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Galway consumers are fuelling a growing ‘fast tech’ trend with small, often low-cost electronic gadgets frequently discarded after very little use, a new survey conducted for International E-waste Day this week has revealed.

The city’s Mayor has collected enough signatures to schedule an emergency session of Galway city council, while calls are growing for a separate, public meeting to discuss rebranding the local authority.

Portumna Castle will host a talk on the woman who erected Ireland's greatest manor house of the early seventeenth century, on Sunday, May 24, at 4pm.

Galway actress Nicola Coughlan is emerging as a top contender to star in a major new film about Ireland’s legendary pirate queen, Gráinne Ní Mháille, a project already being hailed as one of the most ambitious Irish productions in years.

Students at Bearna Primary School and Colaiste Mhuire in Ballygar have been crowned Battery Recycling Champions after collecting the equivalent of 50,050 and 11,700 used AA batteries, respectively, for recycling during the last school year.

Michael Grealish served his apprenticeship (it cost him 100 guineas) in Garret’s Saddlery in Eyre Square, roughly where the Imperial Hotel is today. When he finished, he decided to set up his own saddlery business at the beginning of the last century at Number 2, Eyre Square. At the time, the horse reigned supreme. There were regular horse fairs in Eyre Square at the time and this obviously helped his start-up.

Seventy per cent of electronic devices are not being recycled or returned to the circular economy across Galway, new data reveals.

The Galway resident who was believed to be the oldest person in Ireland has died this week just 81 days after celebrating her 109th birthday.

Two artists have been selected for the 2024 Thoor Ballylee artists in residence programme.

The Dominican Order was formally approved by Pope Honorius III in 1216, “to witness to the truth of the Christian Faith and to proclaim it at home and abroad”. St Dominic died in 1216, and in 1224 the Dominicans first came to Ireland. They came to Connacht, to Athenry, in 1241, and they finally arrived in Galway in 1488.