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Galway City Community Network (GCCN) is calling for a halt to the clear-felling of all healthy standing conifers in Merlin Woods. Galway City Council states that the clear-felling is intended to address the damage caused by Storm Éowyn that took place in January 2025.

Galway householders are being urged to bring their batteries, electrical, and electronic waste to a set of free collection days to help the county meet national e-waste recycling targets for 2026.

Connemara is to examine its links with Europe through a new Galway County Council initiative focusing on the environment, culture, education and migration.

Galway will welcome senior European policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies this autumn as it hosts a flagship conference examining the future of regional competitiveness, innovation and sustainable economic growth across Europe.

President von der Leyen set out plans for the ‘EU Kids Act’ at the State of the Union address in Strasbourg last week, which would ban personal social media accounts for under-13s.

A mother of six argued at Tuam District Court that as an EU citizen she has a right to be drunk in public. She told Judge James Faughnan that in her home country of Germany she had this right and so it should apply in Ireland where she has lived for 12 years.

Galway will soon welcome leading ocean researchers, policymakers, innovators and industry representatives from across Europe when Atlantic Summit Galway 2026 takes place at the University of Galway on 8-9 October.

Irish citizenship by naturalisation is a privilege, not a right, and it is appropriate that the conditions of citizenship are reviewed from time to time.

The CLIMB Accelerator Bootcamp, at CREW- Creative Enterprise West, is Ireland’s first dedicated accelerator/ scale-up programme for digital creative businesses and has been developed by team CREW in Galway with support from Enterprise Ireland. With only eight places, it has already attracted applicants from digital creative industries throughout Ireland that wish to address the challenges of scaling up and growing to compete internationally. The deadline for candidates is tomorrow September 18 2026.

A special Made in Galway showcase will be the city and county’s contribution to Cultúr 2026, the official cultural programme of Ireland’s current Presidency of the European Union.