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Galway will play host to a wide variety of events during Heritage Week, which runs from August 15 to 23.

University of Galway Students’ Union is opening the application process for charities wishing to be considered as beneficiaries for its 2026/27 fundraising campaign.

The Government must tackle teacher shortages in Ireland by making teaching a sustainable career choice for young people, new ASTI President Richie Bell said this week.

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) is appealing to homeowners in Galway to consider offering a spare room in their home to a student for the upcoming academic year, under the national Rent-a-Room scheme.

When there is nowhere to live because all the houses are let to visiting tourists, a group of activists decided to turn this situation into a tourist attraction itself.

Responding to positive comments from her colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, local TD and Minister for Education, Hildegarde Naughton, has indicated that she will ensure that the Galway Ring Road be designated as critical infrastructure under the Critical Infrastructure Act in the coming months. Minister Chambers indicated at the weekend that he would expect the ring road to be included in the list of critical infrastructure projects.

Taking a walk out to Mutton Island last week, the Claddagh resident said she was reminded of the summer’s imminent festival season when a fellow on an an eight-foot-high penny farthing cycled past “and nobody noticed.”

President Catherine Connolly will make a keynote address on the importance of the arts as a medium to speak truth to power at the opening of the 2026 Galway International Arts Festival next week.

Documentary The SU will have its world premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh this Sunday, July 12, at 3pm, in the Town Hall Theatre.

Galway City Council’s award-winning Climate Inspirations Festival has been hailed a major success following five days of talks, music, workshops, exhibitions, and community events across Galway City.