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Galway City Council has invited representatives of the Galway Culture Company to attend a full council meeting to explain its activities to councillors since Galway won the European city of Culture competition in 2020.

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.

The Galway Chamber Business Awards 2024, held in partnership with The Shannon Airport Group, brought together 300 attendees at the Galway Bay Hotel on Friday evening for a night of inspiration and celebration. This year’s theme, “Celebration of Place – Mórtas Áite”, honoured the businesses and organisations that shape Galway’s economic, social, and cultural landscape.

In conjunction with Galway City Council, Galway Arts Centre announced the awarding of three art commissions under an innovative new artist-in-residence programme. The programme supports artists in engaging with the communities of Galway City’s Westside and creatively responding to scientific research on air quality and climate conducted by local citizens and climate scientists from the University of Galway.

Solutions to air pollution in Galway City are being explored as part of an innovative project combining art, community education and citizen action.

Galway’s local authorities must join forces to appoint a sports coordination and relationship manager, to ensure consistent support and a level playing field for all clubs across both the city and county. This is the view of Galway City West Independent candidate Kenny Deery, who says sporting organisations are being “neglected and ignored” by the local authority.

The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society, in partnership with the Galway Culture Company, is hosting an Artist-in-Residence programme this summer at Thoor Ballylee, W.B. Yeats’s summer home near Gort, County Galway.

There is nothing as innocent as the process of passion that drags you on the path to whatever you choose to do in life. The excitement of eking out a wage, of convincing yourself that people will want to consume what you produce is common across all occupations.

The CEO of Galway Chamber, Kenny Deery, yesterday (Wednesday) morning declared his intention to run as an Independent candidate for Galway City Council in the upcoming local elections. Mr Deery will add his name to the ballot paper in the Galway City West constituency, bringing an end to weeks of speculation following his shock decision not to seek an extension to his current contract with the Chamber, when it ends in early summer.

Tonnta - Galway’s newest festival, celebrating the Irish language and Galway as a bilingual city will run from today February 1 to Feb 4. Given the weekend that is in it, there are a number of themes, but the primary one is to celebrate Galway’s status as a bilingual city.