Galway Bay fm newsroom - Final preparations are underway for the Claddagh Traditional Boat Festival, which gets underway in the city next week.
The event will showcase a variety of traditional Galway Hookers and Gleoiteogs, as well as 2 Viking longboats.
Badoiri an Cladaig members are currently building fourteen vessels, each representing a tribe of Galway, in time for the 2020 Capital of Culture designation.
The boat festival kicks off next Wednesday at the Claddagh basin.
