Galway Cartoon Festival Launches Today

Ahead of this evenings launch of Galway Cartoon Festival we spoke with Kernan Andrews to preview some of the Artists coming to Galway in October The launch will take place at Charlie Byrne’s bookshop at 6pm today and a host of National and International Artists are already announced for this…

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Midlands North West: Galway Candidates

Over the past week we’ve interviewed all the Galway based Candidates running for Midlands North West in The European Parliament Elections; you can listen to all the interviews on the below – We will be interviewing more of the Connaght based candidates over the coming days in line with our…

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Midlands North West – Hustings, Town Halls, Disability and the Sinister

With the Midlands North West European Elections coming ever closer the calendar of events is getting ever busier. University of Galway Students’ Union will be hosting MEP Candidate Hustings for theMidlands North West Region at a revised time of 5pm on Monday 20th of May upstairs in Áras na Mac…

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Flirt FM Election Policy – Midlands North West

Flirt FM is a community Radio station based in Galway city, operating under a community licence, is a member of Craol and operates under the principles of the AMARC Community Radio Charter for Europe and is licenced for FM broadcast by Coimisiún na Meán.Due to the unprecedented number of candidates…

Students’ Union Raises Record €53,275 for Charity

University of Galway Students’ Union today presented the proceeds of their year of
fundraising events to Galway Rape Crisis Centre and Cancer Care West. The unique
charity events held throughout the academic year raised a total of €53,275 for the
two charities – the most ever raised by the Students’ Union.

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Interview: Helen Ogbu on workers’ rights

Robert Forrest speaks to Galway City East Labour Party Candidate Helen Ogbu regarding the importance of workers knowing their rights, in particular during the Christmas period. Ms Ogbu is also calling on young workers to join a union in order to further understand their rights in the workplace.

PICTURED (Left to Right): Faye Ní Dhomhnaill, Dean Kenny, Raimey O’Boyle, and Izzy Tiernan (University of Galway Students’ Union)

Students’ Union to Host Pink Training

University of Galway Students’ Union will be hosting the national Pink Trainingconference event this weekend. Pink Training is Europe’s largest LGBT+Conference, which sees over 300 student delegates attend a weekend of residentialtraining. The weekend will include talks, workshops and plenary sessions run by USI(the Union of Students in Ireland).During the…

Coldvember in Aid of Galway Rape Crisis Centre

Coldvember is a student run, month long event in which you dip in the cold sea every morning of November. This has been run in University of Galway for the past few years and is in aid of a charity each year. This year coldvember are giving their donations to…