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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’.

A seachrán can be a wandering vagabond, a clever rogue, maybe astray in the head as well as abroad, and the play that made the word infamous in nineteenth century America returns to Galway this summer, for the first time since 1982.

Tickets are now on sale for a staging of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten in Galway this autumn, as part of Druid’s ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’ theatre theme for 2026.

The upcoming opening of Quantum Polyclinic represents a major step forward for healthcare in Galway, particularly for communities across the west of the city including Knocknacarra, Barna, and Salthill. This state-of-the-art, consultant-led facility brings advanced diagnostics and expert clinical care together in a modern, accessible, community-based setting.

All winter long in my childhood, our three lake boats lay like part of the furniture of the yard — upturned shapes against the shed wall, collecting frost and leaves, holding their silence. They were parts of our livelihood in those lean mean seventies, though as children we thought of them as playthings. From October to February they hibernated, dripping dry after months of wave and rain, their floorboards stacked indoors nearby, their oars resting like folded arms. I often imagined them talking to one another in the dark — trading stories of sudden squalls, of rocks struck in shallow bays, of whispered confidences between gillie and angler, of trout that flashed silver in the half-light before lying still on the ribs beneath the boards.

TDs and senators in Galway have joined an Oireachtas heart and stroke group to back urgent calls for a new national cardiovascular disease (CVD) health policy.

Jimmy Duggan who passed away this week at the age of 93, was once described as “the best pound-for-pound hurler in Ireland.”

If you haven't quite gotten your fill of festive films yet, Pálás Cinema's Naughty or Nice Christmas season continues throughout December with a whole host of classics from Christmas in Connecticut to Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, and even a Die Hard (yes it's a Christmas film!), Nakatomi Plaza Party on Saturday night (December 17).

We can't say it is Christmas time until we are cheering on Kevin McCallister’s New York hijinks in Home Alone 2, getting lost watching Jimmy Stewart running around Bedford Falls in It's A Wonderful Life or witnessing John McClane singlehandedly taking on Hans Gruber in Die Hard.