Declan Varley

Galway Chamber has officially launched the Galway Chamber Business Awards 2025, proudly supported once again by main partner The Shannon Airport Group for the twelfth consecutive year. The awards celebrate the very best of Galway business, recognising innovation, ambition, sustainability, creativity, and community impact across the city and county.

The drawing room of the President’s quarters in the corner of the Aula Maxima is a serene place. Heavy curtains frame the windows, soft light pours across shelves of books, and there is the faint smell of fresh coffee, chocolate digestives, polished wood and old history.

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.

In the stillness of a Monday evening, as the O'Duffy Cup paraded through the countryside around Ballinasloe and Clarinbridge, the echoes of a performance born of pain and purpose still clung to the air. This was not just a victory. It was a release. A storm breaking after a long drought. A county shaking off the hurt of twelve months past and reclaiming its place among the greats. Perhaps the best.

CREW Digital has launched its brand new content creation studio, designed specifically for podcasting, livestreaming, and multimedia production.

Galway is once again in the international spotlight as the CREW Creative Enterprise & Innovation Hub at the former Cluain Mhuire at Wellpark. has been named a finalist in the prestigious SBID International Design Awards 2025. Competing in the hotly contested “Interior Design: Office Design (Europe )” category, the CREW Hub is not just a workplace – it is a bold statement of design, innovation, and community. Now, the public has the power to help bring this global award home to the West of Ireland.

The revelation that almost ten abortions a week were carried out in Galway last year has been described as ‘truly shocking’ by a well known Pro Life campaigner.

Throughout this dramatic Championship season, Galway’s senior footballers have given other teams their head, allowing them strong leads, but having the character and the characters to come back from the dead.

Throughout this dramatic Championship season, Galway’s senior footballers have given other teams their head, allowing them strong leads, but having the character and the characters to come back from the dead.

Next week, beneath the quiet skies of Tuam, shovels will meet soil. It will be no ordinary act of excavation—it will be an act of love, of memory, of finally listening to voices long silenced. The ground at the former Mother and Baby Home, where 796 children were interred without names, markers, or dignity, will open not only to archaeologists, but to a nation’s grief.