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Flaherty Markets Electrical Galway scooped the award for ‘Best Performing Branch’ for lighting recycling at Ireland’s second Association of Electrical Wholesalers (AEW) awards in Dublin recently.

Responding to positive comments from her colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, local TD and Minister for Education, Hildegarde Naughton, has indicated that she will ensure that the Galway Ring Road be designated as critical infrastructure under the Critical Infrastructure Act in the coming months. Minister Chambers indicated at the weekend that he would expect the ring road to be included in the list of critical infrastructure projects.

Hoteliers from across the city and county recently met with TDs and Senators to discuss the key challenges facing Irish tourism and the measures required to ensure the successful long-term development of Ireland’s largest indigenous industry, supporting over 270,000 livelihoods – including 22,000 in Galway.

Galway has been officially selected to host the European Masters Athletics Non-Stadia Championships in 2028.

On July 1, Ireland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the next six months, and for the first time, housing will sit near the top of that agenda. That is not a coincidence, and it is not just an Irish story. Across Europe, the conversation about housing shortages has shifted. It is no longer framed primarily as a social issue. It is now being framed as an economic competitiveness issue, and that change in framing is hugely significant.

A new set of measures aimed at improving community safety in County Galway has been discussed by the Galway County Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP), including new bye-laws regulating alcohol consumption in public places and a major public consultation on safety concerns.

The South Galway Flood Relief Committee (SGFRC) is calling on Minister Boxer Moran (OPW) and Minister Sean Canney to intervene personally to rescue a flood relief scheme that has been in development for over a decade and is now critically off schedule.

Galway City Council has launched a pioneering Feasibility Report on a Tenant Participation Pilot Project for Traveller-Specific Group Housing, at Bóithrín na Saoirse, Circular Road, Galway. The results of the pilot support the development of a practical, culturally responsive, and sustainable framework for tenant involvement - with the potential to benefit more than 90 families living in Traveller?specific accommodation in Galway City.

Property insights by Johnny Gannon, Fair Deal Property

This June, during World Haemochromatosis Awareness Week (1st–7th June 2026), the Irish Haemochromatosis Association (IHA) is calling on the public to recognise the symptoms of haemochromatosis, also known as iron overload, and seek testing earlier. Haemochromatosis is Ireland’s most common genetic condition.