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The Town Hall, a brief history
In 1639, the Corporation ordered that some of the shops and buildings adjacent to the market be pulled down and “all the same be reduced into a strong sufficient stone house, covered with slate and to be underpropped with good stone pillars, whereby way through it shall be to the said church”. The proposed building was to be opposite the present Anthony Ryan’s shop and was to be a Tholsel or premises for the town clerk, for the Corporation records and for meetings of the Common Council.
Mayor’s Ball is back and will benefit four local charities
BY DECLAN VARLEY
Mayo graduate of the 1950s recognised at special family conferring celebration
As part of NUI Galway’s Autumn Conferring, which saw more than 1,700 graduates return to campus, the University recognised and celebrated one of the oldest graduates to have attended a conferring ceremony.
Graduate Frank gets to attend his conferring — just sixty years on
As part of NUI Galway’s Autumn Conferring, which saw more than 1,700 graduates return to campus, the University today recognised and celebrated one of the oldest graduates to have attended a conferring ceremony.
Sporting memories
"Galway hit harder than Hurricane Flora" on Sunday when the Corrib County senior hurlers became the All Ireland champions after a wait of 57 years.
Will councillors provide the strong leadership needed after Covid-19?
It has been more than 12 months since the local elections and Insider is assessing how the members of the current Galway City Council have performed and how the council has done.
From Pierce to Pearce
The world has changed a bit since the first time that Galway had a mayor named Pierce.
