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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.

In the 1940s the seeds of great social change were sown in Ireland; Irish society began to “feel the full force of the cold blast of social change”. In 1940s Ireland, the State gave no assistance to the out-of-school education of young people. The need to provide social and recreational activities for young people was enormous. The Jesuit Community responded to this need by setting up Our Lady’s Boys Club in 1941, which began to provide organised recreational activities to the youth of Shantalla, Bohermore, Claddagh and ‘the West’.

After 40 years working for RTÉ, most famously as regional news reporter for the west of Ireland since 2007, Mannion is set to retire in six weeks.

There was hardly a dry eye among councillors in the chamber after Mayor Helen Ogbu was finished with them.

President Catherine Connolly quietly attended the inaugural Siúlóid Sióchána – Steps for Peace initiative which aims to gather like-minded people on the first Sunday of each month, at 11.30, to walk from Nimmo’s Pier to Blackrock, in Salthill, via South Park and The Prom.

President Catherine Connolly said she has a responsibility to “always speak truth to power” as she accepted the Freedom of Galway City last Friday, while using her address to defend Irish neutrality and warn against the normalisation of war.

Connemara councillor Tomás Ó Curraoin has responded with searing criticism to the announcement that Britain’s King Charles will visit Ireland next year.

Former president Michael D Higgins has strongly criticised the University of Galway for its collaboration with an Israeli university that allegedly maintains close ties to defence contractors contributing to the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Among the six candidates in the ‘Vote Left, Transfer Left’ alliance, Councillor Helen Ogbu emerged as the strongest performer from last week’s by-election.

There was a palpable sense of pride, celebration and renewal in Galway as Gaillimh le Gaeilge hosted the 2026 Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh awards, an evening that not only honoured excellence in bilingual enterprise but crowned a new cultural force within the city. In front of more than 100 guests, Just Art It was announced as the overall winner of Gradam 2026 and bestowed with the symbolic title of the 15th Tribe of Galway — a distinction that firmly places the creative collective at the heart of the city’s evolving identity.