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Galway pizza trailer is making dough – and winning prizes - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

5 days ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

A pizza trailer business in Galway East set up in the depths of the pandemic lockdown has landed a major national restaurant award. Ugly Doughlicious – or Ugly D’s – trades at Yeats Lodge in Peterswell Friday to Sunday, and on Saturday mornings at the Ardrahan Farmers Market. Selling DIY at home pizza kits as well as pizzas cooked in a wood fired oven in the trailer, the business has proved popular with lovers of the Italian staple since it set up.
Galway’s rents still hit record new highs

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

Average rents in Galway city were up 12.6% in the last year – the third highest hike in the country. The latest quarterly Daft.ie report for the first three months of the year shows that rents in County Galway rose by 5.7% to €1,659 – and in the city by a whopping 12.6% where renters now have to fork out an average of €2,304 for somewhere to live. That’s higher than the national average rent of €2,023, which is the first time ever the property website has recorded rental above €2,000.
Speeding up process for elective hospitals will benefit Merlin Park timescale

1 week ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

The Health Minister has promised that a new process of designing elective hospitals will speed up delivery of the one earmarked for Merlin Park. During a visit to Galway, Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill visited University Hospital Galway (UHG), Merlin Park and the Lambe Institute at UHG where a donation of €4m from the National Breast Cancer Research Institute will be used to improve outcomes for women.
Galway city IPAS centres get thumbs up for care – but fail on procedures - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

2 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

Two of Galway’s biggest IPAS centres got the thumbs up from regulators for their treatment of residents — but were breaching some regulations by not carrying out risk assessments or fire drills. The two International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) centres — formerly known as direct provision centres — that were each the subject of two-day inspections by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) were located on Dominick Street and in Salthill.
Oh là là - no boobs, bottoms or trains merci

2 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamaraThe fashion world was all agog once with the announcement a day before opening that the Cannes Film Festival was banning nude dresses and giant trains for evening shows. It sent stylists, designers and the big fashion houses into a tizzy – after all outfits on the red carpet are meticulously planned for months.
Landlords under fire over spiralling rents

2 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

A suspected widespread flouting of the Rent Pressure Zone laws and failure to register tenancies by Galway landlords has attracted the attention of the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB). The regulator is ordering its compliance officers to target landlords here after eight consecutive quarters of high growth in new rentals. In Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs), landlords can increase rent by no more than 2% per year or the rate of inflation (HICP), whichever is lower.
People dumping rubbish the equivalent of an Electric Picnic every day in Galway city

3 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

the time you get up. You can put all the bins you want — it’s a cultural issue. We have to have members of the public helping. “I can tell you of the frustration every morning. We had a bin the size of small house — not only did they not put it into the bins, they threw it beside it. We also had bags left for them to fill. A lot of it is ending up in the river, so it’s polluting the place. It’s really sad really.”Cllr Frank Fahy said he regularly saw the state of the place on early morning taxi runs.
Galway Council still has 380 storm-hit houses to fix

3 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

Councillors moaning about the lack of progress on cleanup after Storm Éowyn were chided for their short memories by the man in charge of the operation. Cllr Declan McDonnell (Ind) kicked off the debate, citing a tree had knocked a wall between Tara Grove and the Atlantic Technological University (ATU). He told this month’s Galway City Council meeting that their officials had informed the university they had to make a claim against the local authority’s insurance company, IPB.
Fashion highlights of the Eurovision

3 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamaraIs this the year we relinquish our crown to Sweden as the top winner of the contest since we first entered in 1965? Johnny Logan became the first person to win the competition twice, finding success with What’s Another Year? (1980) and Hold Me Now (1987), before we racked up an astonishing four victories over the space of five years thanks to Linda Martin (Why Me?
Gort prepares to host record numbers for County’s Fleadh Cheoil

4 weeks ago | connachttribune.ie | Denise McNamara

A record-breaking number of traditional musicians of all ages and hues will converge on Gort next weekend for the Galway Fleadh Cheoil, returning to the South Galway town for the first time in 24 years. Comhaltas Gaillimh Theas launched the musical spree at Thoor Ballylee Castle on Bank Holiday Monday, with the help of broadcaster and local resident Dáithí Ó Sé.