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A special gig for a special Galway girl will be hosted at JF Murphy’s Bar in Athenry on Saturday, August 22, from 3pm until late.

The Tuam rockers plus special guests make their long-awaited return to Mayo for their first show in the county for more than a decade, live at the TF Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Saturday, September 5.

Headford & District Association continues its Creative Communities programme with a free gel plate printing workshop led by local artist Sharon Wynne.

When there is nowhere to live because all the houses are let to visiting tourists, a group of activists decided to turn this situation into a tourist attraction itself.

Galway City Councillor Niall McNelis has welcomed the Government’s new national framework for regulating short-term holiday lets.

Alexandria Wilson, aged 18, from Abbeyknockmoy, Sadhbh Mechan, aged 19, from Portumna, and Nicole Hargaden, aged 21, from Galway city have been selected for the Irish Youth Choir for 18- to 25-year-olds.

The Galway branch of the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) took action this week to highlight the effect short-term lets are having on the community.

The history of the 14 Tribes of Galway is the subject of an event taking place in Galway this weekend.

There is something quietly absurd happening in Irish accommodation right now. Across the west of Ireland, residential properties are hosting tourists on Airbnb while hotel beds in regional towns are occupied by long-term residential placements, including emergency and refugee accommodation. Houses built for families are full of visitors. Hotels built for visitors are, in many cases, no longer available to them. We have inverted the entire logic of how accommodation is supposed to work.

It seems tourists have the high ground in Galway while the residents are Anekin Skywalker. In a study by the Galway Advertiser, one-third of shops in the main shopping district are geared towards tourists.