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On Friday night Galway Mechanic’s institute host Jinx Lennon, Ursidae and Dogs. Jinx Lennon is touring his most recent album – ‘Walk Lightly When the Jug is Full‘. The album is my North East punk folk voyage into Celtic tunings which I spent the covid years getting to grips with…
Does screen time make difference to sleep quality in younger people?Do mobile phones impact fertility? iHealthFacts.ie is a resource where the public can quickly and easily check the reliability of a health claim circulated on social media. Dr Paula Byrne is a member of the core team behind ihealthfacts.ie –…
Last week VOICE IRELAND along with a number of other health and environmental groups submitted and open letter to Ministers Ossian Smyth and Stephen Donnelly, explaining why these products need to be banned: These single-use smoking products contain plastic, lithium, and toxic chemicals, which are not biodegradable or easily recycled. Their recycling…
Just because the label says it’s green, it doesn’t mean that it is. In Europe, steps are being taken to reduce the untraceable claims made on product labels. The European Parliament has approved a stronger EU law that safeguards consumers from deceptive environmental claims and early obsolescence. The Directive on…
Galway City Council Love your Beach Week is back for the third year, with expert environmental talks, beach clean-ups, sounds of the sea percussion workshops, and a children’s sandcastle building competition! Events take place from the 7th to the 11th June, on Ballyloughane, Grattan, Salthill and Silverstrand beaches. All events…
Cruinniú na nÓg, Ireland’s national day of free creativity for children and young people under-18, takes place on Saturday June 10.Galway Arts Centre’s Nuns Island Theatre will host an array of events from 11am to 5pm – for young people and by young people – covering theatre, film, visual arts,…
Friends of Merlin Woods brings you another wild week of biodiversity working in partnership withlocal experts ,schools, universities with a whole host of events for the public.Biodiversity week takes place nationwide and is a wonderful opportunity for local communities tolearn about the importance of their local areas. Ireland is undergoing…
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland is encouraging people from Galway who have an innovative idea to solve a particular social problem to apply for a place on its two support programmes valued at €500,000. Applications for the Ideas Academy are open until midnight on Tuesday, 16th May and applications for the Impact…