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Labour Councillor Helen Ogbu has called on Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to urgently support and protect remote work opportunities for workers in Galway, following new CSO figures which show a significant drop in the number of people working from home across Ireland in the past year and a sharp increase in those now forced to return to daily commutes.

The Salthill Hotel will play host to a vibrant morning of connection, conversation, and networking as Galway businesswomen come together to mark International Women’s Day on Friday, March 6.

The Galway Warm Home Hub closure is a major loss to local communities seeking advice on Greener homes, and a blow to Galway City Council’s Decarbonisation Plan, which is supposed to run to 2030, according to Fianna Fáil Galway West TD John Connolly.

Sheila Garrity, convener of the Galway branch of the 2025 Connolly Presidential Campaign, intends to retain the seat vacated by the former Claddagh-based TD’s election to the Áras in November.

President Catherine Connolly has signed the oath of the President at a ceremony in Dublin Castle, officially becoming the 10th President of Ireland.

Ten of the 11 candidates seeking a nomination to stand for the presidential election, will be in Galway tomorrow to address a special meeting of the Galway City Council, which takes place in City Hall at 2pm.

Uachtarán na hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, has "represented Ireland brilliantly abroad", and in his values, ideals, and vision, is what is needed now at home and abroad, during this era of political turmoil and the rise of far-right populism on the continent.

A Cork-based freelance journalist has apologised for mistakingly describing Irish President Michael D Higgins as an “acknowledged homosexual” in an article written for US business magazine, Forbes.

On October 20 former president Mary McAleese and Senator Martin McAleese will join past pupils and friends of the Edmund Rice/Christian Brothers schools in the Convention Centre Dublin for an evening of music, film, and keynote addresses, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Edmund Rice, and outlining a vision for the continuation of his work in the years to come.

Allegations of attempted murder, family rows, child abuse, age of consent, dodgy dealing with envelopes, confrontations with sons of murdered gardai, internal party bickering, quango queens, televised meltdowns, sibling savagery, bloody hands, political assassinations — it has been one hell of a presidential election campaign which comes to an end this evening when the last votes are cast and the doors on the polling station close at 10pm. Every element of the campaign so far would not be out of place on The Jerry Springer Show. Shows such as Springer’s specialise in gathering people bound by some connection in one place and then watching them disintegrate in front of a televised audience. It is the principle behind Big Brother, The Apprentice, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.