Moving About Galway is an absolute must. It's the fastest growing city in Europe and acts like it, it's vibrant and exciting. I was just travelling through and spent six months there. A little known fact is that there is a City Link Bus that runs from Galway to Dublin, stopping at O'Connell St and the airport. It picks up passengers in Galway at a car park on Forster Street just beyond the train station.
Condoms are now available from all pharmacies and almost all pubs.
Boxty has generally been dropped from restaurant menus, since nobody likes it. As usual, there's always some new 'traditional' food to replace it. Irish soda bread is highly popular, but US visitors miss out, mistakenly believing that it's the same as the US raisin bread of the same name. People who make traditional Halloween-type barm brack deliberately include a gold ring, a stick, a pea, and other small objects, since these have a traditional significance. Finding one of these is a way of telling your future.