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Galway City Council took home the prestigious ‘Festival of the Year’ Award at the 2025 Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards, announced at a national ceremony. The ‘Galway Climate Inspirations Festival – Communities in Action’ festival beat off stiff competition from the Dublin City Sensoria Festival, Howth Maritime and Seafood Festival, Brigid - Spirit of Kildare Festival, Willie Clancy Traditional Music Summer School and Kilkenny’s Toil and Trouble to bring the award home to Galway City.

The full programme for this year’s Galway Comedy Festival will be revealed tomorrow (Friday). In the meantime, organisers have revealed that the Pálás Cinema will be a key venue for this year's festival, which runs from October 21 to 27.

When we arrived at the Galway Advertiser headquarters, Eyre Square, they greeted us brilliantly, with a lot of empathy. They also gave us nice treats. At first a woman brought us up to Declan where we sat down at a board table. It was clear Declan [Varley, the editor] was a kind and a warm person, as we sat down to a table of Krispy Kremes, colourful socks and stationery.

Galway Theatre Festival 2025 is back, running across Galway venues from Friday, May 2, to May 10th.

Organised by the Embassy of Italy in Ireland and the Italian Institute of Culture, the fourth edition of this Italian movie showcase will tour four Irish cities, featuring films by some of Italy’s foremost contemporary directors.

The unmissable annual Galway Science and Technology Festival Exhibition Day will return to the University of Galway campus on Sunday, November 10 supported by main sponsor Medtronic and University of Galway as lead academic sponsor. All ages are welcome and free to explore immersive interactive stands by world leading global companies, local schools and research centres plus exciting shows and workshops inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Galway Comedy Festival is no longer just a city phenomenon, and it is expanding to bring major international comedians to the county as well.

Africa Day 2021, a day to showcase the vibrant cultural heritage of Africa and the contribution made to Irish society by African communities and people of African descent, takes place this week.

HOW DO we maintain spaces for shared sensual/sexual pleasure, and care, when personal safety is at risk? This question is at the heart of a new exhibition at the Galway Arts Centre.

In 1939 my mother and I spent Christmas with both my grandmothers and on a cold bright day we set off for Galway by train.