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Galway City Council has invited representatives of the Galway Culture Company to attend a full council meeting to explain its activities to councillors since Galway won the European city of Culture competition in 2020.

While Galway is always welcoming recognition on a global scale, it has made a world list that may not be to our liking.

MEP Ciaran Mullooly has welcomed proposed changes to Credit Union lending rules as a “game-changer” for addressing Ireland’s housing crisis and boosting local communities.

Ahascragh Distillery have been announced as the winners of the Greener Planet award at The Foodies 2024. The European awards celebrate small and medium sized food and drink enterprises (SMEs) that go the extra mile to incorporate sustainability into their business.

This week Kylemore Abbey saw the Blessing of its twentieth Abbess, Mother Karol O’Connell OSB.

At a meeting of representatives from the Seafood Ireland alliance in Brussels on Tuesday, Maria Walsh, MEP for Midlands-North-West called for a new Minister of State to focus on fisheries. Fine Gael MEP Walsh expressed her view that the current situation “is not working” and the fishing industry is facing a “slow and painful death”.

Charging hotel guests across the city a one Euro per night tourism tax could net an estimated extra €2 million per year for the city’s finances.

University of Galway yesterday announced the recipients of Honorary Degrees at the 2024 Autumn Conferring ceremonies. The Honorary Degree recipients will join over 1,800 graduands, at events running from Thursday August 22 to Tuesday August 27.

The Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA) has welcomed the designation of Ireland’s Northern and Western region as a Regional Innovation Valley (RIV) under the European Commission’s New European Innovation Agenda initiative.

Having served five years as an MEP, Maria Walsh has said that she is standing for reelection to the European Parliament as the candidate with the experience needed to get things done in Brussels.