NAMA set to expand shopping centre next year
The National Asset Management Agency is expected to begin work next year on a massive expansion of the Gateway Retail Park in Knocknacarra, which will include new retail units, restaurants – including...
View ArticleDáil plea to move UHG to Merlin Park
Two local TDs pleaded with Acting Health Minister Leo Varadkar in the Dáil this week to urgently move University Hospital Galway to Merlin Park on a phased basis because it is “bursting at the seams”....
View ArticleCoroner and Gardaí join call for life-saving barriers
Safety barriers should be installed at a popular city pier to prevent accidental drownings, a court has heard. Gardaí and the Galway West Coroner have recommended the barriers as potential life-saving...
View ArticleTD to meet Galway campaign group about future of Irish Water
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway anti-water charge campaigners will meet with a Galway TD this afternoon to discuss the future of Irish Water. The delegation from Right2Water Galway is meeting with...
View ArticleGalway TD claims government health policy funding private hospitals
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A Galway TD is claiming that the health policies of successive Governments are channeling money into private hospitals. Speaking in the Dáil, Deputy Catherine Connolly said...
View ArticleGalway TD reveals majority of representations relate to housing and homelessness
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A Galway TD has revealed that sixty percent of all representations made to his office relate to housing and homelessness. In his maiden speech in the Dail, Roscommon Galway TD...
View ArticleIDA boss says Parkmore relief road and new manufacturing facility could...
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The CEO of IDA Ireland says a new advanced office facility planned for Parkmore has the potential to attract major investment into the city. Last year, Galway was one of six...
View ArticleMan who strangled brother not guilty of murder by reason of insanity
A 41-year-old Carraroe man who strangled his brother to death with a bungee cord before hiding his body in a pit by the Cliffs of Moher has been found not guilty of his murder by reason of insanity....
View ArticleNUIG combines technology and history for new classroom iBooks on 1916
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Two new multi-touch books which tell the story of the 1916 Rising in Dublin were launched today at Scoil Chroí Íosa in Galway city. The publications were produced by Seán Ó...
View ArticleIsland singer aims to complete album after cancer diagnosis
One of the country’s best known traditional singers is back making sweet music – after the shock of a cancer diagnosis when she was five months pregnant. Aran Islands singer Lasairfhíona Ní Chonaola...
View ArticleGalway’s Independent TDs reveal demands for deal
Galway’s Independent TDs insist their mission is to bring rural Ireland back from the brink – not to hold the country to ransom with ‘parish pump’ politics. The four Independents, representing three...
View ArticleCall for unity as details of flood funding revealed
Some of the State’s main agencies are to be approached over the coming weeks in a desperate effort to try and resolve the flooding disaster in South Galway. This comes in a week that saw confirmat that...
View ArticleSurvey finds two-thirds of dumping fines unpaid
Two thirds of all fines issued by Galway County Council for illegal dumping and littering remain unpaid. The figures also reveal that on average, a quarter of all illegal dumping fines issued by the...
View ArticleGalway company chosen by Google for startup programme
A Galway company has been selected by internet giant Google to take part in a prestigious programme for promising startup ventures. Altocloud, headquartered at NUI Galway, is a communications company...
View ArticleCase settled over fall from pony in Galway
Galway Bay Fm newsroom- A Belfast-based Dentist has settled her High Court action with a Galway-based riding school over injuries she claimed she received due to being supplied with a pony she alleged...
View ArticleGalway singer celebrates going straight to number in Pop charts
Galway Bay Fm newsroom-A Co Galway singer made music history this weekend by being the first male singer from the county to go straight into Number One in the Irish Pop albums charts. Outselling last...
View ArticleIrish Water denies shower infection claims
Irish Water denies that the contaminated public water supply in Connemara is responsible for causing a near-fatal infection in one of its customers, a dialysis patient. The public utility, which...
View ArticlePortiuncula maternity report must be published
Health chiefs in the West have been urged to publish the maternity care review of cases at Portiuncula Hospital. The publication of the review, ordered by Saolta University Health Care Group some 18...
View ArticleGambling addict paying back €170,000 to conned couples
A county Galway electrician with a gambling addiction, who conned two couples out of almost €170,000, has to date repaid €31,400 and has been given more time by a judge to repay the balance. James...
View ArticleUnemployment down 40% from recession high
The number of people claiming unemployment assistance across Galway has dropped by almost 40% since their high nearly six years ago, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office. Over...
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