Celebrating 50 Years!!
March 2025 Lorient May 2025 Galway Your memories
Brittany Fest Galway 2024
24, 25, 26 MAY – Inismor, Inverin, Galway
Lorient Interceltique Festival
August 2023
Brittany Fest Galway 2023
19 – 21 May 2023 For its third edition the Galway Brittany Fest will take place on 19th, 20th and 21st of May in Galway city. Concerts with Galvian Way and with Breton…
Soccer and GAA in Galway
The Lorient soccer club travelled to Galway to meet the friends they’d made in August 2022. They also discovered Connemara and met with Mayor Cllr Clodagh Higgins and Cllr Mike Cubbard. They also…
Soccer Exchange, Lorient 2022
Galway Bohemians FC travelled to Lorient to meet, train and play with Lorient soccer club. They also were welcomed by Mairie de Lorient and discovered the area.
Twinning Conference 2022
Official visit from a Lorient delegation with Mayor Fabrice Loher welcomed by Cllr Colette Connolly with visits and meeting Galway Chamber of Commerce, unveiling of commemorative plaque Rue de Lorient, Udaras, Twinning conference…
Hangar’t with LimeLight Creative Studio Oranmore
HANGAR’T is an association based in Nizon which was started in 1992 by Yves Quentel . It was initiated with the idea of keeping the memory of rural life using old photos and…
The Lorient Yawl
As part of the Mini Brittany fest 2022, a yawl boat from Lorient is part of the fest in Galway for a week, sailing in the bay and around the docks with the…
Mini Brittany Fest Galway 2022
Degemer mat – Failte – Welcome! The Galway Lorient Twinning committee is delighted to present the Mini Brittany Fest 2022. The program includes a range of events and activities to celebrate the Celtic…
Lorient Delegation trip to Galway
A delegation from Lorient came to Galway as an official visit. They met different key partners and representatives of Galway City and County Galway such as ATU, University of Galway, Galway Chamber of…
Galway Delegation trip to Lorient March 2021
In March 2022 an official delegation was sent from Galway to Lorient. The Galway delegation included Cllr. Mayor Colette Connolly, President of the Chamber of Commerce Aengus Burns, CEO of Galway Chamber Kenny…
Mini Brittany Fest Galway 2021
Still very much under COVID 19 Restrictions, the Galway Lorient Twinning organised an outdoor and online mini Brittany fest. Outdoor performance with Marieke (Pianocean), Michael Chang and Liz Coleman in the port of…
Rugby Exchanges
Trip to Lorient for Corinthians A group of young teenagers (boys) travelling to Lorient to meet, train and play with Lorient Club de Rugby
Galway Cruise Company
End of June 2019, 23 sailing boats embarked on an epic journey travelling from Galway to Lorient. The idea started between friends in Lorient and with the Galway Sailing Club to help promote…
Galway Lorient 40th Anniversary!!
In September 2015, celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Galway Lorient twinning. An exhibition of old photographs and press articles from Galway Advertiser and Connacht Tribune was organised. President Michael D Higgins…