Galway remains the most idiosyncratic of Irish cities. Tony Clayton-Lea pays a visit to Connaught’s capital.

Four men have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a jewellery shop in Galway this morning.

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From food to festivals, culture to shopping, Galway has it all and that’s before you even step outside the city.

Iarnród Éireann is moving to ban alcohol on some trains. It’s all down to the nuisance caused by unwanted stag and hen parties, says Paul D’Alton

Picture the scene, you’re walking down Shop street in Galway and then the people around you start acting rather strangely.

The body of a man believed to be in his 30s has been found in Galway city.

Huge, fire-wielding dragons will invade Galway city during this year’s Galway Arts Festival. The Barcelona-based street theatre company Sarruga will bring the mythological reptiles to the festival. Expect lots of shrieking from the public as they scuttle along Shop Street with alarming speed.

'Jail the bankers' protests will take place in Dublin and Galway today.

A man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court in Galway earlier today in connection with the serious assault of a man at the weekend.

Kanturk is officially out of recession after the whole town came to Galway, raided the big race and bolted back to north Cork with their pockets bulging.

Mystery surrounds the death of a businessman who died six days after a row with youths outside his offices in Drogheda.

The results of a post-mortem examination on the body of a Co. Louth man in his 50s have proven to be inconclusive.

A post-mortem examination will be carried out later on the body of a man who died in hospital following an altercation in Co Louth last Thursday.

Gardaí are investigating the death of a 53-year-old man in Drogheda today.

Road restrictions are in place in cities and towns across the country today to facilitate hundreds of St Patrick's Day parades.

AS THEY say in political backrooms: you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.

GALWAY MEN are being asked to take an — albeit uncomfortable — stand against domestic violence by donning women’s high heels and taking part in a sponsored, one-mile walk for the charity.

Vickie Maye visits the funky hotel designed by hat man Philip Treacy

PROBABLY not the week to invoke the atmosphere, even in jest, but here we like to mix it up a little.

Athletics fanatics in Galway are attempting to follow in the footsteps of Dublin and Cork with a new marathon in the city, it was revealed today.

DUTCH-owned ACC Bank is continuing its disposal of Irish bank branches in 2010, it has just confirmed at year’s end.

GARDAÍ in Galway are examining CCTV footage in a bid to find vandals who defaced one of the oldest buildings in the city with graffiti.

Crimestoppers is offering a €10,000 reward for information about a Polish man wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of Kieran Cunningham in Galway last month.

THE trial of a Galway man accused of murdering Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has heard that calls made from his mobile phone bounced off a mast in the Lough Atalia area, where her body was found, on the night of her murder.

IT'S been a long week but punters made it over the line yesterday as the Galway Races entered the final few furlongs.

SO Brendan Cafferty regrets the loss of census returns (Letters, December 18) in the “inglorious destruction of the Custom House in the Civil War”.

MILITARY parades never really got onto the radar for kids like me in the 1970s, when parades were pretty thin on the ground.

GERRY ADAMS and his election hopefuls made it from Eyre Square through Shop Street to the Spanish Arch in 10 minutes flat. The Sinn Féin leader has set a frightening pace throughout the west’s capital.

IF the country is going down the tubes why do record numbers keep attending the Galway races? Surely it’s a rather costly spot to enjoy a few hectic days? There’s no sign at Ballybrit of the painful process that former Taoiseach Charles Haughey described as belt tightening.