Galway Bay FM News Archives
THE GUARD WINS GALWAY FILM FLEADH AUDIENCE AWARD
Date Published: 11-Jul-2011
‘The Guard’ has won Best Irish Feature Award at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Produced by Andrew Lowe and Ed Quiney and directed by John Michael McDonagh, the film, which stars Brendan Gleeson, premiered in Galway last week to much acclaim.
Other winners at the Fleadh this year are ‘Signs’ which won the Best First Animation Award and ‘The Boy who lived in a Bubble’ which scooped the James Horgan Award for Best Animation.
The Tiernan McBride Award for Best Short Drama was jointly won by ‘Asal’ and ‘Even Gods’.
The Best First Short Drama Award has gone to ‘Pentecost’ while the Best Short Documentary Award was given to ‘Needle Exchange’.
The Inaugural Donal Gilligan Award was presented to Michael Lavelle for ‘Mummy’s Little Helper’.
The International Federation of Film Societies awarded the Don Quijote Award to ‘The Boy who lived in a Bubble’.
Ruth Meehan won the 30 second Film Festival Judges Award.
The Best Feature Documentary Award was given to ‘Bernadette Notes on a political Journey.’
There were joint winners of the Best First Feature – ‘Parked’ and ‘Charlie Casanova’.
Finally, the Galway Film Fleadh pitching award went to Rioghach Ní Ghrioghair for ‘Death Rattle’.
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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