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Clean Coasts and Galway Atlantaquaria are thrilled to host the very first Clean Coasts Observer workshop at Grattan Beach, bringing the National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Explore Your Shore! Project to life in Galway. This exciting new event invites volunteers to step into the role of citizen scientists and become passionate protectors of our local marine environment.

To celebrate World Oceans Day, and this year’s theme “Wonder”, Galway City Museum is hosting Ocean Celebration Week from Monday, 2 June to Friday, 6 June 2025. The Marine Institute is delighted to collaborate on this week-long programme, which features a range of free, family-friendly activities designed to spark curiosity and deepen our connection with Ireland’s marine environment.

The Galway Science & Technology Festival is celebrating 27 years of sparking curiosity and inspiring both young people and the general public to explore the world around us. Since its inception in 1998, the festival has grown to become Ireland’s largest event promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM).

The Galway Science & Technology Festival is celebrating 27 years of sparking curiosity and inspiring both young people and the general public to explore the world around us. Since its inception in 1998, the festival has grown to become Ireland’s largest event promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM).

The Think Before You Flush campaign has partnered with the Galway Atlantaquaria and Sinéad Mc Kiernan of Move & Breathe to deliver a family friendly yoga session followed by a beach clean. A presentation on water quality and how our activities in our bathrooms and kitchens can impact Irelands marine environment will play after the clean. The next free events take place at Ladies Beach in Salthill on June, 15 at 10am followed by Grattan Beach (Salthill) on June, 22 at 10am. All are welcome to join!

Galway Science and Technology Festival will run from the 12 - 24 of November, celebrating 26 years of inspiring young people and the public about the world around us. Medtronic is delighted to partner with the Festival as the main sponsor for the 22nd year running.

Galway Science & Technology Festival will run from November 13-25 celebrating 25 years of inspiring young people and the public about the world around us. The Festival commenced in 1998 and over the years has grown to become the largest event in Ireland for the promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

TV audiences at this year’s Rose of Tralee competition will hear about an unusual profession from one of the finalists, as the newly selected Galway Rose is a qualified embalmer who works with her family’s well-known undertaking business.

Last Monday, a group of students from 5th and 6th class from Kilglass National School in Co Galway delivered their 1.5 metre unmanned mini sailboat called ‘Seoltóir Na Gaillimhe – the Galway Sailor’ to the Marine Institute’s research vessel, RV Celtic Explorer, in Galway Harbour.

Up to 100 primary school teachers from Galway, Kerry, Waterford, and Dublin took to the beaches joining the wave of formal educators around the country keen to introduce marine themes onto the Irish primary school curriculum.