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Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr Helen Ogbu met with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson last weekfor a strategic roundtable discussion focused on shared priorities including diversity, youth opportunity, climate resilience, education, and cultural exchange.

This week, Galway City Council has officially opened its 2026 Sister City delegation visit to Chicago with a reception at Ireland House hosted by Acting Consul General Pádraig Manning. The event marked the beginning of a three?day programme focused on strengthening civic, cultural, educational, and economic ties between Galway and Chicago.

Counter protestors outnumbered anti-migrant agitators ten-to-one in Galway last weekend, at an event organised to “reject” Helen Ogbu as the city’s elected mayor.

Galway City Council welcomed Marc Miller MP, Canada’s Minister for Identity and Culture, to City Hall last week as part of his visit to Ireland.

The Government’s decision to designate the N6 Galway City Ring Road as a critical infrastructure project under the Critical Infrastructure Act 2026 has been widely welcomed across Galway as a major step towards accelerating the delivery of one of the State’s largest road projects.

Galway Civic Trust/Dúchas na Gaillimhe has announced that the exhibition room at the Hall of the Red Earl, Custom House, Druid Lane, will be officially renamed the Peadar O’Dowd Gallery during a special public ceremony tomorrow (Friday).

Galway Civic Trust/Dúchas na Gaillimhe has announced that the exhibition room at the Hall of the Red Earl, Custom House, Druid Lane, will be officially renamed the Peadar O’Dowd Gallery during a special public ceremony tomorrow (Friday).

Taking a walk out to Mutton Island last week, the Claddagh resident said she was reminded of the summer’s imminent festival season when a fellow on an an eight-foot-high penny farthing cycled past “and nobody noticed.”

A €2 million rooftop helipad will cap University Hospital Galway’s €4 billion redevelopment, despite the HSE’s controversial purchase of Shantalla parkland to build a ground-level heliport.

Thirteen years after Galway City Council lent a piece of parkland to the HSE for six months, next week councillors will be asked to sell almost four acres of that park for an air ambulance base to serve the west of Ireland.