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This Easter will mark the 110th year since the Easter Rising of 1916. Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the GPO in Dublin on Easter Monday that year – an event that began events leading to our partial independence in the 26 counties a short time later.

As we approach International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8, it’s the perfect time to celebrate the women who make Galway great.

In correspondence seen by the Advertiser, the university’s Executive Dean, Professor Rebecca Braun, wrote a strongly worded email to all departmental heads this week, complaining that a confidential document circulated with college members last Tuesday “was passed to the Irish Times with near immediate effect last week”.

Michael D is back home, and he’s not holding back.

A private meeting of potential election candidates was held in Galway city last week to hammer out a potential voting alliance in May’s Galway West by-election.

Galway’s Fiona Murtagh received her Sportswoman of the Month award for June at The Irish Times Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year awards recently.

In her first major gig since selling out the Galway International Arts Festival’s Big Top this summer, legendary jazz and blues singer, Mary Coughlan, plays the Black Box Theatre, next Friday, December 19.

Some of the country's most prolific podcasts, like Keep It Tight, How To Gael, The Creep Dive and Eejits of the World, will record live in venues around the city during this year's Galway Comedy Festival.

Galway audiences will have the opportunity to hear the Polish-born artist’s hotly anticipated new work ahead of its official release. It will not be available on streaming platforms until early November.

The 9th Galway Cartoon Festival returns from Friday, October 3 to Wednesday, October 8 2025, with a line-up featuring Palestinian artist Malak Mattar, comic book artist Gilbert Shelton, creator of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and political cartoonists Jeff Danzinger and Belfast’s Ian Knox.