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Members of Aistear, the winning group of the prestigious Craobh Siansa Gael Linn competition 2026 gathered in Michael Fawls, in Ennis, Co. Clare this weekend for a celebratory night of music and fun.

"I think that's what the powers that be would want anyway, they want you to be walking around cynical and disheartened. But then I know for a fact that I get lit up and inspired by music at all these gigs and I learn something new all the time. And people come to the gigs, there's a community there, so if anything the fire is bigger now than it ever was."

“It’s amazing to be back in Ireland, I don’t know about saints, but it’s definitely the land of scholars, and writers, and just to be around that kind of energy again is amazing.”

People Before Profit’s candidate in the Galway West by-election says he supported the blockade by protesters of Galway Port last week.

SYNAESTHESIA leans into answering that question, with its arrival at Nun’s Island Theatre on Friday, April 10, for a one-of-a-kind performance.

Galway resident Isibeál Ní Cheallaigh has been named Ring's first Irish 'Voice of the Nation' following a nationwide casting call that captured the hearts of Irish accent lovers across the country.

The Galway-based bereaved wife and sister of a man who died from a brain tumour in October 2024 were invited to an event to mark the first anniversary of Scotland’s first research centre dedicated to brain tumours.

Galway has been carrying a quiet sadness this winter, the kind that settles gently but deeply. Maeve Joyce-Crehan’s passing last January marked the end of a life lived fully in the service of this city — across media, commerce, culture and community. For her husband, Mick Crehan, the loss is both immeasurable and intensely personal.

Since the 1820s it has been a court, a seat of city government, a cinema, a conference room, dance hall and even a stockade for internees, but next year the old Town Hall building on Court House Square will celebrate 30 years as a thoroughly successful theatre.

Galway City Council took home the prestigious ‘Festival of the Year’ Award at the 2025 Chambers Ireland Excellence in Local Government Awards, announced at a national ceremony. The ‘Galway Climate Inspirations Festival – Communities in Action’ festival beat off stiff competition from the Dublin City Sensoria Festival, Howth Maritime and Seafood Festival, Brigid - Spirit of Kildare Festival, Willie Clancy Traditional Music Summer School and Kilkenny’s Toil and Trouble to bring the award home to Galway City.