Controversial city Picture Palace to feature on Prime Time
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The controversial city Picture Palace is to feature on Prime Time this evening. (Tuesday 27/9) The SOLAS arthouse cinema has been the subject of several delays in recent years...
View ArticleGardai to begin issuing fines for public drinking
Signage will be put up across the city and Salthill shortly which will enable Gardai to begin issuing on-the-spot fines to people caught drinking alcohol on the street. The matter has been discussed at...
View ArticleAppeal for information on missing 15-year-old
Gardaí have appealed for information on a 15-year-old girl missing from Glenamaddy since last evening. Lauren Murphy was last seen on Monday evening. She is described as being approximately 5’ 6’’ tall...
View ArticleChaz finds his path to happiness via Blues
Groove Tube with Jimi McDonnell – tribunegroove@live.ie Award-winning blues guitarist, Chaz DePaolo plays a free show in Monroe’s Live on Thursday next, October 6. His latest Irish tour marks the...
View ArticleGalway Chamber launches Business Awards
Galway Chamber President Conor O’Dowd launched the organisation’s eighth annual Business Awards in the presence of the Mayor of Galway Councillor Noel Larkin at the Chamber’s offices this week. Having...
View ArticleDip and rise in sheep prices is on the way
THE Teagasc Sectoral ‘Road Map’ for sheep production in Ireland predicts a decline in the price of sheep meat ‘in the near-term’ followed by a recovery again in the run-up to 2025. It also points out,...
View ArticleNew compact SUV from Suzuki
By Gerry Murphy We will be hearing a lot more from Suzuki over the next few months with a number of new cars on the way from the Japanese car maker. First-up is the latest incarnation of the SX4...
View ArticleNew branding launch for top estate agency
The well-known DTZ Sherry FitzGerald nationwide estate agency has been rebranded as Cushman & Wakefield. The formal affiliate appointment follows the 2015 global merger of Cushman & Wakefield...
View ArticleMountbellew/Moylough make the most of second chance
MOUNTBELLEW-MOYLOUGH 3-12 MILLTOWN 0-10 Last year’s county finalists Mountbellew-Moylough might have been just a tad lucky to escape with a draw against Milltown in their first meeting, but at Tuam...
View Article‘A Feast of Bones’ makes for tasty Baboró treat
Arts Week with Judy Murphy Theatre Lovett, one of Ireland’s most popular theatre companies will return Galway next month, bringing their show A Feast of Bones, to Baboró Arts Festival for Children....
View ArticleGalway in cruise control!
One of the biggest cruise companies in the world could play a role in the development of an expanded Galway port. Harbour Master Captain Brian Sheridan said he had a “very fruitful and productive...
View ArticleGalway In Days Gone By
1916 Boy hero Not all the deeds of heroism are performed amid the heat and excitement of battle. Little James Finnerty, of Athenry, a lad of nine, by his heroism, on Thursday last, the 28th September,...
View ArticlePortumna blitz opposition to capture All-Ireland title
The Portumna GC ladies intermediate team proved too strong for their counterparts from Wicklow GC last Friday to capture the All-Ireland AIG Intermediate Cup. Portumna had defeated Tipperary’s...
View ArticleHair-raising tales for Halloween
Master storyteller Rab Fulton will perform three shows of Irish and Scottish horror stories in the City’s Crane Bar on Sea Road, throughout October to mark the run-up to Halloween. Each show will...
View ArticleBattles for support over location of new Galway Hospice
A battle for the hearts of Galwegians has begun with two opposing petitions being circulated ahead of a crucial vote on whether to allow Merlin Park to be rezoned for a new hospice. The Friends of...
View ArticleDunne rings the changes but outcome still the same
Cork City 5 Galway United 3 Scoring three goals in a game should, you’d imagine, be enough to claim the win, but that wasn’t the case in Turners Cross on Tuesday night as the hosts hit five of their...
View ArticleLittle between sides as title race enters semi-final stage
Galway defender Greg Lally, who suffered a cruciate injury earlier this year, could be in line for a dramatic comeback for Gort against 2015 county finalists Craughwell in the first of two...
View ArticleFormer ballet star brings something new to gym work
Talking Sport with Stephen Glennon When you hear of a new gym opening – or a new personal trainer on the scene – it is always interesting to hear what the background has been in terms of previous...
View ArticleAnother defeat but talks of a crisis are premature
Scarlets 17 Connacht 8 Rob Murphy in Parc Y Scarlets No one expected this start but let’s begin this report by trying to find a stable footing, a sober assessment that most people should be able to...
View ArticleTommy Dunne sacked – Board finally lose patience after poor run of performances
Tommy Dunne has been sacked by Galway United after the board lost patience with a run of form that has seen United’s season peter out from one of promise to a likely 9th place finish in the table....
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