By SIOBHÁN HOLLIMAN AWARD-winning milliner Philip Treacy and All-Ireland medal winner and inter-county football hero Padraic Joyce are among a small group who will be honoured later this month by the GMIT. Ahascragh-born Philip Treacy will return to his native county for the event, where President Michael D Higgins will also be in attendance. They [...]
THE ORGANISERS of a free seminar to be held this Thursday in Galway say their aim to to help families trying to survive under the burden of debt. New Beginning, who support people in financial crisis, have been inundated with requests for support from across Ireland. A significant number of calls have come from the Galway area [...]
PLANS to celebrate National Heritage Week are gathering pace, with people urged to harness the Gathering theme when organising events to showcase local natural and cultural heritage. Online event registration for this year’s National Heritage Week event guide is now open and a free, event organiser training day will be held on Friday, May 24 [...]
“TO a certain degree, he got what he deserved. He was acting the maggot, but I think the defendant went a bit over the top,” was how Judge Browne summed up an assault case in which the victim was hospitalised and had his jaw broken in two places. Judge Geoffrey Browne made his comments when [...]
By TONY GALVIN AS local politicians around the county brace themselves for a commission report due at the end of this month which will see significant boundary changes in the five electoral areas: Tuam, Ballinasloe, Loughrea, Oranmore and Connemara, a call has again been made for the amalgamation of Galway City and County Councils. The [...]
By TOM GILMORE A YOUNG Tuam secondary school teacher, Anna Marie Jennings from 6, St Benin’s Terrace, who is currently teaching in Portumna Community College, will be working in a very different setting next month as a volunteer among the disadvantaged children of Nepal. Anna Marie, daughter of Bernie and Martin Jennings, is packing her [...]
By JACQUELINE HOGGE SCIENCE students from Tuam and Glenamaddy are to take part in a major project exhibition in GMIT tomorrow (Thursday) as part of the 2013 Young Scientist SciFest. Co-ordinated by GMIT’s schools liaison office and its science school, over 70 poster projects on a wide variety of interesting topics will be on public [...]
VEC chairman fears that changes to PLCs could hit mainstream schools By TOM GILMORE CHANGES to Post-Leaving Certificate courses proposed by the Government could have negative implications for some mainstream vocational schools around Galway, according to members of Co Galway VEC. The matter was raised at the monthly meeting of the VEC and CEO Joe [...]
ATHENRY welcomed the co-founder of an international computer club in recent weeks as part of Presentation College’s newly formed CoderDojo club. James Whelton spoke to students, staff and invited guests about the club, and about his own life and achievements, including the founding of CoderDojo, which has grown to become a computer phenomenon with clubs [...]
SECONDARY school students will have a chance to experience university life at a series of summer schools next month at NUI Galway. The six schools, across the disciplines of business, nursing, computing, engineering and science, are specially designed to give prospective students a real taste of university life through a wide range of hands-on practical [...]
