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The streets of Galway were filled with colour, music, and tradition on Sunday, as more than 80 members of the Mexican community took part in the Samhain Procession, a vibrant celebration of Día de Muertos (the Day of the Dead). This marked the second year of the event and the first time it received official support from Galway City Council.

The power of the human voice will be the core of Music for Galway’s 44th international concert season, titled Breathe, to begin next month.

During the strictest period of the Covid lock-down, Galway artist Kevin McCarthy used the time to create a series of large paintings, never imagining he might one day be scammed out of one.

The Galmont Hotel & Spa in Galway is preparing to host the 13th Annual Business Events Conference taking place on Thursday and Friday February 6/7.

Colleran auctioneers has just listed a city centre apartment in possibly one of Galway's most scenic and tranquil settings at No 13 Fisherman’s Wharf, Bowling Green, Galway.

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Middle Street has six rooms teeming rooms with more than 150,000 books, which will surely satisfy all your Christmas book-shopping needs.

This Church of Ireland school is situated in Waterside beside the courthouse and the Town Hall, The earliest existing school records date back to 1901 to the Model School which was situated on Upper Newcastle Road. It had opened in 1852 with 400 pupils, many of whom were Catholics. This proved too much for the then Catholic bishop who set out to make way for explicitly Catholic education in Galway. He invited the Mercy Sisters and the Patrician Brothers to set up schools here and made it a ‘reserved sin’ for Catholic parents to send their children to the Model School. This resulted in 199 pupls withdrawing and meant the end of multi-denominational education in the city.

The Galway Community Pride Festival, the Galway Hooker Sailing Club and the city’s Indian Cultural Community association were the big winners when local authority grants for parties and events were announced this week.

We have to get over the silly nicknames first.

“We were led to believe that from St Patrick to the Book of Kells was this highpoint of Irish history; that after the Vikings and Normans invaded it was all shite and misery until Packie Bonner saved that goal at Italia ‘90. But there were a few good bits in-between, and even though our good bits were epic failures, comedy can be a great pathway to tackle these deadly serious topics.”