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A Galway conference will examine how employee ownership can help build stronger local businesses, create secure employment and ensure wealth is shared more fairly, drawing on the experience of one of the world’s largest worker-owned cooperatives in Spain.

City Hall on College Road will be demolished after Galway City Council completes its move to Crown Square next year.

There are few Irish construction stories that capture the changing face of the country’s built environment quite like that of JJ Rhatigan & Company. What began in Galway in 1952 as a local contracting business has, over more than seven decades, developed into a major Tier 1 construction company working across Ireland and the UK.

City Hall unveiled a new logo today, the first redesign in decades since its current ‘G’ - paired with the city’s sixteenth century coat of arms - was designed in 1984 for the city’s 500th anniversary, and refreshed in a 2007 rebranding.

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.

Galway City Council has announced that the tender for the Fit-Out of the new civic offices at Crown Square, Mervue, has been awarded to Flynn Management and Contractors, following a tender process in Q4 2025.

Galway City Council has appointed Dublin-based Flynn Management and Contractors for a €17 million fit-out of its new headquarters at Crown Square.

For a long time, Galway has been a city that felt familiar in its bones. Not static, exactly, but slow to shift. Buildings came and went, shopfronts changed, cranes appeared and disappeared, yet the essential shape of the place remained stubbornly recognisable. If a group of lads from Mars had landed here sometime in the 1980s and popped back for a visit today, they’d still know where they were. The river still led them to the bay, the city still folded in on itself, and the skyline rarely surprised.

Galway City Council has delayed its move to new headquarters at Crown Square until March 2027 at the latest.

There was something deeply reflective about the ceremony held last week to honour two remarkable figures — my former colleague Ronnie O’Gorman and former County Council manager C.I. O’Flynn. It was a gathering that looked back with gratitude and forward with curiosity, a moment to pause in a city that rarely stands still.