Illuminated Gleoiteog Manuela Marks St Patrick s Day in Galway s Claddagh Basin
16th March 2021
The gleoiteog Manuela has been decorated with lights by Bádóirí an Cladaig, the city association dedicated to training and restoration of the traditional craft
Credit: Screenshot Bádóirí an Cladaig
St Patrick’s festival is being marked with an illuminated gleoiteog in Galway’s Claddagh basin this week.
The gleoiteog Manuela has been decorated with lights by Bádóirí an Cladaig, the city association dedicated to training and restoration of the traditional craft.
The vessel was named in memory of Manuela Riedo, the Swiss student who was raped and murdered in Galway in October 2007
“Voyagers from the grave” read the headline in a Melbourne newspaper,
The Advocate, in 1877, and the report was about three Galway men who had by then become known as “the shaughrauns”.
The previous November of 1876, four men, had set out to fish from the Claddagh in a hooker, named Saint Patrick.
In the words of the skipper, Michael Moran, he and his crewmen Michael Smith, Patrick Moran, and his uncle John Moran, made for Slyne Head, about sixty miles from Galway.
That night a tremendous storm carried the vessel 150 miles out into the Atlantic, where four days later, three survivors were rescued by a passing Swedish vessel and taken to America.
Galway City Council Rejects An Taisce Pollution Claims as Greatly Exaggerated
11th February 2021
The Long Walk at Claddagh where a new wastewater sensor has been installed
Galway City Council has accused An Taisce of “greatly exaggerating” pollution claims and believes a new sensor measuring wastewater discharge into Galway Bay will prove the environmental group wrong.
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City councillors have been told this week that a new “level sensor/event monitor” installed at Long Walk overlooking the Claddagh in September will make an “informed estimate”.
It is one of a series of measures being undertaken by Galway City Council and Irish Water, councillors were told.
Galway Port is Round Britain & Ireland Race Stopover for 2022
4th February 2021
Racing in a past edition of the Round Britain & Ireland Race
Credit: Royal Western Yacht Club
Galway Bay Sailing Club in conjunction with The Royal Western Yacht Club (Plymouth) has announced that Galway Port has been selected as a stopover port for The Round Britain and Ireland Race in 2022.
This classic Round Britain and Ireland race which will be entering its 56th year will see over 40 boats competing in various classes over a three week period in May 2022. Starting in Plymouth, The Round Britain and Ireland Race has compulsory stopovers in Galway, Lerwick, and Blyth before finishing back in Plymouth.
A mid-19th-century British prime minister, Edward Smith-Stanley, had been well briefed before he received a delegation from Co Galway at Number 10 Downing Street in August 1858.
Galwayâs two MPs and the countyâs high sheriff were on the delegation, but it was led by a Catholic priest, Peter Daly, who had become a dominant personality in the town where the recent Great Famine had gravely exasperated the decay and decline of the two centuries that followed its surrender to Cromwellâs forces.
As chairman of the Galway Town Commissioners and a member of the Galway Harbour Commissioners, Daly was petitioning the prime minister for funds to develop the harbour to exploit a burgeoning demand for passenger sailings from Ireland to America.