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Monroe’s Tavern has been named ‘Best Music Pub’ in the Connacht region at this year’s Irish Pub Awards.

The recipients of the 2025 Galway People of the Year Awards, organised in partnership with Basil Holian of Watchman Holdings, were unveiled at a press reception in the Galway Bay Hotel over the weekend.

In the competitive environment of Galway medtech innovation, a quiet revolution in healthcare is taking place. Based in the city and founded by the trailblazing Siobhán Kelleher, OnaWave Medical is emerging as a game-changing force in the world of medtech, particularly in the realm of pelvic health and hormonal conditions.

Spoiler alert: I saw some of this year’s most anticipated films, and ate great Italian food too.

On 24 October 1945, a DC-4 aircraft operated by American Overseas Airlines touched down at Shannon Airport, making history as the first scheduled, commercial transatlantic passenger flight.

The Clifden Arts Festival is proud to present a major highlight of this year’s Visual Arts Programme: an exhibition of handmade fine art prints from the renowned Dublin-based studio Stoney Road Press. Running from September 16 to 27, the Stoney Road Press exhibition will take place in the Station House Museum, Clifden.

In July 2023, I was lucky enough to nab a ticket for the Irish premiere of Past Lives during the Galway Film Fleadh.

The Amazing Apples will bring their high-energy performance to the stage as they deliver a rousing set of Irish, Americana, dance, and heavy rock anthems.

On this day, the 14th of August in 1958, the Dutch KLM Super-constellation airliner named Hugo de Groot crashed into the sea about 100 miles off the Conamara coast with the loss of 99 lives. The flight was on its way to New York from Amsterdam via Shannon with 91 passengers and eight crew on board. Nobody survived the tragedy. It was the worst disaster involving a single plane in the history of aviation up to that point.

In their song 'Joyce Country Céilí Band', the Saw Doctors proclaim they will play any "house, pub or parish hall", but they can perform at massive festivals too, as County Galway's most famous rockers have been added to the Electric Picnic line-up.