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Galway County Councillors voted by 32 to 6 to increase Local Property Tax by 15 per cent in late September, a hike calculated to net an extra €2.4 million income per year for the local authority from 2025.

Galway city is abuzz with excitement as the highly anticipated Galway Hooker Secret Sessions series of events begin today, Thursday, July 18. This unique event, nestled in a top-secret location in the heart of the city, promises a blend of excellent brews, lively entertainment, and an unforgettable atmosphere.

Galway City Museum collect, preserve, and display the material heritage of Galway city. Ideally located beside the Spanish Arch, the museum focuses on sharing Galway’s archaeology, history and sea science through their collections, exhibitions, and events.

Enrich your Galway experience with Citysightseeing Galway. This is a 24 or 48 hour hop-on hop-off bus tour that stops near all the major Galway attractions and is the ideal way to see the City of the Tribes at your leisure.

The town of Galway was virtually an independent city state, self-contained politically and ecclesiastically, relying on its own resources as it was cut off from the central English authority until the 16th century. Then, the Tudors began to extend their influence westwards so that the city gradually came totally under their dominion. The real symbol of that growing influence was the fortifications, four in number, raised to defend this all-important location against all enemies, notably France and Spain.

This week, Galway County Council became just the second local authority in the country to launch an online pre-planning enquiry system.

Galway City Council has hired an expert consultant to coordinate business, cultural and civic society activities after the sun goes down on Galway Bay.

CÚRAM, the SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices based at University of Galway, together with Galway City Museum has launched a new public exhibition celebrating the collaboration, creativity and innovation in medical technology (medtech) research in Ireland.

Galway City Council has again achieved three prestigious Green Flag Awards, at the announcement this week by An Taisce Environmental Education Unit. The Green Flag Awards acknowledge Ireland’s best public parks and gardens, with Quincentennial Park in Salthill achieving the award for the fourth time, Children’s Millennium Park retaining the honour for a fifth year in a row and O’Sullivan Park in Mervue achieving the award for the second time.

The new civil war exhibition, ‘War of Friends, 1922-23: The Civil War story of Pádraic Ó Máille and Liam Mellows’ is now running at Galway City Museum. The exhibition was officially launched by the Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr. Clodagh Higgins. It was created by Galway City Museum as part of Galway City Council’s Decade of Centenaries Programme 2022, and funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to commemorate events of local and national significance.