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With the median house price in County Galway calculated to be a whopping €380,000, a first-time buyer acting alone must earn at least €85,500 per year before tax to qualify for a mortgage if savings or debt are not factors.

Seventeen candidates will contest the seat vacated by Catherine Connolly’s election to the presidency.

Cuirt Eigis in Ballybane comes alive in the summer, but the fate of 14 families living there has become a political hot potato, with local reps disagreeing on how best to assist tenants who must leave by the autumn.

One of the reasons Taoiseach Micheal Martin will visit the White House this year is to secure employment linked to medical technology companies clustered around Galway.

The plan was approved at the local party’s AGM last week, where 50 delegates from across Galway re-elected former city councillor, Mark Lohan, as its chairperson for the sixth year running.

Party leader Ivana Bacik will attend next week’s convention to select city councillor Helen Ogbu as Labour’s candidate for the 2026 Galway West by-election.

Galway Bay is widely celebrated as one of the region’s greatest natural resources, a place that belongs to everyone yet remains inaccessible to many. For Moycullen resident Kay Diviney, a member of the Gentle Swimmers group, the bay represents both liberation and limitation. Kay has Multiple Sclerosis and is a wheelchair user, yet each week she makes the journey to the water across from the Galway Bay Hotel, supported by her husband Cathal and fellow swimmers. What awaits her is a powerful form of therapy, but one that is not reliably within her reach.

The constituency of Galway West must be central to a Fianna Fáil internal double review on its disastrous presidential campaign, and how it ran last November’s general election.

News of the initiative comes as expectation in senior government circles is growing that An Bord Pleanála will initiate a second oral hearing on environmental aspects of the planning permission for the N6 City Ring Road.

The number of domestic abuse calls made in County Galway has increased from 2,656 to 2,955 in the last year — an 11.2% increase in the county.