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It is that time of year again. The Christmas season is fast approaching and with only 40 days left before the big day, the last few weeks are usually spent dashing around shops, making lists (and checking them twice), making a mess wrapping gifts, buying the most ridiculous Christmas jumpers and, most importantly, enjoying some well-deserved time off. Buying the perfect gift can be stressful, to say the least, with phones, gift vouchers, and laptops grazing the top of the list. But what do you buy someone who has everything, or someone who is not interested in the latest gadgets and gizmos? The travel specialists at 2 Bridge Street know just the thing.

A remarkable snapshot of Straide community has been captured on a one-hour documentary film sponsored by the Straide Pride of Place Committee.

A new service for holidaymakers from the West of Ireland to Majorca in sunny Spain will commence on March 31, 2020, from Ireland West Airport with their newest airline partner Lauda.

A new service for holidaymakers from the west of Ireland to Majorca in sunny Spain will commence on March 31 2020 from Ireland West Airport with its newest airline partner Lauda. The new service will operate twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays from March to the end of October, and provides further choice and sun holiday options for people living in the west, midlands, and northwest. Lauda is a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of Ryanair Holdings plc, a low-cost carrier based in Vienna in Austria and currently flying to 38 destinations across Europe.

A record breaking 600 senior medtech professionals will be attending the Medtech Rising 2019 conference which takes place December 4/5 in Galway.

Google is encouraging Galway's female students to take up computer science with a new scholarship programme.

CONTEMPO WILL bring Galway audiences on a musical trip to Bulgaria, performing works by Marin Goleminov and Dobrinka Tabakova at the next From Europe with Love concert.

Going to the pictures; going to the flicks; going to the movies; whatever your preferred terminology, a trip to the cinema is arguably the world's most beloved leisure activity ever since the first commercial screening of a film took place in Paris in December 28 1895. In fact, according to UNIC, Ireland is the highest cinema going nation in Europe for the past four years. And despite technological advances which have enabled us to watch films on our laptops and our phones, there is no movie watching experience that can claim to be superior in engaging the brain, stirring our emotions, and feeding our souls, like sitting in a theatre in front of the big screen.

Last Saturday, like many of our readers, I put aside to watch two main items on television : 1) the rugby quarter-final, Ireland versus the All Blacks, and 2) the proceedings in Westminster when Boris Johnson would endeavour to bring in his settlement with Europe.

Galway’s novel street entertainment has helped the city be named the fourth best city in the world to visit in 2020 by Lonely Planet – coming in ahead of cities like Vancouver and Denver. The accolade comes just two months before controversial busking bye-laws are introduced in the city. The leading travel media company unveiled the accolade on Monday night in the prestigious Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2020 – its collection of the world’s hottest trends, destinations and experiences for the coming year.