Welcome Home Team Ireland! 73 Team Ireland athletes return home from Special Olympics World Summer Games with 75 medals and a hero’s welcome! 🥇 Gold 24 🥈 Silver 22 🥉 Bronze 29 The team arrived at Dublin airport, greeted by a cheering crowd of friends and family, all eager to celebrate their momentous medal haul. Besides the medals,… Read more »

Special Olympics Ireland has just announced that ‘Ireland are sending the largest travelling delegation of family and friends to the highly anticipated Special Olympics World Games.’ This prestigious event, recognized as the largest inclusive sporting event in the world, will be held in Berlin, Germany, from June 17 to 25, 2023. The Irish team, consisting… Read more »

At the unveiling of Team Ireland’s female basketball team ahead of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin, platinum sponsor of Special Olympics Ireland, Gala Retail, took the opportunity to gift family and friends of the team new supporter merchandise. This year, outside of Germany, Ireland is the country with the largest delegation, now… Read more »

GALA RETAIL is offering €40,000 of staycation gift vouchers to lucky customers this Spring with its Gala Getaways promotion, which is live in stores now. Teaming up with IrelandHotels.com for the instore promotion, the Gala Getaways giveaway invites Gala customers who spend over €10 in participating stores to enter a draw instore to win a… Read more »

Gala Retail Strikes New Sponsorship Deal with Starcamp Leading Irish convenience retailer, Gala Retail has announced a three-year extension to its title sponsorship with Ireland’s number-one network of children’s activity camps, Starcamp. Starcamp is known nationwide for its award-winning Summer camps, which take place in more than 250 locations across Ireland each year, and this… Read more »

Gala Retail Announces €80,000 in Gala Gifts For All Campaign With a massive €80,000 prize pot up for grabs, leading Irish convenience retail group, Gala Retail has launched its ‘Gala Gifts For All’ campaign on today, Random Acts of Kindness Day, Friday 17th February.  The retail group teamed up with TV and radio presenter, Lucy… Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Gala Retail will feature as one of Operation Transformation Retail Partners on the 2023 show. First programme airs on the 4th January Don’t miss tomorrow evening’s first episode of Operation Transformation @ 21.35 on RTE1. This year Gala retail is supporting the program.  Gala.ie – https://www.gala.ie/gala-retail-supporting-rte-operation-transformation/ 

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Hi All, We would like to congratulate Dowlings Gala Killenard, Co Laois this year’s Convenience Store of the Year (Small) Silver Winner – & McGuires of Rooskey, Co Roscommon  Forecourt Retailer of the Year (Small) Silver Winner Well done to our winners on the night as well as our other finalists and participants, in what… Read more »

Niall Quinn, Irish former international soccer player is calling on people from across Ireland to get “Freezin’ For A Reason” this December by taking part in Special Olympics Ireland’s Polar Plunge, which is proudly supported by Gala Retail. Niall has teamed up with Special Olympics Ireland to launch this exciting fundraising campaign, which will see… Read more »

To All We are delighted to announce ‘The Recipe’ our final in-store promotion this year that gives you a chance to WIN a €200 Gala Voucher! Timings Promotion starts | 21.11.22 End date | 18/12/22 Retailer draws winner in store 19/12/22 Mechanics When a customer spends €10 or more in your store (excludes Cigs, Lotto, Fuel) they will… Read more »

Cork Woman Crowned Overall Inspirational Person of the Year at Gala Retail Inspiration Awards FOLLOWING a nationwide search to uncover Ireland’s most inspirational people, Noreen Murphy, from Bantry in County Cork, has been named as Overall Inspirational Person of the Year following the recent Gala Retail Inspiration Awards with Virgin Media.  Noreen’s extensive and inspirational… Read more »

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BALLINA, CO. CLARE is home of the latest winning ticket from Friday’s EuroMillions draw with one lucky winner scooping a whopping €30,928,078 prize jackpot. The winning ticket was sold by Larkin’s Gala in Ballina, Killaloe, Co. Clare and the ticket buyer has been announced as the sole winner of the EuroMillions Jackpot, matching five numbers… Read more »

-Nominations are now open for Ireland’s inspirational county heroes who have changed your life or the lives of people in your local community- Gala Retail has teamed up with Virgin Media Television to launch a search for Ireland’s Inspirational Heroes – the people who have made a difference to the lives of others with their… Read more »

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    Congratulations to Kareen and her team at Gala, The Brink, Rathdrinagh, Navan, Co. Meath, who sold a €32,000 winning Euro Millions Ticket.

