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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.

Donal Lynch, on behalf of everyone at the Ballybane Community Hub, has expressed heartfelt thanks to Cllr Helen Ogbu for her support in securing funding through the Galway City Council’s CAIRDE Grant 2025. The grant has enabled the completion of improvement works to the Hub’s back garden area.

The Ballybane Community Hub is set to host a series of exciting events this September, offering something for everyone — from crime prevention support to French cookery and creative cultural expression.

Artists and creative companies working at the intersection of arts and disability across Galway gathered for an important meeting at the Blue Teapot Theatre last week.

Artists and creative companies working at the intersection of arts and disability gathered for a meeting of Galway city organisations and creative practitioners at Blue Teapot Theatre. The afternoon was filled with inspiring conversations, focusing on artists, the work of artists with intellectual disabilities, with physical disabilities, as well as on developing the artforms such as theatre and visual arts.

Two Galway writers have secured the rights to The Poetry Jukebox installation in Galway, the first of such in the West of Ireland.

Outset Gallery have announced their first event of 2023 in collaboration with Galway City Council Arts Office.

What's going on around the county away from the headlines?