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At just 22-years old, Peter Healy already has one national award for ‘Best Male Stylist’ under his belt and is hoping to add two more at the upcoming Scottish Hair & Beauty Awards in Glasgow on Sunday, October 1.

Galway City Museum last week hosted an unveiling to mark 50 years since Galway’s own Commander Bill King completed a three-year world circumnavigation in his yacht, the Galway Blazer II.

At just 22-years old, Peter Healy already has one national award for ‘Best Male Stylist’ under his belt and is hoping to add two more at the upcoming Scottish Hair & Beauty Awards in Glasgow on Sunday, October 1.

Galway City Council has again achieved three prestigious Green Flag Awards, at the announcement this week by An Taisce Environmental Education Unit. The Green Flag Awards acknowledge Ireland’s best public parks and gardens, with Quincentennial Park in Salthill achieving the award for the fourth time, Children’s Millennium Park retaining the honour for a fifth year in a row and O’Sullivan Park in Mervue achieving the award for the second time.

Q: I was planning a career change. Well, when I say ‘planning’, it was more ‘thinking about it’ than anything else. I had a general idea that I would not be in my current field by the end of 2023, and I was starting to look around at options, courses and so on. Now I feel like battening down the hatches and sitting tight. What would your advice be? (ER, email).

Pat and Una McDonagh received the Outstanding Contribution to Sponsorship Award as the 2023 Irish Sponsorship Awards that were held in Dublin last Thursday.

The world renowned masters of storytelling and pioneers of imagination Macnas bring a brand new, spectacular and spine-tingling parade of unearthly magic to their native Galway on Sunday October 29.

The holy grail of fencing is having a fence that will transform a garden for the better, but when it comes to maintenance, treating a timber fence can never be called fun.

The National Breast Cancer Research Institute in association with Blackrock Swimwear, are asking as many people as possible to ‘Swim in Pink’ on Sunday, October 22, in Galway at Ladies Beach and help raise funds and awareness for breast cancer research during October, breast cancer awareness month.

An Athlone building designed by prominent local architect, Mel McGerr, has been shortlisted for a major international award.