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Professor Daniel Carey, Established Professor of English at the University of Galway has been elected as the 59th president of the Royal Irish Academy.

As we approach International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8, it’s the perfect time to celebrate the women who make Galway great.

Athenry Community Playground will be undergoing over €150,000 worth of major upgrades in the coming months with help from funding from LEADER.

The Western Family History Association (WFHA), Galway’s dedicated genealogy society, celebrated its 30th Anniversary on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at the Lackagh Parish Centre.

The Irish Professional Footballers Benevolent Association (IPFBA) will host its second annual golf classic at Galway Bay Golf Resort at Renville, Oranmore this Friday, September 12.

As a new season of hockey gets underway, there is a new club on the scene in Galway.

Benny Byrne and Stephen Deveney often met in Cooke’s Bar for a pint and they invariably ended up wondering about the possibility of starting up a credit union in the Shantalla area. They were greatly encouraged by Nora Herlihy, a Cork lady who had done a great deal to spread the credit union idea. So they wrote a letter to the Galway Observer inviting interest in their idea. They got one reply, from Jack Phelan in Ashe Road. They eventually organised a meeting for the formation of a study group in Benny’s house at 20 Shantalla Place on September 26, 1963.

Nearly a week into indefinite strike action, Galway’s school secretaries and caretakers are more determined than ever to secure equal treatment and pension inclusion for the 2,600 staff affected nationwide.

We hand our children over to schools every morning, trusting them to be safe, supported, and educated. We picture classrooms, teachers, and books. But behind every bell that rings, every lesson that begins, and every school door that opens, stand two or more often-overlooked figures: the school secretary and the caretaker. These are not just peripheral roles; they are the beating heart of every school in this country.

Since its foundation in 2015, AgriKids, under the umbrella of Irish Rural Link, has reached nearly 80,000 children with dedicated workshop events. The AgriKids platform has evolved to be the leading platform in child-centric farm safety education. It provides both in-school and in-community events as well as support to key rural/farming groups such as Teagasc, libraries, family resource centres and first responders such as An Garda Síochána.