Food & Wine
Claregalway's Arches Hotel launches new delectable dinner menu
Thu, May 25, 2023
A cornerstone of Claregalway for some 50 years, the Arches Hotel, has reinvented its offerings to diners with a shiny new menu, full of delicious dinner options that satisfy all appetites.
Health, Beauty & Fashion
Chez Elaine 50 per cent off summer sale
Thu, May 25, 2023
Chez Elaine at Centrepoint Liosban is hosting a 50 per cent off summer sale on selected courses of treatments this May and June.
Education & Training
Preparing for the Leaving Cert
Mon, May 29, 2023
Two weeks to the Exams.
For Leaving Cert students, school days are now over, and the stark reality of sitting English Paper 1 at 9.30am in two weeks’ time is staring you in the face.
Travel & Outdoors
Discover the rich heritage of Gran Canaria
Thu, Jun 01, 2023
Clodagh Connolly from Fahy Travel has recently returned from a trip to Gran Canaria, in conjunction with the Spanish tourist office.
Old Galway
Scoil Íde, seventy years a-growing
Thu, Jun 01, 2023
On this day 70 years ago, June 1 1953, Scoil Íde opened for the first time. In 1952, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary purchased Allen’s Hotel on Dalysfort Road which had been run by John and Angela Allen. It had at one time been known as Daly’s Fort House, a high-class hotel run by a Mrs Galbraith. She sold it to a Mr Miller of Persse’s Distillers who used it as a private house and he sold it on to the Allens. Many will remember it as the place where Bruce Woodcock, the English Heavyweight champion, trained for his famous fight with Máirtín Thornton.
Galway Diary
Reading messages before Hitler saw them
Thu, Jun 01, 2023
Week III
Not only was Emily Anderson regarded as the best codebreaker working at the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS) at Bletchley Park, she had an instinct for recruitment. She brought several brilliant codebreakers on board. One discovery was the remarkable Patricia Bartley who at 24 years of age, made the surprising breakthrough into the German diplomatic code, known as ‘Floradora’, a sister code to the better-known German military code, Enigma.
