From 1 November, eight additional weekday services run on Route 424 between Galway city, Bearna and An Cheathrú Rua, as the NTA responds to overcrowding on one of the busiest rural routes in the west.
Category: Connemara & Galway
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Connemara festival calendar 2026–2027: Clifden Arts Festival’s 50th, the Pony Show, Inishbofin and the Connemarathon – every date we know
The Connemarathon is set for 25 April 2027 and Clifden Arts Festival reaches its 50th year. Here is every Connemara festival date we can confirm for 2027, with the rest clearly marked TBC.
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Connemara West at 55: how 500 Letterfrack families built a furniture college, a radio station and a village’s future
Since 1971 a company owned by around 500 north-west Connemara families, and paying no dividends, has turned Letterfrack's troubled former industrial school into a hub for a national furniture college, community radio, housing and childcare.
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Storm Boelo cuts off Kylemore: N59 and Inagh Valley flooded and Salthill shut as Galway takes a battering
Storm Boelo, the second named storm of the season, swamped the N59 at Kylemore and the Inagh Valley road, knocked out power in Recess and Kilcolgan, and forced Galway City Council to shut Salthill prom, car parks and city woodlands.
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Bohermore twist: developer wants 18 MORE rooms at hotel rising on old Tonery’s pub site, taking it back near original 182
The developer behind the hotel being built on the old Tonery's bar site in Bohermore has asked for 18 more bedrooms, a year after the pub was knocked down following a long planning fight.
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Inishbofin gale drama: three sailors towed to safety in 4-metre swells after yacht’s engine dies off Connemara
A 46-foot yacht that lost its engine south-west of Inishbofin was towed into Cleggan by Clifden's volunteer lifeboat crew as a westerly gale whipped up swells of three to four metres.
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Island exodus fears: Young Aran and Inishbofin locals struggling to find a home as councillors demand Government act NOW
Councillors have backed a motion asking the Department of Housing to give extra supports to Inis Mór, Inis Meáin, Inis Oírr and Inishbofin, where young people say they cannot find homes.
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Clifden’s winter shutdown: why Connemara’s capital goes quiet until June – and the businesses refusing to close
With the tourist office closed until June 2027 and several restaurants shuttered for the season, Clifden traders explain how they keep the lights on when the Americans go home.
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Last-gasp heartbreak for Maigh Cuilinn! Tomo Culhane’s dying-seconds goal steals Galway football crown for Salthill-Knocknacarra – and Ballinamore are next
Substitute Tomo Culhane scored 1-06, including a winning goal in the dying seconds, as Salthill-Knocknacarra dethroned Maigh Cuilinn 2-12 to 1-14 to win their fourth Galway senior football title.
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‘Upsetting’: Clifden families forced to check forecast DAYS before funerals as Errislannan graveyard floods again – and one bridge is to blame
About 60 people attended a public meeting in Clifden over repeated flooding at Errislannan graveyard, where families say they must check the forecast before funerals. A local councillor wants the bridge raised.
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