what to see and do in galway ireland?
Galway City Museum Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe Spanish Arch Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway Galway Sportsgrounds Hotel Meyrick Eyre Square St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church National University of Ireland, Galway Galway Arts Festival
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 The most obvious manifestation of these links can be seen in the annual St. Patrick 's Day Festival . The festival is sponsored by the Irish Government and Guinness . The festival runs for over a fortnight and includes lectures , film shows , dance / Gaelic football competitions and music performances . The festival is the largest Irish celebration in Scotland . 

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 The travel writer and biographer , James Pope @-@ Hennessy , described the River Shannon at Banagher in September in his biography of Anthony Trollope : " The month of September in Banagher , and all along the Shannon banks , is visually a glorious one , with golden autumn mornings , the low sun making long shadows of the houses in the street . At dusk the whole river reflects the varied sunsets as the days draw in – effects of palest pink , for instance , striped by cloudy lines of green , or an horizon aflame with scarlet and orange light . " 

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 With thousands of lakes , over 14 @,@ 000 kilometres ( 8 @,@ 700 mi ) of fish bearing rivers and over 3 @,@ 700 kilometres ( 2 @,@ 300 mi ) of coastline , Ireland is a popular angling destination . The temperate Irish climate is suited to sport angling . While salmon and trout fishing remain popular with anglers , salmon fishing in particular received a boost in 2006 with the closing of the salmon driftnet fishery . Coarse fishing continues to increase its profile . Sea angling is developed with many beaches mapped and signposted , and the range of sea angling species is around 80 . 

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 In Ireland the series was broadcast on RTÉ television , first starting in the early 1990s on RTÉ Two , and in the early 2000s RTÉ began broadcasting it on RTÉ One at 5 : 30 pm each weekday , splitting hour long episodes into two @-@ part half @-@ hour episodes . RTÉ discontinued this in 2009 , moving the show to Monday Nights on RTÉ Two . RTÉ showed episodes from 2005 . AIn 2010 RTÉ moved the show from its prime time slot on RTÉ Two to a midnight slot on RTÉ One on Thursday nights , but the show remained on the RTÉ player . 

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 Dublin is the most heavily touristed region and home to several of the most popular attractions such as the Guinness Storehouse and Book of Kells . The west and south west , which includes the Lakes of Killarney and the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry and Connemara and the Aran Islands in County Galway , are also popular tourist destinations . 
