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A CONTRACTOR who swapped a broken part in his digger for a working one from another digger made a “monumental mistake” and was very remorseful, Judge James Faughnan heard at Tuam District Court this week.

From a family business in Claremorris to a single toy shop in Galway, Smyths Toys has grown into one of Europe’s biggest toy retailers — while keeping its roots firmly planted in the West of Ireland.

Galway's junior and intermediate pitch and putt men's teams travelled to the Leinster Intercounty Finals in Dublin last weekend.

Tony O’Dwyer’s new poetry collection Waiting for the Mason will be launched this Friday, July 10, at 6pm, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop.

Tickets are now on sale for a staging of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten in Galway this autumn, as part of Druid’s ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’ theatre theme for 2026.

When Erica Herwood learned that her son, Keelan, had autism, she was thrown into a world she never imagined being in, she says.

Last Friday, Galway Autism Partnership (GAP) welcomed a very special visitor to GAP House as Thomas Byrne and his family called in to celebrate the remarkable success of a fundraising initiative that has captured hearts across the community.

“I don’t want to throw my client’s spouse under a bus” a defence solicitor told Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court, to which the Judge responded “but you just have”.

On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.