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A man who was challenged by a staff member when he allegedly attempted to leave the Londis store on Newcastle Road, Galway with a box of Carlsberg appeared before Judge Adrian Harris via video-link from prison at Monday’s sitting of Galway District Court.

A local story that is making international waves, a SOS message found in a bottle that washed ashore the coast of Inis Óirr earlier this month, could be potentially linked to the crew of Taiwanese longliner Yong Yu Sing No. 18, who were reported missing in early 2021.

On Sunday, July 27, the curtain fell on the 2025 Galway International Arts Festival, marking the end of a two-week dazzling celebration of art, big ideas, creativity and culture. Celebrating on a larger scale than ever across the city and county, Galway International Arts Festival presented its most ambitious programme to date, and audiences flocked to see it.

Each year Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh join forces to bring to Galway some of the most exciting music acts to play at the iconic Heineken Big Top.

There is no greater harbinger of a Galway summer than the release of the Arts Festival’s programme, setting out what delights the city may salivate for until mid July.

Located in the heart of Connemara on the Wild Atlantic Way, Kylemore Abbey was originally built by Mitchell Henry as an ancestral castle in 1867. Later, after passing through the hands of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, it became home to a Benedictine Community of Nuns who were fleeing war-torn Belgium. In 1920, it was transformed into the iconic Kylemore Abbey. The Estate continues to be a home and place of worship to the Benedictine Community, who celebrated their centenary year in Kylemore in 2020.

It doesn’t get much better than summertime in Galway. A city steeped in history, culture, and life, Galway city should be top of everyone’s Wild Atlantic Way agenda.

All roads lead to Dexcom Stadium when French rugby aristocrats Racing 92 arrive in Galway for Saturday’s European Challenge Cup fixture (8pm).

He is one of the most recognisable faces in Irish film and television, but I sense early in the interview with Don Wycherley that he is not overly comfortable discussing past glories, rendering most of my pre-prepared questions obsolete. “I look a bit different from my Father Ted and Ballykissangel and Bachelor’s Walk days,” he says with a laugh, insisting he doesn’t get recognised on the street as much as one might think.

He is one of the most recognisable faces in Irish film and television, but I sense early in the interview with Don Wycherley that he is not overly comfortable discussing past glories, rendering most of my pre-prepared questions obsolete. “I look a bit different from my Father Ted and Ballykissangel and Bachelor’s Walk days,” he says with a laugh, insisting he doesn’t get recognised on the street as much as one might think.