05 Oct 2011

Healy Eames Welcomes €225K Funding for Local Projects


Maree – €120,458.68
Lackagh, Turloughmore – €104,970.75

Galway West Senator, Fidelma Healy Eames has welcomed the news that funding €225 429.43 has been granted by Galway Rural Development Company (GRDC) to a number of local projects.

“I am pleased to hear that €225 429.43 has been made available to local projects by the GRDC. This funding will go a long way to improving the lives & services available, especially for young people in rural areas.” (more…)

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05 Oct 2011

GAA Fashion Extravaganza


Claregalway GAA Club are holding their second Fashion Extravaganza on Thursday, October 20th 2011 at 8.00pm in the Clayton Hotel, Briarhill.  This event is to support the ongoing development of the Claregalway GAA Club.  Two training pitches are now in use but there is still a long way to go and the club has embarked on a five year development plan to raise the funds to enable completion of this project.  Club membership is constantly increasing so these facilities are greatly needed.

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04 Oct 2011

Cases Wine Warehouse and Cava Restaurant


The latest in our series of wine events happens on Thursday week, 13th October at Cava Restaurant on Dominick Street in Galway

Cava is now widely acknowledged as Ireland’s finest Tapas restaurant and owner-chef JP McMahon’s 5-course tasting menu for the night will focus on the hottest new trends in Spanish cuisine.
These will be wonderfully complemented by a tutored tasting of exciting wines from the Rioja, Cariňena and Bierzo regions of Spain. The wines will be introduced by David Geary of Axial Wines, another of our modern-day wine geese.
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03 Oct 2011

Life After the Floods


AROUND 20 families who were forced out by severe flooding two years ago are expected to get up to €200,000 each to buy new homes.

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26 Sep 2011

Self Help Africa – Ronan Scully


I am writing now to you to let you know that I recently started working for the Irish charity Self Help Africa (Visit www.selfhelpafrica.org to find out more).

For over 25 years Self Help Africa has been working to alleviate poverty and hunger amongst some of the poorest people on earth. It is challenging work, but it is rewarding to know that much progress has been made in Africa in the past decade.
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25 Sep 2011

Galway County Council Free Household WEEE Wagon Day


Galway County Council and WEEE Ireland will be holding a free WEEE Wagon day for Household Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment. Anything from the home with a plug or a battery will be accepted at the event.

The Claregalway WEEE Wagon Day takes place on 29th September between 4pm and 7pm. See Galway County Council WEEE Wagon Day for further details.

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24 Sep 2011

Looking for relatives


I was moved by Stephen Long’s post asking for help on locating his kin.  I have never considered  using this newsletter as a channel for finding relatives — the  moment of eureka on doing so must have passed me by — albeit I would like to do the same.  Please consider posting this in your newsletter as well.  My gratitude would be beyond words if you post this. (more…)

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24 Sep 2011

Political Clinics – Fidelma Healy Eames


A Chara,

I am holding a series of clinics on next Friday 30th September.

The timetable is as follows;

11.00 a.m. – Menlo Park Hotel, Galway City

2:00 p.m. - Coach House Hotel, Oranmore

3:00 p.m. – Paddy Burke’s Clarinbridge

4:30 p.m. – Arches Hotel, Claregalway  (more…)

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24 Sep 2011

Looking for Relatives


My great grandfather was Michael Long born in Galway, Ireland.  I am not exactly sure where or when but potentially in the 1865-1870 range.  His wife’s name was Catherine Walsh, also from Galway but it is not clear if they were married before he emigrated to Boston, MA.  He had 2 sisters, Mary and Katherine (Kate or Katie) and 3 brothers, John, Patrick and Thomas. (more…)

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21 Sep 2011

Creating Online Business Course Open to Jobseekers


With the national focus on new work opportunities, South West Gnó Skillnet in conjunction with a Galway based firm are running an innovative training programme for jobseekers and the self-employed, based on building a successful business using the internet. Supported by Southwest Gno Skillnet, the training programme will take place in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Thursday 29 September from 7 – 10 pm. (more…)

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19 Sep 2011

Abbey Wall


By Declan Tierney, Connacht Tribune

The height of a wall being constructed in Claregalway by the Office of Public Works is causing some consternation locally – it is claimed that it is blocking the view of the old Franciscan Abbey.

And it has been learned that a letter has been set to the OPW from a local TD asking if the wall can be lowered as its height was causing a lot of disquiet locally. (more…)

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16 Sep 2011

Government funds for new Lackagh playground


AN application for funding of more than €100.000 for the provision of a children’s playground in the Lackagh area is set to be approved next week, according to two local Fine Gael representatives.

Planning permission for the 940 square-metre playground was granted by Galway County Council last month and the project should get the green light shortly when government funding of €105,000 is expected to be sanctioned.

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