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Galway City Council paid the county €7.3 million last year for shared fire, library, civil defence, coronial, water safety and other services, but it was landed with a much heftier demand last week.

Uncollected litter and cheerful schoolchildren enjoying a surprise day-off swirled through Galway’s windblown city centre on Wednesday, as the country braced for its first major, public sector strike in two decades.

One of two men accused of raping and falsely imprisoning a woman at Ceannt Station on August 1 last, is now also accused of a separate charge of stealing a bag and items to the value of €450 from a city centre bar.

After months of careful curation, talent scouting and cajoling, organisers of the Galway Comedy Festival are going for a well-earned pint and a chuckle tomorrow, Friday, September 11, in Mary Mullen’s Bar, at 6.30pm, to show off their 2026 line-up to a select few, before its publication next week.

Galway County Council has invited members of the public to attend “Tracing Your Galway Roots: Discover Your Family History”, a free Heritage Week event taking place on Wednesday, August 19 from 12.00pm to 3.30pm in the Council Chamber, Áras an Chontae, Prospect Hill, Galway.

Counter protestors outnumbered anti-migrant agitators ten-to-one in Galway last weekend, at an event organised to “reject” Helen Ogbu as the city’s elected mayor.

The Cathaoirleach of Galway County Council, Cllr David Collins, has announced details of this year’s Cathaoirleach’s Ball, which will take place on Sunday, May 31 at the Raheen Woods Hotel in Athenry.

Nicholas Arthur Colohan was born in Enniskillen on August 12th 1884 to Nicholas Whistler and Lizzie Colohan. The family moved to The Villa opposite the Crescent in Galway. He may have been tutored at home as his family were reasonably wealthy. There are no records of him attending either the Presentation or the Jesuit primary schools. The earliest record of him in education relates to his first year in secondary education in the Bish. As a pupil, he was far from impressive and this prompted his parents to send him to Mungret College Limerick as a boarder and there he finished his secondary education.

People Before Profit’s candidate in the Galway West by-election says he supported the blockade by protesters of Galway Port last week.

Duffy auctioneers in association with Mullery auctioneers presents to market a c25 farm and cottage at Ballyfruit, Headford.