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The 2026 Galway Folk Festival will include more than 80 acts over five days in 11 venues across the city, from June 3.

Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the GPO in Dublin on Easter Monday that year – an event that began events leading to our partial independence in the 26 counties a short time later.

This Easter will mark the 110th year since the Easter Rising of 1916.

President Catherine Connolly this week launched Curachaí na Life, an innovative community currach-rowing project that blends centuries-old Irish maritime heritage with a new vision for the River Liffey. The project is based at HQ2O Watersports, operated by Swan Leisure at the Docklands Municipal Watersports Centre.

This Easter will mark the 110th year since the Easter Rising of 1916. Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the GPO in Dublin on Easter Monday that year – an event that began events leading to our partial independence in the 26 counties a short time later.

Award-winning food writer and TV presenter Donal Skehan has returned as Ambassador for the 18th Annual Great Irish Bake for Sick Children, calling on people across Galway to roll up their sleeves and help raise vital funds for sick children in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals and urgent care centres.

A chairde uaisle, a phobal na hÉireann; sibhse atá anseo sa mbaile; sibhse atá thar lear ag cur fuíbh ar fud an domhain; sibhse atá tagtha go dtí’n tír seo chun obair, cónaí agus cabhrú linn mar thír; agus sibhse ar bhreá libh a bheith in Éirinn; cuirim Beannachtaí na Nollag ó chroí chugaibh uilig.

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.

Ireland’s housing situation is at breaking point, and in Galway City, there is a significant shortage of available properties, and ever fewer that are attainable. Like many parts of the country, the housing market in Galway is very challenging, and escalating rent prices are placing considerable financial pressure on tenants. Young professionals, whether looking to buy on their own or with a partner, are hitting brick walls that they just can’t seem to break down, and the situation seems to be getting worse, rather than better.

Two of Galway’s most famous boxers, world title challenger Sean Mannion and Olympian Francie Barrett, feature in a new book entitled Fight of My Life, now available on Amazon.