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Galway rebels led the largest raid outside of Dublin during the Easter Rising - and yesterday thousands of people attended the 1916 centenary celebrations at Athenry Castle to remember them. Skills ...

A Co Galway schoolboy with cerebral palsy has discovered a love of art - by using the wheels of his wheelchair to apply the paint. Joshua Whelan, a first year pupil at Clarin College in Athenry, ...

Ireland has emerged as an accommodating host to many of the global hyperscale community’s major players in recent years, with the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft collectively investing ...

The 2020 Athenry Walled Towns Day is live! It has been in existence since 2006. It is a family focused heritage and educational fun day where all sectors of the community can gain a greater awareness, ...

Connemara's Rosmuc and east Galway's Athenry are focal points for the 1916 centenary's programme in the west on Easter Monday. Athenry is one of four national points - including Dublin, Ashbourne, Co ...

One of the most celebrated lighting up ceremonies in Co Galway will go ahead this Friday as locals excitement grows for the 2025 edition. Athenry Community Lights has seen hundreds fill the town ...

Galway County Council has confirmed that the water supply in the Athenry town has been contaminated by farmyard waste. Tests carried out this week indicated bacteriological contamination. The effluent ...

The Athenry Ring Road has received a major boost as plans look set to move forward. Funding has been secured for the eastern section of the Athenry Ring Road. This follows an application from Galway ...

Edel Quinn (grand daughter of Mary Ann Rooney, Cumann na mBan) and Brian Cleary (grandson of Irish Volunteers VP Tomas B Cleary) who unveiled a plaque in Athenry Photo: Andrew Downes Galway rebels led ...