Celebrate the races at Raviolo Verde

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

Located in Oranmore, Raviolo Verde is an ideal option for a pre- or post-Galway Races get-together, with amazing prices and fun for all the family. Open seven days a week, Raviolo Verde offers diners beautiful Italian cuisine, with tonnes of possibilities for events and parties.

Chanelle Pharma celebrates 40 years of partnership with the Galway Races

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

With just 10 days to go until the Galway Races, Chanelle Pharma is proud to celebrate 40 years of partnership with this much-loved fixture in Ireland’s racing calendar. This milestone reflects not only a longstanding partnership but also the company’s deep connection to the West of Ireland, where it all began, and its ongoing role as a major regional employer and innovator in life sciences.

Clayton Hotel Galway – the place to be for race week

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

Clayton Hotel Galway, the closest hotel to Ballybrit Racecourse, is once again the place to be for race week. Post-racing, Clayton Hotel Galway are ensuring that the party definitely does not end when the last race has finished at the track. Avail of the complimentary shuttle bus back to the hotel to enjoy their fantastic free entertainment line-up, including firm favourites Sean Slattery, The Experts, Dakota, Sum Craic and much more. Whether it is for groups of friends or work colleagues, the Clayton Hotel Galway and its exclusive backstage bar is a must to enjoy the full flavour of the Galway race day experience.

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Get race-ready in style with Suit Select

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

With the Galway Races just around the corner, there’s no better time to get suited and booted, and Suits Select, Galway’s newest menswear destination located upstairs in the new Paraffin Store in Edward Square, have suits deals that won’t break the bank.

Week Two of Arts Festival at Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

For a lunchtime traditional music showcase treat, join Nuala Kennedy on flute and vocals, and Tara Breen on fiddle this Friday, July 18 at 1pm.

The Baby's Room - where theatre and installation art blur

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

Constructed in the Bailey Allen Hall, University of Galway, this blend of theatre and installation art invites audiences to enter a hyperreal domestic baby's room until Sunday, July 27. Audiences can touch and explore the space before an audio narrative begins two minutes later.

Talk: Rewilding Ireland with Eoghan Daltun

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

The Man who saved an Irish Rain Forest talk with McHugh, environmental activist and former Green Party politician, will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall, University of Galway and will discuss rewilding in Ireland and Daltun’s journey of saving a dying 73-acre wild rainforest in the Beara Peninsula.

Secret hooker sessions return

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

The Galway Hooker Secret Sessions is ten days of music, craft beer, and electric atmosphere in a secret, city-centre location.

Galway’s over-30s club night returns

Thu, Jul 17, 2025

Galway’s very own Club 30 returns to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, July 26, from 6pm to 10pm, for an evening of non-stop dancing and throwback anthems from the Eighties, Nineties and Noughties.

Arts Festival down the West End

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

The first week of the programme opens on Monday, July 14, at 8:30pm with Session Americana accompanied by Eleanor Buckland. With nine records and a residency in Cambridge, Massachusetts, their vibrant, rootsy sound brings together American country, jazz, and rock.

Irish psychological thriller to premier at Fleadh

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

I Hope We Can Still Be Friends is the innocent-sounding title for a new, revenge thriller filmed around Galway to be premiered tonight, Thursday, July 10.

The return of Cry Before Dawn

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

Bringing together guitar-driven rock with the influence of trad, incorporating instruments such as the Uilleann pipes and whistles, the Wexford band is continuing its traditional sound with the latest single, Open Water.

FILM REVIEW: The Shrouds

Films Reviews Thu, Jul 10, 2025

A deeply personal, thought-provoking film about grief and memory with a discomfiting sci-fi invention at its centre.

All families are mad

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

In the aftermath of their father’s death, four estranged siblings are called back to their childhood home to decide the future of the family estate.

NOTIFY all: delicate melodies at Monroe’s

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

Known for their combination of traditional Irish music with elements of jazz, post-rock and cinematic sounds, NOTIFY features six of Ireland’s accomplished musicians.

Stormy debut from band with Galway roots

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

‘Existing Condition’ from Petrel, is a tense, brooding meditation on fractured identity, and the strange calm found in chaos. It is on general release tomorrow, Friday July 11.

Theatrical but not theatre, dramatic but not drama, GIAF presents ‘Sabotage’

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

Changing preconceptions, the contemporary circus will open tomorrow, Friday, July 11, and run until July 27. Audiences at this Galway International Arts Festival event can enjoy the theatrics of trapeze, dance, juggling, and acrobatics, but all wrapped up and presented in a very different way than traditional circus.

A double-bill of devastatingly beautiful theatrics

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

T5 and Sea Wall are modern plays with traditional, old-fashioned theatrics and storytelling. Stripped down to the bare essentials, they become just a story with an actor and the audience, driven by both the language and plot line from Belfast-born playwright Simon Stephens. The double bill runs at Nun’s Island Theatre from Saturday, July 12 to July 26.

Manc duo celebrates Galway roots

Thu, Jul 10, 2025

A new Manchester band with Galway roots has dropped its debut EP Heaven Here, combining musical traditions from the West of Ireland with Northwest England’s rock n’ roll.

Summer magic at the Town Hall Theatre

Thu, Jul 03, 2025

The Town Hall Theatre has just launched an exciting programme of events for July - September 2025 that will entertain and enthral!

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