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Natalie Roache made a name for herself on the global club circuit with residencies at celebrated venues including Pacha London, Ministry of Sound, Eden Ibiza, Hush Ibiza, and Kanya Ibiza, as well as the globally recognised Summerized Sessions events across London and Ibiza. Her international career has also taken her across luxury resorts and venues in the Middle East, the Swiss Alps, Mauritius, the Maldives, and Ibiza.

A special fight night to celebrate kickboxing in Galway takes place on Saturday, March 28 in the Ardilaun Hotel.

The Galway office market is currently experiencing a period of transformation, driven as much by sustainability requirements as by traditional occupier demand. Average rental rates for good quality or secondary office space sit in the mid to high €20s per sq.?ft., with secondary A-rated stock typically quoting €28 to €32 per sq.?ft. By contrast, newly developed, high-specification city centre buildings are commanding approximately €40 per sq.?ft. for large floorplates, by Galway standards.

The commercial market across Galway city and the West of Ireland has proven resilient throughout 2025 and into 2026. While certain markets may have stalled due to the ongoing political unrest within the Middle East, both the investment and development land markets have persevered.

The Galway Residential Market in 2025 experienced another active year of healthy sales, characterised by strong demand and weak supply. The number of second-hand residential properties that came to the market in 2025 had fallen by approximately 10 per cent on 2024, which in itself was a year of very tight supply. Tony Kavanagh commented, “This has resulted in creating a very competitive marketplace for potential buyers, often resulting in properties attracting multiple bidders and continuing capital price growth in the order of 8.2 per cent for 2025 in Galway.”

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) need to quickly look into and establish if there is price gouging or price fixing across the Irish fuel market as a result of the conflict in the Middle East, Fine Gael Senator Sean Kyne has said.

World affairs are often described as a procession of turning points—moments when history bends, decisively, in a new direction. Yet they are rarely announced as such at the time. They arrive disguised as chaos, outrage, or exhaustion.

Celebrating the theme of ‘Making Irish Stories’, Showcase will return to the RDS, Dublin from Sunday, January 18 to Tuesday, January 20 with 18 Galway makers among this year’s exhibitors.

Omid Djalili, Jack Dee, Dylan Moran, and Rich Hall are some of the biggest and best-known names in stand-up, and these four are not to be missed at Galway Comedy Festival 2025.

History rarely repeats itself in the same form, but it has an unnerving way of rhyming. When we look at the events unfolding across the globe — from drone strikes in Poland to devastation in the Middle East — there’s a growing sense that we are, once again, sleepwalking into the kind of global crisis we swore we would never repeat. And this time, the consequences could be even more far-reaching.