Etto Named Restaurant Of The Year At Irish Restaurant Awards
Jess Murphy takes home the Best Chef accolade as The Irish Restaurant Awards celebrate their most successful ceremony to-date The Restaurants Association of Ireland is pleased to announce that the All-Ireland Finals of the Irish Restaurant Awards took place in the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, last night where the premier restaurant and hospitality establishments in […]
Delays With Apple Data Centre Demonstrates Problems With Planning System – Justin Molloy
The function of our planning system is to regulate our built environment in the interests of the common good and in line with our planning legislation. Using a hierarchy of planning guidelines and policies, that have gone through a public consultation process, we produce a series of development plans and guidelines that determine what we […]
Reflection And Remembrance: Pieta House’s ‘Misneach’ Event Returns This November
Pieta House’s annual ‘Misneach’ event returns for its second year to Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Edenderry on November 26th. Creating a space for us to both honour and celebrate those we have lost, and to reconnect with our loved ones, ‘Misneach’ is timed to fall between November, traditionally a time for remembrance and reflection, […]
Shorelines Arts Festival, Portumna, Co. Galway. September 14th-17th
The 10th Shorelines Arts Festival takes place 14th-17th September in Portumna, Co. Galway. The four-day festival has developed into a premier boutique festival on the shores of Lough Derg & the River Shannon. It’s a true community project with an extensive programme of literature, drama, art, music, film, workshops, as well as a schools arts programme and […]
Galway’s new M17/M18 motorway to open ahead of schedule
Many motorists in the west of the county shudder at the very mention of Claregalway and Clarinbridge – both notorious bottlenecks on the N17/N18 route between Sligo and Limerick. Those of you in the rest of the country may well recognise their names too, since they so often feature in our traffic reports. After a […]
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Ireland’s Cultural Cities Outperform EU Rivals
Ireland’s cities are ranked better than most of their European rivals in the EU’s new “Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor”. Of 168 European cities covered, Irish cities are some of the very best in Europe, with Cork coming in top place for “cultural vibrancy” among Small and Medium cities (50 000 to 250 000). In […]
New start-up SwitchingRooms.ie provides students with rent-free accommodation
www.switchingrooms.ie is a new online start-up that provides a solution to the housing shortage and escalating rents third level students face. Switching Rooms provides a platform for students to advertise the room they are leaving behind, on its database, search for a suitable match in the required destination and do a direct swap thus eliminating the crippling […]
CIF Western Region Gala Ball Returns
The CIF Western Region Gala Ball took place at the Westwood House Hotel in Galway City after a break of eight years. Money was raised on the night for the RNLI and the Croí Heart & Stroke Charity by over 200 members of the Construction Industry. Speaking at the event Chairman of CIF Galway Branch Paul Stewart […]
Rugby League’s All Ireland Grand Final
The McGettigans All Ireland Grand final will take place on Saturday 6th August at the Carlisle ground, Bray. The final will be contested between the best of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with their respective grand final winners the Rabbitohs (NI) and the Galway Tribesmen (ROI) duelling to become the island’s champion team. […]
St Patrick’s Day 2016 – A Travel Guide
It’s that time of year again – time to don the green feather boas and the tricolour and embrace our national holiday – St Patrick’s Day. A number of colourful and fun-filled parades will descend on towns and villages across the county this Thursday 17th March to celebrate our patron saint. Here at AA Roadwatch, […]
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