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The Galway-based company, which is due to tour North America this winter, says it wants to provide professional opportunities for writers, and women working as theatre artists on the island of Ireland, through its New Writing open call and its Marie Mullen Bursary.

The Galway civic sword and mace are among the finest specimens of municipal corporation insignia in Ireland; the sword in particular is noteworthy and can be compared with the best of civic swords in these islands.

Ray McBride, Galway city-born, was a multitude: dancer, singer, actor, writer, runner. And also a “forever friend” to sports journalist Frank Greally.

For eight years, Finn Plotner McCarthy has been a familiar face on the pitches at Galway Bohemians, growing from an enthusiastic 10-year-old into one of the club’s standout young players. Now, at the age of 18, that journey is taking an exciting new direction as he prepares to move to America on a college scholarship.

No doubt with a nod to the USA’s 250th birthday last week, Druid Theatre’s 2026 season is called ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’.

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.

The 2026 festival will showcase 35 new Irish films, major world premieres, international guests and over 130 short films from Thursday, July 7, to July 12.

Galway City Museum has just announced Museum Lates, a series of late opening hours and free events running at the museum from June 25 until the end of the year.

The guitar player who has toured America since the 1970s began performing in Galway, aged 16, with bands Spoonful, Skull, Life’s Feast and Rock and Roll Circus.

Singer-songwriter Seamus Kelleher will be home from Texas this week to perform at the Quays Bar this Saturday, June 13, at 9.30pm.