galway

Doesn't hurt that Athenry is close enough to Galway City, and that makes it a great place to live.

So it looks like you're looking for work in Galway - often called an overgrown village.

HP has downsized in Ireland in the past, Galway in particular, but that's a chain reaction from it being Digital, then Compaq.

I never really found a slum in my wanderings of Galway and Dublin but all US cities have slums.

For instance, Cork and Galway are great cities.

You'd imagine far west Galway would be better again, with the added potential - I assume - to create infrastructure their own offshore wind energy.

I lived in Galway for several years and it sounds interesting.

I just spent a fantastic vacation in Ireland, traveling between Dublin, Cork, and Galway by car--which meant a lot of narrow but very well-kept roads between many tiny towns.

Its like saying I've never visited Ireland, although I have been to Dublin and Galway and a couple places in between, or some similar static type language failure like that.

As the article says, O'Donovan has written to the Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, John O’Mahony TD, who is well-qualified to see through this nonsense -- he was elected because of his fame as the manager of the 1998 and 2001 All-Ireland winning Galway Gaelic football team.

The best part of the site is his piano rendition of the Martin Galway soundtrack of a c64 videogame called "parallax" -- check it out.

Galway definitely does have a software development industry but it is not exactly a hackers Mecca.

With that attitude you might have a tough time in Galway, and do okay in Shanghai.

Nah, that was somewhere near Balinasloe - was headed over to Galway.