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A framed drum head signed by Phil Collins, famous English musician, has raised €3,032.35 for the Sunflower Children’s Hospice, Ireland’s first children’s hospice on the Western Seaboard.

Thirteen years after Galway City Council lent a piece of parkland to the HSE for six months, next week councillors will be asked to sell almost four acres of that park for an air ambulance base to serve the west of Ireland.

Gardaí are monitoring online death threats against the Mayor of Galway while a number of city institutions have disabled social media comments on posts referencing Helen Ogbu.

This week saw the first of 29 tourist groups visit Galway to view Survivor Stories: Tuam and Ireland’s Institutional Past, an installation focusing on the stories of survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. The installation, the first of its kind in Ireland, opened to the public last week.

Some sporting victories end when the final whistle blows. Others continue long after the players have left the field. They travel home on buses and trains, into pubs and kitchens, across streets decorated with flags and into the memories of those who witnessed them.

Galway and Clifden RNLI volunteers were in Croke Park ahead of Saturday’s All-Ireland senior hurling championship semi-final between Galway and Cork — bringing good luck to the Tribesmen ahead of their victory.

Essex-based cyclist Aidan Spence will be travelling through County Galway as part of a 2,200-mile journey around Ireland celebrating the historic links between Ireland and Essex while raising funds for Irish community organisations in Britain.

No doubt with a nod to the USA’s 250th birthday last week, Druid Theatre’s 2026 season is called ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’.

Ireland West Airport welcomed Minister for Transport and Climate, Energy and the Environment, Darragh O’Brien TD, to the airport to officially open the new Fire Training Centre at Ireland West Airport.

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.