In the aftermath of the 2016 General Election numerous politicians and political pundits continually warned, "There will be an election in six months". Some 20 months have passed in the meantime, with 2019 still being the likeliest date when voters will next go to the polls. However political parties are…
The Green Party is calling for the Connemara greenway to be made a priority by the government. The party has made a submission to the Department of Transport, asking that the project be pushed to the top of the agenda. It says greenways should be an instrumental part of Galway’s…
There’s been a significant rise in the number of Galway children being home-schooled over the past five years. Figures from Child and Family Agency Tusla show there were forty eight children across the county on the home education register in 2011. By the end of last year, that figure had…
Pauline O’Reilly’s son Finn was four when he announced that he didn’t want to go to ‘school school’. He’d been attending Montessori, where “everybody was lovely and kind”, according to his mother, but he had never settled, was constantly tired and was not looking forward to ‘big school’. “A lot…
‘Mum, I don’t want to go to school!” We’ve all heard it at some stage. However, when Pauline O’Reilly’s young son Finn made the announcement, she decided that she was going to take him seriously and keep him at home. The Galway family is now home educating , using a…