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Galway City Museum is delighted to welcome visitors throughout the festive season, with adjusted opening hours to accommodate holiday schedules. The Museum will be open on Tuesday, 23 December from 10am to 5pm, and will close from Wednesday, 24 December to Monday, 29 December (inclusive).

Galway City Council has delayed its move to new headquarters at Crown Square until March 2027 at the latest.

There are gifts that delight for a moment, and then there are gifts that stay with someone long after they have been opened. This season, as anticipation grows around the arrival of The Hawthorn by Galway Bay, opening in 2026, there is a rare chance to give something genuinely remarkable.

As Christmas approaches, Enable Ireland is extending warm wishes to the people of Galway and beyond for a happy, peaceful, and safe festive season. The charity has expressed heartfelt gratitude for the continued kindness and generosity shown by individuals, families, volunteers, and the local business community who have supported its work over the years.

Galway City Council’s two nominations for the 2025 Pride of Place Awards were recognised for outstanding community work, at a gala awards ceremony attended by 500 delegates, in the Strand Hotel, Limerick on Friday nigh. Galway Sea Scouts were delighted to take home the Runner Up Award in the ‘Community Youth Initiative’ category of the 23rd annual competition.

This year marks 20 years of the Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim. Since the first crossing in 2004 with just three swimmers, the event has grown into one of Ireland’s largest and most loved open water challenges. On Saturday, July 19, some 160 swimmers took on the 13km stretch across Galway Bay in aid of Cancer Care West.

One of the most enduring and distinctive figures in British folk rock, Richard Thompson, will perform at Monroe’s on Sunday, July 27, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Galway Toastmasters has invited the community to its Open Night, at the SCCUL Enterprise Centre in Ballybane.

Esri Ireland, the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), has announced that Galway County Council has digitally mapped over 25,000 memorials, monuments, and gravestones using Esri’s ArcGIS system.

Over the last few months, creative Artist Mairead Brennan has been busy filling the aquarium with some new fantastic marine murals, and updating some of the pieces which have been in the aquarium since 1999.