An initiative of Ballinasloe Area Community Development Ltd. To get in touch with Ballinasloe Life online, visit us here: www.ballinasloeenterprisecentre.ie www.facebook.com/BallinasloeLife AN INSIGHT INTO THE AREA WE LIVE IN Vol. 10 Issue 4: Oct' ‘20 - Nov' ‘20 Photo by Robert Riddell TOWn’S NEWEST FACTORY NEW COUNCILLOR PARSONS A LIFETIME THROUGH A LENS BEGINS Ballinasloe - Gateway To The West www.ballinasloe.ie Gullane’s Hotel & CONFERENCE CENTRE Evening À la CarTE Bar food Menu Now served daily from 4.30pm – 8.45pm Our menu is available to view online at www.gullaneshotel.com Reservations are essential Contact us on 09096 42220 to make your booking Main Street, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway T: 090 96 42220 F: 090 96 44395 E:
[email protected] Visit our website gullaneshotel.com REAMHRA Welcome to Volume 10 issue 4 Another few weeks of a Covid infused early Autumn has passed as For context - in February of this year Galway County Council’s we try and make sense of living in the Snakes and Ladders world grants in the whole of the new Ballinasloe Municipal Electoral of stages 2,3 and 4 where we move up and down, to the merciless area for Festivals, Arts, Culture and Heritage totalled €24,650! drumbeat of confirmed cases and fatalities. In this edition there is the tale of two firms, one that came to On the bright side the kids have gone back to school and most of town 40 years ago focused on the domestic market and created the town centre is drivable for the first time in nearly 26 months.