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Corporal Leah Dolan

WATCH: Galway soldier prepares for first overseas peacekeeping mission
Corporal prepares for her first Lebanon deployment after intensive training with the Defence Forces

Róisín O’Brien from Salerno Secondary School, Carmel Naughton, Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Aoife Ahern from UCD at the 2026 Naughton Foundation Scholarship awards.

Galway student awarded four year Dublin college scholarship

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

Galway County Hall

€14.3m grant bringing 267 vacant or derelict Galway properties back

Molloy leads Abbeyknockmoy to victory over Kilbeacanty

Sylane hold firm against battling Ballinasloe to secure final spot

30-storey Parkgate Street building with 562 apartments

Galway based company appointed to construct Ireland's tallest building

Helicopter in action during the search

Gardai stand down major search for missing Galway local

Bus Eireann Expressway bus to Galway

Four new Galway bus services starting next month

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Galway restaurant owner elected President of Restaurants Association

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Storm Austen Ireland start time as Met Eireann pinpoint worst areas

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RIP: Well-known Galway pub owner dies

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Galway son charged with murdering mother to be served book of evidence

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Speed camera van called into question over Galway man's speeding case

Crime & Court

General view of Dublin Central Criminal Court

Galway man who raped stepdaughter for three years learns fate

Loughgeorge Garda Station

Galway woman told 'stay away' from 7 locations after court appearance

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Named local Galway man's alleged glass assault captured on CCTV

Clifden District Court

Ex-Galway garda defying court order for years taken ill before case

Menlo Pier

Galway court fines Irish businessman for illegal activity

Business

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

A room at the Salthill Hotel

Profits soar to €1.4 million at company behind Galway hotel

Parkmore Business and Technology Park

IDA to spend €290k creating green spaces and biodiversity in Parkmore

Workplace Relations Commission

MedTech ordered to pay worker €1,250 for employment law breach

Politics

Public sector protestors taking part in today's official nationwide dispute with Mayor of Galway City Cllr Helen Ogbu and Labour Cllr John McDonagh.

Galway Council services hit by strike as Councillors back workers

Galway City Council's image of Merlin Woods in 10 years time after replanting

High Court injunction stays as Thursday Merlin Woods talks proposed

150-bed ward block moves forward as part of €5bn UHG redevelopment

Planning permission refused for large wind farm in northeast Galway

What's On

Conor Montague and Kieran Kelliher in 'Counting Swans'.

All-Star hurlers seek forgiveness and new beginnings in Galway drama

Works being carried out at a new restaurant opening in Galway city

New restaurant opening in Galway city

Pádraig Stevens at Galway's Town Hall Theatre.

Top musicians gather in Galway to celebrate legendary Pádraig Stevens

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

Farming

Pa McHugh after his record-breaking ploughing session

Galway contractor smashes ploughing world record in souped-up tractor

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Breaking Farmer dies after accident on Galway farm

Farmers speak out about fuel prices

'We’re too quiet in this country'- Farmers fume over fuel at Ploughing

PICTURES: Thousands descend on Ploughing Championships for Day Two

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