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Galway's St Patrick's Day parade has become, somewhat unexpectedly, one of the things I most look forward to in the year. Some of my earliest memories are of uninspiring parades in the dreary 1980s. I swear that one year it consisted only of flat-bed trucks, with nothing on them. Before Macnas imported a theatrical approach to street performance, the parade was often more obligation than entertainment.

Coastal communities across Ireland will host screenings of the documentary Shanshula, which tells the compelling story of Palestinian fishermen and fisherwomen in Gaza, on Thursday, February 20, 2025.

Galway has been crowned the most generous county in the world for 2024, solidifying its reputation for community spirit and kindness. This distinction comes from statistics released by GoFundMe, the global crowdfunding platform, which also named Ireland the ‘most generous country in the world’ for the sixth consecutive year.

A Galway clergywoman is hanging a ‘dove of peace’ on her Christmas tree this festive season to draw attention to the humanitarian crises caused by conflicts around the world and the efforts of Christian Aid to support those most in need.

TV and Radio journalist and presenter Philip Boucher-Hayes was in Galway to launch a new book for primary and post primary teachers. Edited by Galway based academic Associate Professor Anne Dolan, Teaching the Sustainable Development Goals to Young Citizens (10-16 years) A Focus on Teaching Hope, Respect, Empathy and Advocacy in Schools is a key resource for teachers at a time of war, environmental crisis, migration and human rights abuses.

“You’re a true believer, right?”

A show of solidarity to the people of Palestine was a key motion at Galway County Council's October plenary meeting this week, with councillors unanimously passing a motion calling on the Government to enact the Occupied Territories Bill.

Women in technology, beasts and ‘general mayhem’ will be the three themes of this year’s Galway Carton Festival, set to run for six days from October 4.

Take your average nine-year-old now. Born in 2015. Five years before Covid...years before Ukraine, before Gaza and Israel, they have exprienced a change in the way the world has been.