To All We are delighted to announce ‘Gala Getaways’ our second in-store promotion this year that gives customers a chance to WIN a €250 gift card to spend with IrelandHotels.com.  GALA RETAIL is set to give away €40,000 of staycation gift vouchers to lucky customers this Summer with its Gala Getaways promotion, which is live in stores now. Teaming… Read more »

School’s out for kids & it’s their Independence Day…!!! Coming to all Galato stores this week will be the 4th of July Celebration Ice Cream Sundae.  

Summer is in the air and Starcamp with Gala Retail will be hosting activity camps for kids in locations across Ireland throughout July and August. This year sees leading Irish convenience retailer, Gala Retail, continue its sponsorship of Starcamp for a second year, supporting Starcamp in its delivery of activity camps all across the country… Read more »

€30,000 of family up for grabs in new in-store promotion ‘SUMMER DAYS’ are here at Gala Retail which has announced that it will give away €30,000 of prizes for family days out at some of Ireland’s top attractions with its ‘Summer Days’ promotion. The ‘Summer Days’ promotion will see Gala stores give customers the chance… Read more »

The Shelf-Life C Awards ceremony was held last night, Thursday 10th March, and is one of the most coveted honours in the convenience store business.  It is the only independently judged awards programme for the c–store sector and we are delighted to confirm that there were two Gala store winners. Padraig & Margaret McKenna of Lynch’s… Read more »

Platinum sponsor of Special Olympics Ireland, Gala Retail, has announced the launch of a range of limited-edition reusable shopping bags that will help to raise funds for Special Olympics Ireland. The convenience retail Group has teamed up with Dublin-based artist, illustrator and muralist, Claire Prouvost who created a bespoke illustration for the bag that incorporates… Read more »

We are very excited to confirm that the winning EuroMillions jackpot ticket worth an astonishing €30,928,078 was sold in Siobhan and Michael Larkin’s Gala in Ballina, Killaloe, Co. Clare, and was the only winning ticket of the EuroMillions Jackpot, matching five numbers and two stars. The winning Quick Pick ticket was sold on Sunday 6th February.… Read more »

Keeping old family recipes alive is a big part of Christmas. But if that recipe gets misplaced, a bit of trial and error comes into play. Thankfully, there’s always a Gala nearby to pick up whatever ingredients you might need. That’s exactly what our brand new Christmas ad is all about. Watch it below and… Read more »

Pictured – Brian Tuffy, John McGloin, Gary Desmond & Mayo’s Inspiration Winner, and National Winner Marion Mattimoe from Ballina, Co. Mayo.  FOLLOWING a nationwide search to uncover Ireland’s most inspirational people, Marion Mattimoe from Ballina, Co. Mayo is celebrating after being named Overall Inspirational Hero of the Year in the Gala Retail and Virgin Media… Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Polar Plunge has returned in style for December 2021. Stephanie Roche was at Sandycove Beach to launch this year’s campaign in conjunction with Gala Retail – It wasn’t your normal PR launch, Stephanie and the athletes wanted to show us exactly how it’s done. This year Special Olympics Ireland will have… Read more »

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After a very successful nationwide competition, a Gala Getaways winner has been randomly selected in each of the participating stores. Winners will be contacted shortly. Thank you to all that participated making it a huge nationwide success.  

Scoil Mhuire Junior in Blakestown celebrated the opening of its new school geodome at an event held at the school this week. In 2019, Scoil Mhuire Junior won the Gala Gifts for Schools competition and was awarded a cash prize of €10,000 from Gala Retail as the winner of the ‘Best Eco Project’ category with… Read more »