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Atlantic Technological University (ATU) has announced key appointments to its Senior Leadership Team (SLT), which will play a central role in shaping the direction of the university. This team brings together leaders with extensive experience in higher education, research and industry engagement, ensuring ATU continues to deliver high-quality education and impactful research across its nine campuses.

The fear of looking back on his life as he breathed his last and realising that he had not lived it being true to himself was one of the main reasons why Adrian Varley (33) stopped drinking. That fear was far greater than giving up alcohol, says the former Galway Senior footballer.

There is a particular kind of shock that follows violence in an open space. A beach, of all places, is meant to be without edges or barriers. It is where land gives way to the vastness of the ocean, where we stand barefoot and are reminded of how small we are in the face of nature. The beach is warmth underfoot, a salt breeze against the skin, the quiet poetry of wet sand and dry, cold water and hot sun. It is the feeling of being both here and somewhere else entirely.

THE mother of a young man accused of being involved in a phishing scam and drug dealing made an impassioned plea before Galway District Court for her son to be spared a prison sentence and allowed to return to Australia where he was doing well.

Údarás na Gaeltachta has approved a €307,350 grant for Oxygen Research Institute Ltd (ORIL) to drive significant expansion of its health and wellness operations from Moycullen, Co. Galway.

For many in Galway, Christmas morning simply is not complete without a trip to Blackrock in Salthill, where hundreds gather to brave the icy waters of Galway Bay and raise funds for COPE Galway.

To honour the music they built together over forty years, members of iconic rock band Aslan have embarked on a new chapter, following the passing of their much-loved singer, Christy Dignam.

Independent Galway West councillor Noel Thomas has today called on the Government to launch a full national review into adopting legislation similar to Australia’s newly announced ban on social media access for children under 16.

In Ireland, we usually eat Christmas dinners filled with the usual suspects of roast turkey, glazed ham, and every variety of potato, but have you ever wondered what dinners around the world look like? From Australia, celebrating in the sun, to Japan back-ordering KFC, families are brought together for the season in a variety of ways. Maybe we can add some of these traditions to our 2025 festive feasts.

A DRUGS conviction would have disastrous consequences for a young man working in the mines in Australia, his solicitor pleaded at Galway District Court.