The Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology was an institute of technology, located in Galway, Ireland. In April 2022, it was formally dissolved, and its functions were transferred to Atlantic Technological University (ATU). Now a constituent institute of ATU, it has facilities in the west of Ireland. GMIT's campuses are located in Galway City, Castlebar, Letterfrack and Mountbellew. GMIT won The Sunday Times Institute of Technology of the Year award in 2004, 2007, 2015 and 2022. GMIT also has a number of specialist research centres and two Innovation Hubs.
Paul Connaughton Snr is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for Land Structure and Development from 1982 to 1987. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Galway East constituency from 1981 to 2011. He also served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 1977 to 1981.
Enda Colleran was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played for the Mountbellew–Moylough club and at senior level for the Galway county team.
Michael F. Kitt was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and long-serving Teachta Dála (TD).
East Galway was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922.
Corofin GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Corofin, County Galway, Ireland. The club serves the two parishes of Cummer and Kilmoylan and Belclare.
Mountbellew–Moylough is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA. The club was formerly known as Mountbellew before amalgamating with Moylough.
Dessie Dolan is an Irish Gaelic football manager who has been manager of the senior Westmeath county team since 2022.
Mountbellew or Mountbellew Bridge is a town in County Galway, Ireland. It lies mostly within the townland of Treanrevagh on the N63 national primary road. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of over 770.
Val Daly is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player.
Michael Meehan is a Gaelic footballer from County Galway. Meehan plays his club football with Caltra and played county football for the Galway senior football team. He announced his retirement from inter county football on 21 March 2014 due to injury.
The R359 road is a regional road in Ireland stretching north-south for 16 km between Mountbellew and Woodlawn in County Galway. En route it passes through Castleblakeney and Ballymacward.
Moylough is a rural village located in County Galway in Ireland. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 518.
John Geraghty is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played at club level with Kilkerrin, Mountbellew–Moylough and Fr Griffin's and at inter-county level with the Galway senior football team. He usually lined out as a goalkeeper.
Christy Tyrrell (born December 1943) from Kilkerrin, Co Galway, is a former Irish Gaelic football player. He played with his local club Kilkerrin/Clonberne and at an inter-county level with the "Galway three-in-a-row" All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning team in 1964-1966.
Noel Colleran is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Mountbellew and was a member of the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mountbellew Agricultural College or Franciscan Brothers College is a training college for the farming and agricultural industry in Mountbellew, County Galway, Ireland. It was founded in 1904 by the Franciscan Brothers, who previously had a secondary school on the location, and was the first such college in Ireland. It is a private college but runs courses in association with the Irish governments Agricultural and Food Development Authority (Teagasc) and the nearby Atlantic Technological University Mountbellew campus (GMIT).
University of Galway GAA comprises the Gaelic football and hurling teams at the University of Galway.
Emer Colleran was an Irish microbiologist, academic and an environmental advocate. She was professor of microbiology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, one of Mary Robinson's nominees on the Council of State, and chairwoman of An Taisce - the National Trust for Ireland.
Atlantic Technological University is a technological university in the west and north-west of Ireland. It was formally established on 1 April 2022 as a merger of three existing institutes of technology (ITs) - Galway-Mayo IT, IT Sligo, and Letterkenny IT - into a single university, the fourth such TU in Ireland.
