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This is the demand of Galway city councillor Níall McNelis (Lab) who has welcomed the Government’s decision in Budget 2026 to make the State’s pilot Basic Income for Artists (BIA) scheme permanent this month, but warned that serious questions remain unanswered about how it will operate.

Seán Canney TD, Minister of State for International and Road Transport, Logistics, Rail and ports and Leader in Cabinet of the Independent Ministers, has welcomed the allocation of €45,000 in grant funding to Amicitia Health & Social Care, Athenry, under the Circular Economy Innovation Grant Scheme (CEIGS).

We have had very pleasant, dry weather in Galway while the east of the country suffered under a deluge. It does give us pause for thought about whether Galway is ready for the inevitable increased rainfall.

Six Galway tourism businesses have been recognised at the CIÉ Tours Annual Awards of Excellence.

Senator Seán Kyne and Councillor Eddie Hoare are expected to go head-to-head at a Fine Gael by-election selection convention later this month.

Two decades of frustration have led the Board of Management, staff, parents and school community of St. Joseph’s Patrician College (The Bish) to express their disappointment at the news that the long-awaited new 1,000 student school campus in Dangan has not been included on the Department of Education and Youth’s list of projects prioritised to proceed to construction in 2026 and 2027.

The body set up to implement Galway’s winning 2020 European City of Culture bid, and its legacy, was unsuccessfully invited to attend Galway City Council three times last year, to explain its recent activities.

Local TD and Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegarde Naughton TD, yesterday approved a significant tranche of new school projects for Galway and substantial extensions to existing Galway schools.

More than €330,000 in funding has been announced for a range of conservation projects on heritage buildings in Galway. 

A long-anticipated report into congestion across Irish cities has been circulated several months after its publication, and its findings for Galway city are damning.