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Galway City Council needs to provide the funds to allow people to spend a penny in the city’s public parks, according to Mayor of Galway Mike Cubbard.

A senior organiser of Catherine Connolly’s presidential campaign will announce her candidacy for this year’s Galway West by-election this weekend.

Galway City Council invites Residents Associations, community groups and allotment schemes to apply for the Local Amenity Grant Scheme 2026.

As the Town Hall Theatre enters its fourth decade, it is worth pausing to reflect on just how fortunate Galway is to have such a remarkable cultural home at the heart of the city. Few buildings anywhere can claim a history as layered, or a present as vibrant.

As the Town Hall Theatre enters its fourth decade, it is worth pausing to reflect on just how fortunate Galway is to have such a remarkable cultural home at the heart of the city. Few buildings anywhere can claim a history as layered, or a present as vibrant.

Are you looking for a special travel experience to ring in the New Year? Then take a trip to the world’s oldest operating lighthouse, on Hook Head in Co Wexford, where a unique historic event will take place on New Year’s Day.

This wonderful aerial view of the city looking across Lough Athalia was taken c1952. Lough Athalia is the anglicisation of Loch an tSáile, the Salt Lake, a tidal lake. There are so many changes to this cityscape since then, it is hard to know where to begin.

Left-wing councillors failed to convene an emergency sitting of Galway city council this week to discuss military neutrality and the Occupied Territories Bill before year end.

The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas is without doubt the only building where a Christmas service has been held regularly for over 700 years. It is the largest medieval parish church in Ireland, cruciform in shape, with a large nave, slightly longer than the chancel, flanked by aisles which are wider than the nave. The aisles lead on to the north and south transepts which meet under the tower.

Since the 1820s it has been a court, a seat of city government, a cinema, a conference room, dance hall and even a stockade for internees, but next year the old Town Hall building on Court House Square will celebrate 30 years as a thoroughly successful theatre.