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Co Galway native Seán de Búrca has taken up the role of President of University of Galway Students’ Union, the representative group of over 20,000 students.

City Councillor Frank Fahy is seeking to win Fine Gael’s nominaton to fill the Seanad seat vacated by new Galway West TD Seán Kyne.

Housing campaigners in Connemara have written to the Minister for the Gaeltacht to express concern over announced plans for rural and Gaeltacht planning guidelines.

BOYLE Sports has announced a new initial three-year partnership with Galway Races, including a major milestone for the brand as it marks the opening of its 400th betting shop at Ballybrit.

There was hardly a dry eye among councillors in the chamber after Mayor Helen Ogbu was finished with them.

President Catherine Connolly said she has a responsibility to “always speak truth to power” as she accepted the Freedom of Galway City last Friday, while using her address to defend Irish neutrality and warn against the normalisation of war.

SOLICITORS took industrial action at Tuam District Court on Tuesday, when they joined with their colleagues nationwide in a protest against reform of the free legal aid system by refusing to deal with any case which involved legal aid.

Connemara councillor Tomás Ó Curraoin has responded with searing criticism to the announcement that Britain’s King Charles will visit Ireland next year.

Among the six candidates in the ‘Vote Left, Transfer Left’ alliance, Councillor Helen Ogbu emerged as the strongest performer from last week’s by-election.

It was supposed to be a battle for the soul of Galway West, but it became a clash in Connemara, then sub plots in the city, as Fine Gael strapped in for a rare government party win in a by-election where every vote counted.