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Two local athletes travel to Eugene, Oregon in the USA to participate in the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships this weekend.

The Galway-based company, which is due to tour North America this winter, says it wants to provide professional opportunities for writers, and women working as theatre artists on the island of Ireland, through its New Writing open call and its Marie Mullen Bursary.

Galway athletes will travel in numbers to the blue riband track and field event of the season on the domestic calendar, the National Senior Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Santry this weekend.

Galway’s Town Hall Theatre this week unveiled a vibrant programme of events for July to September including world-class festivals, theatre, music, dance, film, comedy, family, literary and special events. For full programme details, ticket information and booking updates, visit tht.ie

A seachrán can be a wandering vagabond, a clever rogue, maybe astray in the head as well as abroad, and the play that made the word infamous in nineteenth century America returns to Galway this summer, for the first time since 1982.

Tickets are now on sale for a staging of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten in Galway this autumn, as part of Druid’s ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’ theatre theme for 2026.

In the early fifties, Sisk’s (led by foreman Jack Lillis) built a factory ‘out the country’ on a two-and-a-half acres on Sandy Road. It was part of a 15-acre site and the state-of-the-art building would house an industry called Galway Textile Printers which would become known as ‘The Cotton Factory’ or even ‘The Cotton’. We already had a hat factory and a china factory in Galway, but this was industry on a new scale in here. They quickly became one of the biggest employers in the west of Ireland. A number of those who worked there were specialists who were brought in to help set up the factory, but most of the employees were local.

Both Margie Connolly’s late brother, Eugene, and her uncle Joe, wanted her to tell people about a place in Co Galway that was very close to their hearts.

On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.