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The body set up to implement Galway’s winning 2020 European City of Culture bid, and its legacy, was unsuccessfully invited to attend Galway City Council three times last year, to explain its recent activities.

Local councillors are expected to dredge up the legacy of the 2020 City of Culture celebrations at the first full Galway City Council meeting of 2025 next week.

Waterford has been announced as the European City of Christmas with the 2024 Winterval Festival Programme. The festival will offer a host of festivities in the city from November 15th.

Preparations are already under way for the annual Winterval festival in Waterford, which has been named the European City of Christmas for this year.

Galway’s 2020 City of Culture needed €100m of State funding to guarantee success, according to a new study.

A total of 20 projects representing the five secondary schools in Athlone and Moate have been selected for entry to the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2024.

A new documentary which captures the unique heart of the historic Galway Market has been released. Galway Market traders in association with film maker Dawid Piotr Szlaga of Wild Islands Pictures, have produced a short film on the iconic market which has been in operation for centuries in the shadow of St. Nicholas Church in the heart of Galway city. This project was supported by Galway 2020 European City of Culture and features original music by Gabriel Gonzalez.

As businesses in Galway face an extremely challenging Christmas, the Government’s commitment to publish a new remote-working strategy and introduce 350 remote working hubs can be transformative for the county’s economy, however a regionalised approach should now be prioritised, according to ACCA Ireland.

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Former Irish Times Environment correspondent Frank McDonald said that Galway was Ireland’s answer to Carmageddon, and likened it to Atlanta, America’s capital of sprawl, when he made a lengthy submission to the Galway City Ring Road oral hearing, which is being held at the g Hotel in the city.