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The Children’s Remembrance Day Committee, University Hospital Galway (UHG) is inviting parents and families who have experienced the loss of a baby or child to the Annual Children’s Remembrance Mass.

A green-fingered Galway clergywoman has been growing vegetables in repurposed containers in an effort to raise awareness of a Christian Aid funded project that’s helping to reduce poverty and malnutrition among low-income families in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

A commemorative plaque has been unveiled to honour a Galway soldier fatally wounded while serving on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon over 45 years ago. Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr Mike Cubbard has joined members of the family of the late Private Stephen Griffin to unveil the stone plaque which has been erected adjacent to Bóthar Stiofáin, Rahoon, which is named in his honour.

John Buckley, a Cork father of four, posted a letter and a package before Christmas to a 31-year-old prisoner serving a life sentence for murder in a Scottish jail.

Private Ciara Shanahan was on duty at the gate post of Renmore Barracks on the night of August 15, 2024, when she noticed someone acting suspiciously outside.

In the history of the Defence Forces it is thought no unit has ever earned four Distinguished Service Medals simultaneously, but this will occur in Galway next month, when four Renmore-based 1st Infantry Battalion members will achieve that milestone.

The Galway-based French Honorary Consul has issued an appeal to the public to help recover and share the stories of Irish men and women who served with the Irish Red Cross Hospital in St Lô, Normandy, between December 1945 and January 1947.

It is not just Israeli drones hovering around Camp Shamrock, observing what Irish troops are up to, 126 Battalion chaplain Fr Paul Murphy has an eagle eye peeled too.

These detection arrays are part of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-projectile defence system against bombardment by Hezbollah and its affiliates. The missile system is designed to destroy incoming rockets and heavy artillery.

Lieutenant Colonel Máirtín Coffey is only one month into his new role as Barracks Commander of Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa, in Renmore, but he is no stranger to Galway city. He wants to improve the relationship between the military, and the wider city its members and families live in.