Editorial

Answering the President’s call

Editorial Posted on 13/03/2013 by Hilary Martyn
@galwayindo
Time and again in his relatively short presidency, Michael D Higgins has called on Irish people to celebrate an Irishness of which to be proud and he will again make the call in ‘Glaoch – The President’s Call’ to be broadcast on St Patrick’s Day on RTÉ. President’ Higgins says that throughout our history, literature, music and art have been a source of great strength, helping us cope with adversity and soothing our losses, while also opening us up to new possibilities of renewal and change and creating joy.
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  • Supporting yahoos

    Editorial Posted on 06/03/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Turning into the Yahoo! car park a couple of weeks ago, newly appointed CEO and mum of one Marissa Mayer is said to have been shocked by the lack of cars on the premises and swiftly sent a decree to all staff banning all working from home arrangements.
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  • Supporting Croí

    Editorial Posted on 27/02/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Anyone attending the opening of the Croí Heart and Stroke Centre in Newcastle in Galway City on a bitterly cold Friday last November will have been struck not just by the facility, but by the huge crowd of supporters that turned up on the day for the launch.
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  • Charity begins at home

    Editorial Posted on 20/02/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    With the World Giving Index 2012 citing Ireland as the second most charitable nation in the world, it should come as no surprise that Galway people regularly donate their time, money and energy to charity.
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  • My funny valentine

    Editorial Posted on 13/02/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Roses are red, Violets are blue, Enda Kenny’s struck a deal, On our IOU!   Love him or loathe him, You’ve got to applaud, We’ve gone from a large minus, To owing a smaller number of naughts.
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  • Better late than never

    Editorial Posted on 06/02/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Some things are better late than never. It’s as true for public transport as it is for Government acknowledgements and, in that regard, Minister for Public and Commuter Transport Alan Kelly’s recent admission that he is concerned about the passenger numbers on the Galway to Limerick train service is welcome, albeit behind schedule.
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  • Rugby-tackling change

    Editorial Posted on 30/01/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    The extent of the challenge facing the tourism industry in the West was laid bare at the Fáilte Ireland regional briefing in Galway last week, with tourism chiefs warning that we need to change the way we present our offering if we are to stay in the game.
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  • Rural station closures a worry

    Editorial Posted on 23/01/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    With city councillors alleged to be parking on double lines while discussing illegal parking in the city and others making jibes about shooting an intruder in their home, the general public in Galway could be forgiven for thinking that councillors see the current policing issues facing this city as something of a joke.
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  • Making the invisible visible

    Editorial Posted on 16/01/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Do all the crimes that take place in this city get reported to An Garda Siochana? While one would hope so, sometimes the figures just don’t make sense. Galway City Councillors expressed disbelief this week at the slight increase in burglaries in the city last year, saying the number of break-ins were “not adequately reflected” in the figures.
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  • Robbing Peter to pay Paul

    Editorial Posted on 09/01/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Rather than robbing a sickly Peter to pay for the care of a chronically ill Paul, the Department of Health must start treating mental health as an equal and should give serious consideration to Macra na Feirme’s call for it to ape the Road Safety Authority’s approach to road deaths to reduce the number of deaths by suicide in this country.
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  • Five positives

    Editorial Posted on 02/01/2013 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    Quoting the work of University of Washington researcher John Gottman in her quasi self help book ‘Flourishing’, eminent Irish psychologist Maureen Gaffney reminds people that we need five positives to balance out every negative to, well, flourish.
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  • Still going

    Editorial Posted on 26/12/2012 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
     According to the Chinese, it was the year of the dragon, signifying success and happiness, but will 2012 be remembered for either here, where a litany of low-points seem to have been punctuated by a few highs, as a cursory look at our 2012 Year in Review will attest?
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  • Broken promises

    Editorial Posted on 19/12/2012 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    It says a lot about politics in this country, even a bit about the Irish psyche, that we demand promises from those that put themselves before us for election, criticise them when they fail to deliver and criticise them again when they make a stand against their own party for failing to deliver.
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  • Fair or foul?

    Editorial Posted on 12/12/2012 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    With €3.5 billion in cuts to be made to our expenditure at a time when a lot of people are already on their knees, Wednesday’s budget was never going to be fair, despite Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s protestations.
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  • Please smile

    Editorial Posted on 05/12/2012 by Hilary Martyn
    @galwayindo
    The sign above the door leading into the infants’ room at the Kidane Mehret Orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia reads ‘Please smile’, not an easy thing to do when you see the children’s circumstances or you contemplate their future in a country where hunger and poverty are still rife.
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