Additional radiographers for Merlin Park scanning facility
It’s been confirmed that the bone scanning facility at Merlin Park Hospital will remain open, despite recent fears over the future of the service. The matter has been raised in the Dáil by Galway...
View ArticleTraffic delays on N17 following three-car crash
There are traffic delays on the N17 near Cloonacauneen this afternoon following a collision. The three-car crash happened close to McHugh’s pub at around 1p.m. No-one was seriously injured but an...
View ArticleGalway priest steps aside during safeguarding probe
Galway Diocese has confirmed that a safeguarding issue is being investigated. Bishop Martin Drennan has granted leave of absence of parochial duties to a priest while the investigation is ongoing. In a...
View ArticleCareer criminal caught red-handed with sawn-off gun
A 25-year-old Tuam man has been sentenced to five years in prison after being caught red-handed with a sawn-off shotgun in suspicious circumstances. Edward Conroy, a father of three from 122 Parkmore...
View ArticleGarda cars in East Galway cut by 30%
There has been a 30% reduction in the number of Garda cars policing East Galway which is now leading to concerns that rural communities are at their most vulnerable. Savage cutbacks have resulted in...
View ArticleSharon Shannon’s ‘Garden of Vegan’
Fancy a salad with balls? Or maybe a burger with attitude? Well then, get along to The Garden of Vegan, the latest venture from musician and animal lover Sharon Shannon. Determined to “remove the...
View Article76-year-old defies the years with swim, cycle, walk and horse ride
A Ballinasloe resident has celebrated her 76th birthday with a swim, cycle, walk and horse ride over 7.6 miles – all completed in well under the 7.6 hour-target. Rachel Woollett underwent the challenge...
View ArticleWoman still in custody following €94,000 drug seizure
A woman remains in Garda custody this morning following a drug seizure in Knocknacarra yesterday. As part of a joint operation between Revenues Customs Service, the Garda Drugs & Organised Crime...
View ArticleMany Galway road fatalities linked to drink driving
The West’s Garda Regional Traffic Superintendent has issued a stark warning against drink driving ahead of the bank holiday weekend. It comes as new figures reveal that 10% of all road fatalities from...
View ArticleAran Islands air service in limbo again
The air service for the Aran Islands is in limbo again as the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has failed to reach an agreement with the owners of Na Minna airport in Inverin. A meeting...
View ArticleDrop in number of births at Galway’s maternity units
The number of births at the maternity units at UHG and Portiuncula Hospital dropped slightly last year. New figures reveal that 1,880 babies were born at Portiuncula last year – a decrease of almost 4%...
View ArticleStudent proves importance of grabbing that second chance
Sometimes people just need a second chance. Like Arron Claffey-Conneely; originally from Ballybane in Galway city, he is one of those given another shot at education – and now he’s polishing off his...
View ArticleTuam to get new primary care health centre
Tuam is to get a new primary care centre, Health Minister Simon Harris has confirmed. The North Galway facility is one of 14 new primary care centres that have been approved, including five in the west...
View ArticleFall from a horse leads to more serious diagnosis
If it wasn’t for a fall from a horse, a Tuam man could have found himself with a much bigger problem than just a sore back. Because after the horse riding incident Sean Carter suffered not only...
View ArticleSurgery could change little Ella’s life
The three year old daughter of a South Galway woman – diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy a few months after birth – has one shot at living life without a wheelchair. But her family needs €150,000 to make...
View ArticleNUIG looks at heart gene in research into sudden death
Scientists in Galway are seeking families who are known to be at risk of sudden death due to a cardiac condition in order to continue ground breaking stem cell research into developing therapies to...
View ArticleCall for CCTV to be installed in city estates
A city councillor has called on the City Council to stop ‘fiddling about with red tape’ and press ahead immediately with the installation of CCTV cameras to combat crime in a number of estates on the...
View ArticleMan had part of ear bitten off in unprovoked attack
A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to three years in prison for biting off part of another man’s ear in an unprovoked assault in Eyre Square last year. James Ward, 50 Gaelcarrig Park, Newcastle,...
View ArticleHospital group accused of over reacting to media leak
Senior management of the Saolta Hospital Group has been accused of being heavy-handed with a whistleblower who revealed that no new patient beds would be opened with the creation of a new 75-bed ward....
View ArticleTuam doctor and racehorse breeder killed in crash
Tuam and surrounding areas are in shock today after it emerged that the man who died in a car crash in Co Tipperary last evening was named locally as Dr John Waldron from Bishop Street. The popular...
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