Galway Bay FM News Archives
Another Galway milliner heading for success!
Date Published: 26-May-2011
by Peter Horgan
A Galway milliner following in the footsteps of his famous mentor Philip Treacy is building a growing reputation for himself in the fashion world at home and abroad.
Mark T. Burke has seen his star rise just twelve months after winning the 2010 Golden Egg Productions’ Accessory Designer of the Year. The Loughrea native now operates his own business out of the spare bedroom of his home, but delivers all over Ireland and the UK.
His creative journey kick started in his native Loughrea, when he began working in costumes with Loughrea Youth Theatre a number of years ago and from there moved into working on various musicals around Galway. It was the production of My Fair Lady in Athlone and the Ascots that cemented his love of mhat design.
He interned under Philip Treacy after many “polite calls and emails” and has nothing but respect for his fellow Galwegian. “He’s top of his game. I’m not just saying that because he’s from Galway but there’s no comparison to him at all. Treacy most certainly revived the hat in the 1990’s and brought it back to the catwalk.”
“With the (Celtic) Tiger came the ability to splash out on that perfect outfit for the races, weddings and so on, and accessorize it to the hills! I thought maybe that would all die with the death of the Tiger but people are very much still having hats and headpieces made! The slight difference I have noticed is that many are using them for a few events or having them made to go with two different outfits. It seems there are milliners popping up everywhere these days – perhaps we are going back to the millinery traditions of the early 20th century where there were milliners on each street and every woman had their preferred milliner!”
The Royal Wedding, and the assembled headpieces featured that day, dominated a wide range of news headlines recently. Princess Beatrice’s hat (designed by Mark’s mentor, Philip Treacy) fetched over £80,000 on eBay this week for charity. And the 23 year old has seen some interest spike since the occasion.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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