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The city’s Mayor has collected enough signatures to schedule an emergency session of Galway city council, while calls are growing for a separate, public meeting to discuss rebranding the local authority.

Galway will welcome senior European policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies this autumn as it hosts a flagship conference examining the future of regional competitiveness, innovation and sustainable economic growth across Europe.

Galway Public Libraries is honoured to announce the donation of the Peadar O’Dowd Collection, comprising 110 original drawings of archaeological and historical monuments and sites from Galway city and county, together with sketchbooks, notebooks and related material documenting decades of heritage research and interpretation.

A motion supporting Galway Commuter Coalition’s proposal to create a bus corridor on the Salmon Weir Bridge was passed unanimously by the Project Development Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) of Galway City Council, following a presentation made by two members of the Coalition.

Galway City Council has unveiled An Gairdín Síorghrá, The Garden of Eternal Love, a new memorial garden at Quincentennial Park, Salthill, dedicated to supporting families who have experienced pregnancy loss, infant loss, and baby loss.

The Mayor of the City of Galway has formally demanded the city’s ancient coat of arms be included in any rebranding of the city council.

There are few things more reliably capable of starting an argument in Galway than traffic, parking, buses, planning — and, apparently, the letter G.

William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to bring his coffin back to Ireland for several years.

Building on the massive success of its inaugural year, Galway City Council is proud to announce the return of ‘Gaillimh Ah-Boo!’—an expanded, city-wide Halloween celebration reclaiming the ancient Celtic origins of Samhain through myth, magic, and community.

Sleep Out for Simon 2026 has officially launched, bringing together community and business leaders, supporters, partners and advocates to stand with people facing homelessness across Galway, Mayo and Roscommon.