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Galway Future Homes & Building Exhibition is returning to provide ideas, advice, and inspiration for those building, extending, or improving their home. The show will take place in Leisureland, Salthill, on Friday November 26 from 6pm to 9pm, Saturday November 27 from 11am to 6pm, and Sunday November 28 from 12 noon to 6pm.

Proposals to re-zone land for commercial use on the outskirts of the city will only draw business away from the city centre and serve to facilitate those who wish to set up liquidation sales.

The Galway Festival of Science and Technology is the biggest single free event for youngsters in the West of Ireland and this week 20,000 tickets went out to schools all over the county for the festival exhibition, which is to be held at NUI, Galway on Sunday, November 21.

As any Galwegian will testify, the women in this city will use any excuse to dress up. On the night of November 23 The Dáil Bar will provide just the occasion for them to find glamorous frocks for the winter party season with Dress Me Up, a sale of new or nearly new party dresses, which will take place at 8pm. All proceeds from the sale will go to COPE Galway. Entry to the event is free with drinks from West Coast Cooler and canapés being served while buyers feast their eyes on the dresses, which will be priced from €10 to €50.

Galway’s House Hotel as been named as one of the best places to sleep by The New York Times newspaper, in a recent travel column by journalist Matt Gross.

A grant of €900,000 has been allocated for additional flood relief works in the Derrymullen and Ashfield areas of Ballinasloe.

Despite having major oyster festivals in common, it is unlikely that any twinning arrangement between Galway and Roxas City in the Philippines will take place.

Special return train fares to shop in Galway this Christmas have been unveiled by Iarnród Éireann.

Despite the massive rise in unemployment in Galway city and county over the past three years, there are signs that the crisis has stabilised.

The inaugural Glamour in Galway event was one not missed by many with huge numbers of fashionistas attending the day, which the event organiser Mandy Maher is delighted to announce will be an annual event going forward.