Galway’s designation as European Capital of Culture in 2020, “will end in tears”, a former city mayor has predicted. City Councillor Pádraig Conneely (FG), chairman of...
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has met with the Galway 2020 committee to “see for himself the progress to date in preparing for Galway 2020”. The Minister for...
Galway’s two local authority chiefs discussed ‘pulling out’ of running the city’s European Capital of Culture 2020 programme because they can’t afford it. Brendan McGrath, Chief...
As a test run for how they would handle the national extravaganza, Galway City is to host the Connacht Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in July for...
The Galway bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2020 spent more than €1.5 million to secure the designation, according to documents released under Freedom...
A controversial poem about Galway’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2020 was commissioned at cost of €1,000. Well-known poet Rita Ann Higgins’ poem,...
The new performance space earmarked for the Dyke Road car park in time for Galway’s 2020 European Capital of Culture designation would likely spell the demise...
Galway’s Capital of Culture 2020 bid book contains 50 different projects that will take place during the year, with half of them to be held outside...
