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Galway city councillors have voted unanimously to approve a memorial in Eyre Square for the late Ronnie O’Gorman, founder of the Galway Advertiser newspaper.

The Board of TG4 has announced that An Spidéal  resident Deirdre Ní Choistín has been appointed as Director General of TG4, with the statutory consent of the Government following a competitive public recruitment process.

The artistic talents of the young people of Galway were honoured on Friday last when Mayor of Galway, Cllr Peter Keane presented the prizes to the winners of the 54th Galway Advertiser Christmas Art Competition.

The Renault 5 E-Tech electric, the modern reinvention of the iconic original, has won one of the industry’s ultimate accolades after being named Top Gear's Car of the Year for 2024.

The Mazda MX-5 has been named ‘Best Convertible’ in the 2025 Carbuyer Awards in the UK. Celebrating 35 years since its debut at the 1989 Chicago Motor Show, the latest recognition for the 2024 model adds to the extensive global awards tally for Mazda’s iconic sports car.

An unprecedented look at the history of Ladies Gaelic Football is contained in UNLADYLIKE a new book by Hayley Kilgallon, which will be published this September 12. This highly anticipated work chronicles the journey of a sport that began in the 1920s, faced significant opposition, and evolved into one of the nation’s most beloved sporting associations in the LGFA.

The One Foundation is proud to announce the World premiere of “HOME: The Story of Zak Moradi,” a powerful and poignant documentary about the extraordinary life of Zak Moradi, a Kurdish refugee who found a new home and a new passion in Ireland. The screening will take place this Friday afternoon 12th July, at the Galway Film Festival.

I didn’t foresee that the death of somebody I hadn’t seen for years would have such a profound effect but as I sat sobbing over Ronnie’s death notice at the weekend, remembering the warm, generous, kind and exuberant man that he was, I realised that some lives touch our own in ways that have an impact forever.

I think it must have been in the year 1967, on a visit to O’Gorman’s Printing House which was an extension of the famous O’Gorman Bookshop, that I had a discussion with an urbane man whom I think must have been Ronnie O’Gorman’s uncle. Over the course of that visit, a discussion took place on whether there was room for a second newspaper in Galway.

Ronnie O’Gorman was the most influential Galwegian of the past fifty years. In The Galway Advertiser he created and nurtured a unique forum for Galway creativity, enterprise and community. Under Ronnie’s benign yet focused stewardship an entirely new version of Galway developed as the universal image of the city – an innovative, cultured, tolerant and sparkling city, successful, slightly raffish, and fun.