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Mayor Mike Cubbard has welcomed the use of the city's idle Pálás Cinema for the annual Galway Comedy Festival later this month, which will include a strong Irish language element for its 2025 edition.

Imagine such seasoned comedy pros as Jack Dee, Dylan Moran, and Omid Djalili, and fast-rising stars like Aoife Dunne and Rachel Galvo all in one city during the same week?

Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Middle Street has six rooms teeming rooms with more than 150,000 books, which will surely satisfy all your Christmas book-shopping needs.

Galway Comedy Festival is Ireland’s largest comedy extravaganza with 78 shows, across 19 venues, over seven days in Ireland’s festival city. There is a lot to choose from - a lot you want to go and see.

Expect the best Irish and international comedy, including Russell Howard, Deirdre O’Kane, Dara Ó Briain, Dylan Moran, Michelle Wolf, Des Bishop and many more.

The Galway Comedy Festival has revealed an ambitious line-up for its latest bout of autumnal amusement from October 22, to October 28, and this year it will break out of the city to what lies beyond.

Galway Comedy Festival announced ambitions to become a world-leading laughathon when launching its full 2023 programme this week.

Bríd Ní Chonghóile is a native of Ceathrú na gCloch in the Mayo Gaeltacht. She is CEO of Gaillimh Le Gaeilge, the body which promotes Galway as a bilingual city. Bríd drives a Dacia Sandreo Stepway.

Bríd Ní Chonghóile is a native of Ceathrú na gCloch in the Mayo Gaeltacht. She is CEO of Gaillimh Le Gaeilge, the body which promotes Galway as a bilingual city. Bríd drives a Dacia Sandreo Stepway.

Mary Coughlan was listening to the radio when she heard Anne O'Rourke, founder of TIAFI, an organisation dedicated to helping vulnerable women and children across Turkey and Syria. "I heard Anne on the news a week after the earthquake. She is from Waterford, and she has been living and working in a refugee camp on the Turkish Syrian border for years. Following the earthquake, she had an influx of about 26,000 people looking for help, some of whom had lost every member of their family.