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Solutions to air pollution in Galway City are being explored as part of an innovative project combining art, community education and citizen action.

BY Declan Varley

GALWAY AND Brittany, two regions with shared landscapes, cultures, and histories will celebrate their links with a series of online events this weekend.

The Architecture at the Edge Festival will take place in Galway and Mayo this weekend. The festival, designed to help citizens understand the many ways architecture impacts our lives, will feature a weekend of online lectures, interviews, exhibitions, and panel discussions - all live and all free.

NUI Galway’s Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies (C-CAPS) has launched a new app to provide real-time forecasting data on atmospheric composition. The app, called StreamAIR, will shine a light on the key drivers of climate change and air pollution and build on its internationally recognised Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station.

Galway musicians Éimhín Cradock and Rickie O’Neill have been named as the Drum Chiefs for the Galway 2020 opening ceremony, which will take place in Galway city and across the county in the first week of February.

The Shantalla Residents Association is proud to announce the launch of the first Shantalla Festival Weekend, incorporating the traditional five-a-side tournament held annually in the Sliding Rock Park.

Over the last few days, emergency services continue to battle the blazing gorse fire in the Cloosh Valley, Connemara area of County Galway. Apart from the obvious devastating effect on wildlife and the damage to tree crops, the forest fires are causing a major air pollution episode in the area. In recent days, the wind diverted the pollution plume away from the most populated areas, however, at around 4pm on Tuesday evening, a change in wind direction engulfed the city in smoke pollution for a few hours.

NOEL HILL and Steve Cooney, Kíla, and Mary Bergin are some of the Irish music heavy hitters playing the upcoming Traidphicnic, open-air, traditional Irish music, arts, and culture festival, in An Spidéal.