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Odds on Galway troubadour Dove Ellis scooping a prize at Thursday night’s prestigious 2026 Mercury Music awards have been halved after he was selected to play on stage for the televised ceremony.

A Monster Table Quiz takes place in Tom Sheridan’s Bar and Restaurant in Knocknacarra next Thursday October 22 starting at 8pm. The quiz is being organised by Ciaran Delaney and Sean O Leidhin.

The housing crisis persists, and homelessness is up in Galway and nationally. Tens of thousands of uncounted, hidden homeless - couch surfers and over-occupied households - remain precipitously close to sleeping rough. As autumn winds strip leaves from trees, the tented shanty towns at the edges of the city’s parks and wastelands hove into view. To gain an insight, the Galway Advertiser slept rough last week, tagging along with the Simon Community’s industrious fundraisers, service users, SimonSoc university group and a chilly mayor of Galway sleeping outside for her very first time.

Caoga bliain ó shin i 1976, eagraíodh Oireachtas na Gaeilge i gCois Fharraige den chéad uair. Cuireadh tús le himeachtaí, Dé hAoine, 27ú Lúnasa agus bhí imeachtaí ar bun chuile lá den tseachtain idir sin agus nuair a cuireadh clabhsúr leis an bhféile le ceolchoirm agus céilí sa bPoitín Stil, Dé Sathairn, 4ú Meán Fómhair.

Má bhíonn mearbhall ort riamh agus tú ag roghnú leabhar Gaeilge sa siopa nó sa leabharlann, tá moladh agam duit. Is maith an treoraí iad na lógónna beaga ciorclacha a bhíonn le feiceáil ar chuid de na leabhair a thugann le fios go raibh an leabhar sin ainmnithe do, nó gur bhuaigh sé, Gradam Foilsitheoireachta an Oireachtais.

With only a few days to go to the start of Galway race week, now is an opportune time to look at the recent history of the week’s two major races, to help us identify horses who fit the profile of likely winners.

The Galway Vindicator of November 24, 1863 reported that “The completion of the Grattan Road will add much to the beauty and salubrity of the handsomest of our suburban districts. The embankment being made by Miss Grattan will reclaim 28 acres of land which is now a swamp, but which will become, with little cultivation, some of the most fertile ground in the neighbourhood. In the past season of distress, Miss Grattan has given great employment to the poor of the neighbourhood in making this road and embankment. Since June last, up to the present time, there have been over 200 labourers employed and from 12 to 14 masons regularly. It will, when finished, alter the appearance of Salthill and contribute much to make that favourite place one of the nicest locations in the kingdom”.

A staggering 130 years after three Galwaymen started up a fife and drum band in 1896, St Patrick’s Brass Band is still blowing strong.

University of Galway Mystics have been awarded Social Media Club of the Year by Basketball Ireland, recognising the club’s outstanding digital presence throughout the season.

Both Margie Connolly’s late brother, Eugene, and her uncle Joe, wanted her to tell people about a place in Co Galway that was very close to their hearts.