Galway Advertiser 2004/2004_11_18/GA_1811_E1_001.pdf 

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Eyre Square work to be scaled down for Christmas
BY KERNAN ANDREWS Works on the Eyre Square Enhancement Project outside the fenced-off area will stop for five weeks from Wednesday December 8 to Wednesday January 5 to allow for the Christmas shopping period. The Galway City Council has distributed a copy of a newsletter setting out the progress of the Eyre Square project to councillors. It is intended to suspend works for a period over Christmas so as to minimise disruption and inconvenience for shoppers and businesses alike. As a result, all works outside the fenced off Kennedy Park will halt for that period of time. As well as this, the newsletter also details the works that will be talking place and are nearing completion. In the park itself, construction of a new toilet block will take place and the existing toilets will be moved into place. The existing walls of the old toilet block will be demolished. Also the foundation for a new kiosk and sail sculpture base will be built. On the east side of the square, permanent street lights and street furniture will be erected. The road will need to be temporarily closed for allow machinery erect lighting poles. On the north side excavations, drainage, and paving works will continue between Boylesports and the Bank Of Ireland. Tarmacking of one half of the road between Richardsons and Bank Of Scotland will take place. On the south side, the excavation and paving works between the Great Southern Hotel and AIB are due to be completed by Sunday November 29. Drainage works opposite OPW and Cara Cabs will continue until Monday December 6. The archaeological investigations have yielded the ruins of a 17th/18th century building in the north of the square and many items such as a stone age flint tool, clay pipes (some of which still had tobacco inside), Baltic amber bead, pottery, and leather. A toilet with part of its wooden seat was also discovered. It is planned to finished the square in October 2005. However Fine Gael's Cllr Padraic Conneely said the Eyre Square enhancement contract should be reviewed and its terms questioned as he feels the work is costing too much and deadlines have overrun.

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He huffed and he puffed -- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern blows out the candles on a cake to celebrate ten years as leader of Fianna Fail. The cake was presented by members of Cumann de Barra in Galway who hosted a banquet in the Great Southern Hotel to celebrate fifty years in existence. Pictured helping the great blow-out with An Taoiseach are Cumann chairperson Aoife Golden and Galway City councillor John Connolly. Photo by Aengus McMahon

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Surf the net free while you wait at the airport
BY JULIE TIERNEY Business flyers and web surfers can browse the net while they wait at Galway Airport from this week after the launch of a free wireless internet access throughout the airport terminal. A number of Wi-Fi hotspots are situated throughout the building ensuring reliable high-speed access. If you have a laptop or PDA simply contact the information desk for your personal username and password. Wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) is a new technology that allows users to browse the internet, check e-mail, download documents, and carry out other key communications functions without wires, connections, or cables. "We are constantly looking to improve the service we offer our customers and see Wi-Fi as a major enhancement of that service," said Jarlath Feeney, Galway Airport general manager. "Now you can continue working while transiting Galway Airport with broadband access to the world wide web, where you can transfer files and much more. "The service is unique in that not only is Galway Airport the first regional airport in Ireland to install a Wi-Fi connection for its customers, but the service is also completely free of charge," he said. In other technological developments at the airport, a new flight information display system was installed recently offering live on-screen flight information to passengers throughout the building using 48' wide screen monitors. A new satellite entertainment system was also installed in the bar and departure areas as well as a state-of-the-art public address system.

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