Games & Tech
Zhivago Gifts: your one-stop shop this Christmas
Thu, Nov 13, 2025
As the festive season approaches, Zhivago Gifts on Shop Street is once again ready to make Christmas shopping easy, fun, and full of cheer. The Galway favourite is stocked with the brightest and best albums of 2025, making it the go-to destination for music lovers and gift-givers alike.
Health, Beauty & Fashion
Anne Murphy’s inspiring transformation ahead of Christmas
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
A single photograph from a carol service can sometimes capture more than a festive moment; it can tell a powerful story of change. For Renmore woman Anne Murphy, a snapshot from Christmas 2023 now serves as a reminder of just how far she has travelled on her health journey.
Food & Wine
Fay’s SuperValu Oranmore
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
Fay’s SuperValu Oranmore continues to shine as one of Galway’s standout retail destinations, combining exceptional service with a strong commitment to quality.
Home & Garden
Zhivago Gifts has you covered this Christmas
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
Zhivago Gifts’ incredible Christmas Gift store is now open on Shop Street, offering hundreds of ideas including the wildly popular Clutching at Straws game, mugs, books, Secret Santa gifts, calendars, funny gifts, socks, and anything shoppers could possibly need.
Education & Training
New bilingual postgraduate programme launched at ATU
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and Údarás na Gaeltachta have officially launched a pioneering bilingual postgraduate Management Development programme.
Travel & Outdoors
Fahy Travel celebrates second consecutive win as Ireland’s Best Touring Agent
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
Fahy Travel has been named Best Touring Agent in Ireland for the second consecutive year at a prestigious awards ceremony held at the Clayton Burlington Hotel on Friday night. The honour is particularly meaningful to the Galway-based company, as the award is determined entirely by public vote.
Old Galway
Street selling in Woodquay
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
Markets and fairs were where town met country years ago, when rural people from the hinterland came into town with their produce and sold it on the streets to the townspeople who needed it. So the city hosted cattle fairs, sheep fairs, horse fairs, hiring fairs, vegetable markets, hay markets, fish markets, sock markets, fowl markets, egg and butter markets. When the country people sold their produce, they would often spend money on necessities they could not produce at home such as flour, tea or sugar. If they did not sell, they had to return home, usually by shank’s mare, with whatever they had to sell, whatever the weather.
