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TUNES AND TREATS Few visitors leave Galway without lightening their wallets along the cobblestone pedestrian thoroughfare known as Shop Street.
These apply to goods bought or hired from a shop, street market, mail order catalogue or doorstep seller.
Meet Conor outside Lynch's Castle in Shop Street, named after one of the 13 legendary tribes who founded Galway.
In Taafe's pub on Shop Street the saloon was littered with betting slips, fresh ones at the bar, torn ones on the floor.
The shops are largely chains and souvenir hawkers, but it's worth a stroll to see the array of buskers displaying their talents at bagpipes, fiddles and U2 covers — and for a stop at McCambridge's (38-39 Streettreet; 353-91-562-259; mccambridges.com), a family-owned deli that has been around since 1925 but features an inventory fit for modern foodies.
BOOK STOP As Shop Street runs into William Street, pause to sit on the bench built into a statue of Oscar Wilde and his Baltic contemporary Eduard Vilde (spelled Wilde on the statue, for consistency's sake), a gift from the Estonian city Tartu.
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