{"id":204147,"date":"2025-12-26T01:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204147\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:44:11","slug":"christmas-message-2025-galwaybayfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/204147\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas\u00a0Message 2025 | GalwayBayFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Galway Bay fm Christmas\u00a0Messages\u00a0Programme, which features Galway&#8217;s civic and religious leaders, has been running continuously for the last thirty seven Christmasses, and is now a festive fixture in Galway&#8217;s cultural calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Head of News Bernadette Prendergast, it is a chance to reflect on the year gone by and to hear, in a different way, from the people who represent so many of you across the city and county. They will also share their Christmas memories, with a few funny tales along the way.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a few breaks for music with the &#8216;Desert Island Christmas Discs&#8217; as selected by our guests &#8211; Mayor of Galway Mike Cubbard; Cathaoirleach of Galway County Council David Collins; Bishop of Galway Michael Duignan; Very Reverend Lynda Peilow,\u00a0Rector of St Nicholas Collegiate Church Galway\u00a0and representing the United Church Galway, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Reverend Helen Freeburn.<\/p>\n<p>Throw another log on the fire, make yourself comfy and enjoy some chat and music.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas-nbsp-message-2025.png\" class=\"max-w-full w-full hover:scale-110 group-hover:scale-110 transition-all duration-300 object-cover w-full h-[148px] not-process rounded-l-md\" width=\"795\" height=\"795\" figureclass=\"aspect-square rounded-l-md max-h-36\"  alt=\"Christmas\u00a0Message 2025\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Galway Bay FM News<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk297662\" title=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybayfm.ie\/galway-bay-fm-news-desk\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galwaybayfm.ie\/galway-bay-fm-news-desk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Galway Bay FM News<\/a>\u00a0provides trusted, comprehensive coverage and analysis of local, national, and international stories.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in every hour, Monday to Friday, 7am to 6pm, with breakfast updates at 7:30 and 8:30.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the multi-award-winning FYI Galway from 5pm for all your news and sport, along with traffic and business information.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"LPlnk184013\" title=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ie\/app\/galway-bay-fm\/id517073928\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/ie\/app\/galway-bay-fm\/id517073928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"5\">Download the Galway Bay FM app<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest stories on the go and stay connected on <a id=\"LPlnk892129\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GalwayBayfmNews\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GalwayBayfmNews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">Facebook<\/a>, <a id=\"LPlnk538608\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galwaybayfm\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/galwaybayfm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"7\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and <a id=\"LPlnk818656\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Galwaybayfmnews\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Galwaybayfmnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"8\">X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Galway Bay fm Christmas\u00a0Messages\u00a0Programme, which features Galway&#8217;s civic and religious leaders, has been running continuously for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[114583,146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-204147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-christmas-message-2025","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}