Sabotage review: Joyously chaotic festival opener has all the fun of the circus
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: A gorgeous, playful, accomplished start to a festive fortnight
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As Galway’s arts festival opens, the city’s long-expected cultural space inches slowly towards planning this year
Artistic director ‘embarrassed’ at how ‘dreadfully inadequate Galway is in terms of cultural infrastructure’
Tuam is a microcosm for Ireland’s history of discarded bones
The excavation that began on the site of the mother and baby home yesterday is making history in a double sense
Portiuncula hospital is not safe for women giving birth
What the Portiuncula situation tells us is that smaller maternity units are no longer able to deliver appropriate and safe levels of maternity and neonatal care
Families at centre of Portiuncula review call into question viability of service
Concern about maternity care is ‘specific to Portiuncula’, Minister for Health says
Dublin Airport security ‘left my Aran Islands and west coast images damaged’, says US photographer
Specialist film left ‘foggy’ after search by airport security staff
RTÉ creche’s kitchen and staff canteen had to close temporarily after food safety inspection
‘Significant’ rodent droppings posed ‘grave, immediate danger’, hygiene inspector said
First Look: JP McMahon’s new Kombu Ramen and Bao Bar – ‘I don’t know how to do anything else. I like opening restaurants’
New Japanese-style restaurant in Galway will be casual, with some dishes priced below €10
Poignant documentary about Sunny Jacobs to be aired at Galway Film Fleadh
Woman who spent 17 years on death row in Florida died in a house fire six weeks ago
How to move to a remote Irish island, to live a ‘better way of life’
There are tens of thousands of euro in grants available to renovate an island home, but life there might not suit everyone
Ten great Irish restaurants for outdoor dining
Fancy eating outside? These places offer terrace and outdoor dining that’s not always dependent on the Irish weather
Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order
‘Ireland’s first serial killer’ John Shaw could be freed from prison in early 2026
Murderer is applying for parole and could be freed from Dublin prison early next year, 50 years after the murders of Elizabeth Plunkett and Mary Duffy
‘I told a story about a sex toy at my mother’s funeral. The priest was mortified, but Mum would have loved it’
Comedian Aoife Dunne was shattered by grief after her mother’s death, but now she’s finding giggles in the darkness
Piers Morgan: ‘My DNA is predominantly Irish whether Ireland wants that or not’
Broadcaster on his famous friends, future of media, ‘pathetic’ Kneecap and why his Offaly roots don’t make him a Biffo
An Irish industrial folly spawns a new generation of cutting-edge creativity
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Interface’s This Too Will Pass, at the Carrolls salmon hatchery, and Funeral for Ashes, by Conor Maloney and John Conneely
Donegal crash: Mother and daughter who died named locally
Ella McLaughlin (6) and her mother Natalie died from injuries sustained in crash near Carndonagh on Wednesday
GP black spots: Parts of Clare, Mayo among areas ‘at risk’ of losing doctor
Report identifies 132 GPs ‘at risk of retirement with no viable replacement’, which would represent tens of thousands of patients
A Cork woman in the circus: ‘In transition year, I wrote to a circus dance company asking if I could do an internship’
Gracie Marshall quit school to train to be a performer. Now Sabotage, in which she stars, is on its way to Galway International Arts Festival
Restaurants in Ireland where you can save money by bringing your own bottle
Eating out is an expensive pursuit these days so it’s worth seeking value when you can
Kinvara residents seek to bring challenge against housing of asylum seekers at hotel
Use of hotel as accommodation centre since 2019 has resulted in losses of up to €13.3m to the local area, residents claim
Ireland’s niche tour guides: Holidays for foodies, newlyweds and baby-boomers
From elopements to college reunions, a growing number of firms cater for smaller groups in search of particular experiences
Galway hotel fire ‘pulled our community together to help other newcomers’, says professor
Cancer specialist recalls 2023 incident as he launches foundation to help refugees and asylum seekers access education
Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality
Official documents seem to exist in some kind of parallel universe, with no expectation that targets can be met
Benedictine monastery at Kylemore Abbey voted Ireland’s favourite building at RIAI awards
Axo Architects’ ‘context-sensitive design’ scoops first prize while Dún Laoghaire Baths comes in fourth
Irish pubs with a view: 14 of the best seaside bars for a sunny day
Fourteen go-to spots for the finest outdoor pints - nothing beats old-school pubs perched in stunning coastal areas
Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland’s Opus Dei: ‘Catholicism on cocaine’
Anne Marie Allen’s strikingly angry memoir recalls the years she spent working as an unpaid skivvy for the Catholic Church institution
How Tuam, synonymous with a dark side of Irish history, can finally ‘do the right thing’
Two very different playgrounds exist in Co Galway town
‘I regret spending money on cars. It always feels like a financial black hole’
Me & My Money: Bastien Peyraud, general manager, G Hotel and Spa, Galway
Catherine Corless: ‘I was told more often than not that I was giving Tuam a bad name’
Catherine Corless says the 796 children kept her going during ‘painful’ fight for justice
Bookish breaks: Get inspired with these literary destinations, from Castletownshend to the French Riviera
To celebrate Bloomsday on June 16th, we explore spots that inspired famous writers to create their classics
One in four single people seeking emergency accommodation are from direct provision, say homeless agencies
Meeting of high-level committee advising Government also hears of increase in number of people over 60 falling into homelessness
Coastal homes: ‘Buyers like the idea of slowing down. It’s the combination of green and blue for wellness and lifestyle’
Homes with direct access to the water are the Holy Grail, selling agents say
Naval base for Galway could form part of Ireland’s first maritime security strategy
Tánaiste announces four-week public consultation for strategy due by year end
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