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Galway fashion designer Róisín Dockry will showcase her latest collection at Ireland’s annual ARC Fashion Show on March 28 at the RDS Concert Hall Dublin. Now in its ninth year, the ARC Fashion Show to support Cancer Centres will feature the biggest line-up yet with 25 fashion designers, five accessories designers and eight milliners.

Celebrating its 40th year and taking place from Monday February 5 to Tuesday February 13, 2024, the annual Solemn Novena nine-day Festival of Faith will invite, welcome and embrace the people of Galway and beyond to leave down the worries and cares of life and to worship, sing, pray and give praise to God and His blessed Mother, Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

AIB, proud partner of the GOAL Mile, is calling on local GAA communities to ‘Step Up Together’ and take part in the GOAL Mile this festive season with their friends and families.

As we pointed out last week, much of what we now know as Woodquay was under water until the funnelling of the various streams that came down from the Corrib into the river that we know today began in the mid-19th century. As part of the project, the lands of Woodquay were gradually reclaimed. The people living in the area in those early years were mostly small farmers and fishermen. Their houses were very basic, single story, and for the most part, thatched and built of crude stone. There were of course some landmark houses but things began to change generally around the turn of that century with the construction of terraces of new slated houses around the broad space of Woodquay as we know it today, mostly built by the Urban District Council.

In every province and county in Ireland, GAA grounds are cornerstones of culture and community. They are imbued with history and their terraces echo with the sounds of decades, even centuries, of spirited sporting battles.

“I grew up in a Galway family steeped in manual labour, so if there was a book in my hand, I’d be asked why there wasn’t a shovel in it when I was fit for digging,” says writer Conor Montague. “I’d often be thinking up a story on the way to working on a site, because if the other fellas stopped for a listen, then you’d get a quick breather from the heavy, heavy work.”

Market rents in County Westmeath were on average 9.6% higher in the third quarter of 2023 than a year previously, the latest quarterly Daft.ie rental report has revealed.

The annual Galway Science and Technology Festival Exhibition Day is a calendar highlight for Galway students and families. Last Sundays event drew thousands of people of all ages as they marvelled at a range of activities including the Medtronic Junior Hospital, the ever-popular Teddy Bear Hospital, exotic animals with The Bug Doctor plus primary and secondary school exhibition stands.

The Midlands Science Festival takes place again this November with a wide range of free public events for all age groups.

This Halloween midterm break, the ghosts of Gaelic Ireland may be gracing the galleries of Galway City Museum as Dave Swift of Claíomh Living History, shines a light on Ireland’s Gaelic past.