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Following Music for Galway’s survey of the works of Gabriel Fauré in January 2024, another French composer comes under the spotlight at the 22nd Midwinter Festival from 17 th to 19th January 2025, this time the exquisitely inventive Maurice Ravel. Born 150 years ago to a Swiss engineer father and a Basque mother, Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer in the 1920s and 1930s.

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It was a cathartic night in Tralee on Friday. After years of disappointments, Galway United, having taken the first division by storm, sealed the title with a 4-0 win over Kerry FC.

Misleor, which starts on Thursday September 29, is a truly special event, and the only festival in Ireland that celebrates and connects nomadic cultures from around the world. The three-day festival includes a vibrant programme of music, theatre, film, poetry, and visual art from Traveller, Roma, Sa?mi, Mongolian and Romany Gypsy communities.

This year Thoor Ballylee, the Galway home of poet laureate WB Yeats, will come alive for a ‘Wild Child’ celebration on August 18 for National Heritage Week.

This is a chocolate cake taking inspiration from Nigella Lawson‘s very pretty site. While I have most of her books, I hardly ever seem to cook from them any more, I don’t really know why that is. Tessa Kiros and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall seem to have much more robust recipes that do not need as much exact temperature control for good results. I am slowly coming to grips with my range cooker where the cooking is more intuitive than an exact science, but ’twas a chocolate cake I was after, so I gave this recipe an auld whirl.

SALT bar and restaurant in Galway’s most famous seaside village has opened its doors. Located at 163 Salthill, SALT brings a stylish and bohemian feel to one of Ireland’s most popular coastal destinations.

A celebration of dog ownership will be held at Brigit's Garden in Rosscahill, Co Galway, on Sunday September 13 from 1pm to 4pm.

Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber’s 60th birthday gala at London’s Royal Festival Hall earlier this year was, in his words, a celebration of the “beautiful, temperamental instrument” that dominates his life. Now Julian brings the instrument - the Barjansky Stradivarius cello, dated 1690 - which famously gets its own seat on airplanes - on his Irish tour, Travels With My Cello: An Evening with Julian Lloyd Webber. The tour begins at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Wednesday, November 2, at 8pm.