In line with Government recommendations on Social Distancing all GLR’s Scheduled walks for the coming weeks and the April Planning Meeting are cancelled. While Group Walking is not recommended, individual walking is encouraged, so please keep it up. These are challenging and testing times for us all with lots of information coming at us and…
Inishbofin Island Walking Festival
The Annual Inishbofin Walking Festival starts Friday April 24th to Sunday April 26th Online ticket sales are now open! Get your tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/inishbofin-walking-festival-2020-tickets-90618571587?aff=ebdssbdestsearch A detailed schedule will be on our Event Brite listing! If you are planning on attending, you can check out accommodation options here: http://www.inishbofin.com/category/accommodation/ and ferry times here: http://inishbofinislanddiscovery.com/
Date for your Diary
On Thursday 28th Nov The Loughrea Literary and Historical Society will show a documentary on the true story of Alcock and Brown first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean 1919. The Venue is the Library in Loughrea . The documentary was directed by local man Kevin Glynn. Reviewed and highly recommended by one of our…
Seecon Lough Path/ Galway Wind Park
Yesterday (24th Nov) 22 Club members , some new and many not so new followed the Seecon Lough Path, which is one of 6 walks in the Galway Wind Park, just outside of Oughterard. This walk follows the tracks and old trails of the forest around by Seecon Lough and despite the fog provided beautiful…
CPR & Defib Training
Loughrea Lions Club still have few places available for the above training on the 19th Nov @ 6.30pm in the Loughrea Hotel and Spa. Full details on the Loughrea Lions Club Website
Kylebrack Bank Holiday Monday
Seventeen GLR club members enjoyed a beautiful woodland walk in Kylebrack woods on monday.
Website Redesign!
Hi walkers! We’ve a new look and a new schedule available of all our walks taking us right through to April 2020. Use the new drop-down menu at the top of the page to see what’s going on each month! As with all website redesigns, we’d love to hear your feedback about our new look….
Date for the Diary : Planning Meeting
Our next Planning Meeting takes place in the Loughrea Hotel, Thursday 2nd April 2020. The Club encourages and supports club members to identify and lead walks. So if you have a walk you would like to “check-out” prior to the Planning Meeting, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Committee .
Planning Meeting
A club meeting to plan our walks and trips for the Spring and Summer 2019 will take place in Loughrea Hotel at 8pm on 16th Jan.
Sarsfield Route
On 7th Oct the Ramblers are on a memorial walk near Woodford. The Ramblers will remember the late Dermot Moran RIP who with great local knowledge and information led us on this walk and showed wonderful enthuasism for his local community and history. The route is 15km over some bog and tracks.
