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This is the demand of Galway city councillor Níall McNelis (Lab) who has welcomed the Government’s decision in Budget 2026 to make the State’s pilot Basic Income for Artists (BIA) scheme permanent this month, but warned that serious questions remain unanswered about how it will operate.

TG4 has announced that former Commissioning and Acquisitions Editor Laura Ní Cheallaigh has been appointed as Director of Content for a seven-year period. Laura has over 25 years’ experience as a producer, director and Commissioning Editor of Irish and English language programmes for TG4 and RTÉ.

The body set up to implement Galway’s winning 2020 European City of Culture bid, and its legacy, was unsuccessfully invited to attend Galway City Council three times last year, to explain its recent activities.

A tasty new Kerry visitor attraction is bringing shellfish, aquaculture heritage, marine biodiversity and fourth-generation storytelling to the Wild Atlantic Way.

A powerful and deeply human story will take centre stage in Oughterard this weekend as local man Patrick O’Reilly launches his autobiography, I Move Forward So I Am—a book that traces an extraordinary journey from abandonment to belonging.

Galway Simon Community has launched its annual Christmas Appeal, calling on the public to help provide hope and dignity to people experiencing homelessness across Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. At the end of September this year there were 644 people in Emergency Accommodation in the West of Ireland including 214 children. It does not have to be this way. Last year Galway Simon Community supported 1,869 people, including 277 families with 579 children, to prevent them from becoming homeless. The charity reports that the number of people seeking help is continuing to increase.

There is a general lack of specific references to dancing in our older literature but it would be remarkable if there was no dancing in ancient Ireland, if a people with a native taste for music had no knowledge of the kindred art of dancing. There are two Irish words for dance, ‘damhsa’ and ‘rince’. The first is derived from the French ‘danse’ and the second from the English ’rink’ as in skating on ice. The Normans are credited with introducing ‘round dances’ to Ireland.

 It started as a drum and fife band, reinvented itself as a brass and woodwind band in the early 1900s, and again reinvented itself as a brass band in the 1970s.

Bay Broadcasting, the Irish-owned radio group behind Radio Nova, Ireland’s Classic Hits Radio and Sunshine 106.8, has this week announced the completion of its acquisition of Galway Bay FM following receipt of approval from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) and the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Patrick O’Donovan.j

Eileen Collins from Luimnagh, Corrandulla became Galway’s newest centenarian over the weekend. Her landmark day, a well-kept secret was celebrated with family friends and neighbours last weekend at the Arches Hotel, Claregalway. Family travelled from near and far with the longest journey being made by her grandson Chris who travelled all the way from Brazil.