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Galway County Council has launched a completely redesigned bilingual website aimed at delivering faster, clearer, and more accessible information to residents, businesses, and visitors.

They will be joined by Yvonne Fahy, Eimear Coughlan and other special guests, for a celebration of music rooted in heritage, community, and tradition.

Local government in Ireland plays a central role in shaping communities, and Galway County Council is no exception. With 39 elected councillors, the council makes decisions on housing, roads, planning, environmental services, and community development.

One of the most enduring and distinctive figures in British folk rock, Richard Thompson, will perform at Monroe’s on Sunday, July 27, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Esri Ireland, the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), has announced that Galway County Council has digitally mapped over 25,000 memorials, monuments, and gravestones using Esri’s ArcGIS system.

Bernie Glynn, from Ballylee, Co Galway, received a kidney from a deceased donor 45 years ago. She has put her name to the Irish Kidney Association’s drive to increase posthumous organ donation.

The town of Galway was virtually an independent city state, self-contained politically and ecclesiastically, relying on its own resources as it was cut off from the central English authority until the 16th century. Then, the Tudors began to extend their influence westwards so that the city gradually came totally under their dominion. The real symbol of that growing influence was the fortifications, four in number, raised to defend this all-important location against all enemies, notably France and Spain.

Over the last few months, creative Artist Mairead Brennan has been busy filling the aquarium with some new fantastic marine murals, and updating some of the pieces which have been in the aquarium since 1999.

Professor Michael O’Flaherty will begin his six year, non-renewable term as the Commissioner for Human Rights on April 1, 2024.