Is Galway losing its cultural capital? Meet the artists who fear for the future

Artistic projects in the Irish language are breaking new ground in the 2020 European Capital of Culture — but with young people being increasingly priced out of the city, there are claims of a shift from cultural production to cultural consumption

Emily Aherne of Hysteria Teatar: 'I know 20 really talented artistic people from Galway who are all in London'. Photo: Ray Ryan

Lorna Siggins

Who would have guessed that three relatively unknown young women shooting the breeze in Irish about everything and anything on radio would have been such a success?

Beo Ar Éigean, first presented as a podcast by Siún Ní Dhuinn, Sinéad Ní Uallacháin and Áine Ní Bhreisleáin, proved so popular that it became a weekly show on RTÉ Radio 1.