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Tickets are now on sale for a staging of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten in Galway this autumn, as part of Druid’s ‘Strange Country: Ireland in America’ theatre theme for 2026.

When Erica Herwood learned that her son, Keelan, had autism, she was thrown into a world she never imagined being in, she says.

Last Friday, Galway Autism Partnership (GAP) welcomed a very special visitor to GAP House as Thomas Byrne and his family called in to celebrate the remarkable success of a fundraising initiative that has captured hearts across the community.

“I don’t want to throw my client’s spouse under a bus” a defence solicitor told Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court, to which the Judge responded “but you just have”.

On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.

Catherine’s life is changed the moment she discovers her husband dead, alone and motionless inside their glasshouse. What unfolds over the following days is a raw exploration of grief, financial hardship, isolating rural loneliness, and a fierce emotional awakening that challenges everything she thought she knew.

In 1965, the Galway Arms Golf Society was formed in the pub of that name on Dominick Street with the blessing of the owners, Jimmy and Nancy Coen. The idea of forming a society was Tommy Donnelly’s who, for his troubles, became its first secretary. Jimmy Coen was elected the first president, Finbarr O’Mahony as treasurer and Paddy Noonan as club captain.

Two Galway women are taking on a gruelling, week-long Arctic challenge to raise funds for the Irish Heart Foundation and increase awareness of the risk of heart disease and stroke in women.

The 16th of October 2016 is etched indelibly onto Olive Foley's memory. It is a day she will never forget.