...
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Fitness fanatic duo plan exercise marathon for charity
Eight hours of continuous burpees may sound like a belching extravaganza best avoided. But for two fitness fanatics who have turned the art of perfecting the human physique into a business, burpees are...
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Kardashians and JLo among Galway artist’s fans
A digital artist in Galway has won the admiration of the Kardashian clan as well as the likes of JLo for her unique style of illustration shared over social media. Since discovering digital art a year...
View ArticleSupreme court justice due at city conference dies suddenly
Supreme Court Justice, Adrian Hardiman, who was due to give the opening address at a language conference in the city tonight, has passed away. Justice Hardiman was involved in a number of high profile...
View ArticleFisherman winched from boat in Galway Bay
A fisherman aboard a boat off the west coast has been taken to hospital in Galway. The 30-year old foreign national complained of abdominal difficulty around 10 o’ clock this morning. The doctor based...
View ArticleHeroin dealer ‘catapulted’ by gang into Galway
Another Lithuanian drug dealer who was “catapulted” into Galway to sell heroin for a criminal gang, has been given the maximum sentence of six months for obstructing Gardai by swallowing bags of heroin...
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