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Galway County Council has set out ambitious plans to expand and retrofit its County Hall headquarters at the September Plenary Meeting this week, announcing its intention to consolidate all staff and services under one roof by 2031, following an extension estimated to cost €61.8 million.

The launch of the 2025 Connemara Pony Show-Clifden took place on Friday evening in the town’s Main Square. Marking the 100th anniversary of the Show, the four day event will return to the Clifden Showgrounds from August 19th-22.

Concerns over ambulance response times in Connemara were raised at Tuesday’s HSE Western Regional Health Forum, prompting calls from local representatives for expanded services in rural Galway.

Galway’s public hospitals are moving to directly employ in-house security officers after spending nearly €9.5 million on private security contracts since 2020. The HSE confirmed it is actively recruiting staff to reduce reliance on external providers, with interviews held this month for Galway University Hospitals (GUH) at the HSE Western Regional Health Forum, which took place on Tuesday.

Old Ireland in Colour, a photography exhibition featuring work from the best-selling books of the same name, launched at Kylemore Abbey this week. The exhibition will run until late Autumn 2025 in the Victorian castle and will be part of the heritage experience which welcomes over 500,000 visitors each year.

Galway’s two local authorities have been asked to brace themselves for busy weekends across the city and county by providing adequate litter and toilet facilities at popular recreation spots.

Galway is the first city and county in Europe to launch a heart failure awareness campaign.

Martin J Walsh, the Irish-American Democrat Mayor of the City of Boston, Martin J Walsh, will next week become the first individual to be granted the Freedom of the County of Galway.

Galway 2020 this week announced the appointment of four new directors to the board following a rigorous board selection process: Maire Geoghegan Quinn, Caroline Loughnane, Christopher Greene, and Enda Newton were selected on the basis of their respective skill sets in order to add value, and augment the existing Board to ensure the successful delivery of the European Capital of Culture for Galway in 2020.