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Kate O’Sullivan, trading as KA Woodcrafts and representing Portumna Community School in Portumna, has taken first prize in the Senior category at this year’s Student Enterprise Programme Galway Finals. The business will now go on to represent Galway at the Student Enterprise Programme National Finals in Mullingar on May 7.

The largest boys school in Galway city has been forced to reject 250 applicants for its autumn 2026 term as it has run out of space.

Two decades of frustration have led the Board of Management, staff, parents and school community of St. Joseph’s Patrician College (The Bish) to express their disappointment at the news that the long-awaited new 1,000 student school campus in Dangan has not been included on the Department of Education and Youth’s list of projects prioritised to proceed to construction in 2026 and 2027.

Specsavers Headford Road has announced its new partnership with St. Joseph’s College (The Bish), becoming the official Optical Partner for the school’s esteemed rugby teams for the 2025-2026 season.

Tonight (Thursday Oct 3), the Leaving Certificate Class of 1984 from Saint Joseph’s College, affectionately known as “The Bish,” will gather at Taylor’s Bar on Dominick Street Upper from 8pm to celebrate four decades since they left the halls of their alma mater.

Comedy superstar John Bishop is getting Back At It – doing what he does best – with a new tour for 2024 including three nights across County Galway.

Bish oarsmen past and present and their families gathered in Galway Rowing club, in the heart of Rowing Country, to formally launch their much-anticipated inaugural Yearbook 2023.

The sun shone brightly for the 139th Galway Regatta which took place recently with the largest entry for several years.

The lodging of the planning application for the new school for The Bish with Galway City Council has been welcomed by a city councillor.

The Patrician Brothers, at the invitation of the last Catholic Warden of Galway, arrived in Galway in 1826 and a month later they opened St Patrick’s Monastery and School on Market Street. They initially had 200 pupils but this figure rapidly grew so that during the Famine, there were more than 1,000 boys being educated, fed, and many of them clothed there every day. The school was a major success but there were no educational facilities for older boys in the ‘lower orders’ in Galway so Bishop McEvilly invited the Patrician Brothers to set up a secondary school.