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Ciarán Conneely and German visitor Nadine pictured on a Galway street in the 1990s, in a photograph that resurfaced in America more than 30 years later.

Mystery Galway photo found in America after 30 years has funny twist
A chance encounter on a Galway street sparked an unlikely transatlantic search – and when the mystery man finally came forward, nobody expected his response.
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Hollywood star Kate Mulgrew and series writer Eithne Verling in Galway ahead of red-carpet premiere of RTÉ's the Galway Bay Murders.

Stars hit town with murder in mind!

Clifden RNLI volunteers battled four-metre swells to tow three sailors to safety after their yacht suffered engine failure.

Yacht crew is rescued in gale off Inishbofin

Katie Devaney, from Kilconly near Tuam, speaking at Dáil na nÓg in May 2026. The High Cross College student recently represented Ireland at the European Youth Parliament in Verona.

Tuam teen’s love of debate takes her to European stage

Carmel, Mary, Margaret and Eileen Keleghan, Killanin, were indoors for Race in Pink at the Galway Races in aid of the NBCRI.

West takes a battering from Storm Boelo

University Hospital Galway (UHG), where 34 patients were on trolleys on Thursday morning amid flu and Covid-19 outbreaks and severe pressure on hospital beds.

Galway hospital urges public to avoid amid latest outbreaks

Michael D Higgins with his wife Sabina and participants at EAPN Ireland’s event at the PorterShed on Friday.

Michael D Higgins speaks out on poverty in Galway

A still from Fieldwork, the award-winning short that Oranmore filmmaker Harry McGrady, 18, is developing into his first feature film.

Galway teenager plots his first feature film

Dove Ellis performing at the Mercury Prize ceremony in Newcastle

Dove Ellis misses out on Mercury Prize

Sally Rooney, whose novels have sparked a surge in orders from British readers at Galway’s Kennys Bookshop in a show of support for the Irish author.

Readers rally behind Sally Rooney as UK orders hit Galway bookshops

Galway singer-songwriter Dove Ellis, whose debut album Blizzard is shortlisted for the Mercury Prize.

Galway’s Dove Ellis eyes Mercury Prize glory

A Galway based cake artist has scooped $45,000 and crowned the winner of the second season of the hit Netflix series Is It Cake? Halloween special. Her winning creation was a zombie emerging from a grave, with a dirty chai cake hidden beneath its frightening exterior.

The icing on the cake: Galway baker wins €40,000 Netflix crown
Oranmore’s Corinna Maguire fooled the judges with a spooky creation to take the title on Netflix’s Is It Cake? Halloween.
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Bus Eireann Expressway bus to Galway

Four new Galway bus services starting next month

Hannah Clarke, her grandmother Margaret Moloney of Tuam and mother Anne Clarke with the University of Galway student register showing the signature of Hannah’s great-grandmother, Mary C. Whyte

Tuam granny in tears as family marks 90-year university tradition

University Hospital Galway has warned of long Emergency Department delays and asks for emergency only visits after ‘an extremely busy weekend’ with 55 patients awaiting beds on Monday morning

UHG warns of long emergency waits as all beds full

Entrepreneurs… Loughrea brothers Robbie and Lewis Williams in their 3D-printing stall.

Galway brothers 'printing money' with sell-out successful business

Galway LGBTQ+ activist Nuala Ward reflects on the friendships, struggles and volunteers behind decades of campaigning, as documentary Lesbian Lines brings their story to the big screen.

The Galway activist who has spent decades fighting for lesbian rights

The Gaeltacht contingent entertaining the crowd in Verona

From Verona to Galway: Inis Oírr man’s vision for a new festival

The plane ‘EI-JCK’ bought by Aer Arran owner Peter McKenna in honour of his son Jack flew over University Hospital Galway where Jack was being cared for before his death.

Aer Arann owner honours son Jack’s life with touching plane tribute

Small firms are not safe from AI cyber attacks... Dr Mamoona Asghar, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Galway, warns size is no protection from AI cybercrime as AI cyber attacks continue to rise.

Small Galway firms warned of big AI cybercrime threat

Sotheby’s auction

PICS: Galway art could fetch eyewatering price at famous UK auction

Galway turns out to support Gaza doctors at sold-out Life Support screening. The film, a critical new documentary chronicling the firsthand experiences of international doctors working in Gaza was held at the Town Hall Theatre to a sold out crowd

Galway turns out to support Gaza doctors at sold-out Support screening

Fergus painted his own work of art in the garden of Jackson Pollock's former NY apartment. He got inspired during the Covid lockdown

Galway entrepreneur selling famous New York apartment for $2 million
The wider Greenwich Village neighbourhood has its own rich creative history, with Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, John Lennon and Yoko Ono among the musicians who have called it home
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War of words blows up over Galway buses

Critical... Martin O'Connor of Cope Galway

Budget breaks do little for Galway people living on the margins

Aware's Clinical Director Dr. Susan Brannick

Aware Research Reflects Increase In Loneliness and Isolation

Aware volunteer Declan Smith who helps facilitate the local Support and Self-Care Group for adults living with depression, bipolar disorder or anxiety at Croí na Gaillimhe, Mill Street, Galway

Local Galway man lost his 'mañana personality' after cancer survival

Galway TD and former head of the Irish Medical Organisation Martin Daly has called for a ban on the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children to be fast-tracked

Galway TD hoping to fast-track kids energy drink ban

Mike Redfern, chair of U3A Galway, is encouraging fellow retirees to embrace a life of learning, curiosity and new experiences.

The retired 82-year-old man who 'never stops'

Darren Gholamian, an SNA in Scoil Íosa in Oranmore, is running the Galway half marathon this Saturday October 3rd to raise funds for 12 year old Izzy Sallis, his former student who was left paralysed from the neck down following complicated spinal surgery

Galway teacher's loving gesture for student 'paralysed' after surgery

Members of the U3A (University of the Third Age) Galway Chair Mike Redfurn & Mo Ryan gather for their monthly book club at Age Action Galway

Woman reunites with Galway garda 50 years after 'unlikely scene'

Campaigners take their castle lobby to the gates. Eamonn Coy, Director of Kinvara Community Council, Fran O'Reilly, Kinvara Heritage Group, Des O'Reilly, Kinvara Community Council, and Karen Pappin, Kinvara Heritage Group, before the start of the Dunguaire Castle Gathering event in Kinvara on Wednesday September 30th

Kinvara campaigners demand Dunguaire Castle reopening

Galway women bring Gaza doctors to Town Hall for Life Support

Galway women host Gaza doctors

Dr Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Ifremer, Professor Franck Lartaud, Sorbonne University, Marie-Claire Fabri, Ifremer, and Professor Anthony Grehan, University of Galway.

Galway Scientists Helping To Bring Atlantic Reefs Back To Life

Moycullen women’s basketball players swap their jerseys for glad rags to celebrate the club’s 60th anniversary

The Rise of Maigh Cuilinn Women’s Basketball

No court, no limits: Maigh Cuilinn’s remarkable 60 years

No court, no limits: Maigh Cuilinn’s remarkable 60 years

Galway Hooker sailing past Menlo Castle

Galway hookers could disappear if urgent move not made

The path the children have to take to school each day

'Someone will die' - Galway dad's warning after nearly losing son

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