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Galway Bay is widely celebrated as one of the region’s greatest natural resources, a place that belongs to everyone yet remains inaccessible to many. For Moycullen resident Kay Diviney, a member of the Gentle Swimmers group, the bay represents both liberation and limitation. Kay has Multiple Sclerosis and is a wheelchair user, yet each week she makes the journey to the water across from the Galway Bay Hotel, supported by her husband Cathal and fellow swimmers. What awaits her is a powerful form of therapy, but one that is not reliably within her reach.

As the city gears up for its annual Culture Night tomorrow, Friday, September 19, one politician says local artists need certainty on the €25 million fund if they are to continue to create art for public consumption which is not commercially viable.

Asked how he would respond to a formal delegation from the Fianna Fáíl national executive regarding the presidential election, the former Galway West TD responded positively.

The Shantalla-based politician formally quit her party last week, just days after Soc Dem TD Eoin Hayes was readmitted to the so-called ‘purple party’ after an eight-month suspension for being opaque about his investment in a company providing software to the Israeli military.

The Man who saved an Irish Rain Forest talk with McHugh, environmental activist and former Green Party politician, will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall, University of Galway and will discuss rewilding in Ireland and Daltun’s journey of saving a dying 73-acre wild rainforest in the Beara Peninsula.

He said road funding must be a priority for the current Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael coalition government, and condemned previous promises.

Éamon Ó Cuív lives up the Seanbhóthar behind Corr na Móna, in a small, well-sited bungalow himself and his wife, Áine, built in 1980, six years after moving to Joyce Country, where Éamon landed a job establishing an ill-fated lamb fattening station which later became a successful sawmill.

An event will be held this Saturday, March 22, at the Galway Bay Hotel to mark the contribution made by Éamon Ó Cuív to political life in Galway.

Grainne Seoige’s celebrity drew attention to the Galway West constituency last week, but it was Mairéad Farrell, Catherine Connolly and Hildegarde Naughton who stole the show.

For many reasons, last weekend marked an extraordinarily emotional milestone for Pete Roche and his family. As the results came in, securing his first-ever seat in the Dáil as a representative for Galway East, it was a moment charged with pride, tears, and a profound sense of accomplishment.