Traffic from Russia's 'shadow fleet' off Ireland's west coast has almost doubled this year, and most of the ageing tankers have serious safety defects. Here's what an oil spill would mean for Connemara.
Category: Connemara & Galway
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GARTH IS BACK: Garth Brooks announces five-county Irish tour for 2027 – with two nights at Galway’s Pearse Stadium
Garth Brooks is returning to Ireland in 2027 with ten shows across Belfast, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Cork. Tickets go on sale Thursday 12 November at 8am.
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WEST IS BEST IN LONDON: Kylemore Abbey, Killary Fjord and Galway tour firm fly the flag at the world’s biggest travel fair
Three Connemara and Galway tourism businesses have joined Tourism Ireland at World Travel Market in London, where around 3,600 meetings are expected to bring in millions of euro in 2027 business.
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ROAD TO NOWHERE NO MORE: Galway City Ring Road finally gets the green light after more than 20 years of delays
The last legal challenge against the N6 Galway City Ring Road has been withdrawn, clearing the way for the 18km route from the M6 to Bearna. Construction is expected to start by 2028.
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Connemara bus boost: EIGHT extra Route 424 services kick in for packed Spiddal and Carraroe commuters – plus every other public transport change this month
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.
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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.