The Circuit Court sits during four law terms each year: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas. The information below sets out the confirmed sittings for each county in the Western Circuit — covering Galway and Mayo — for 2025.
Galway Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Criminal sittings
- 20 January (4 weeks)
- 24 March (3 weeks)
- 6 May (4 weeks)
- 3 November (6 weeks)
District Court appeal sittings
- 18 March (4 days)
- 18 June (2 days)
- 16 December (3 days)
Civil sittings
- 21 January (4 days)
- 18 February (4 days)
- 25 March (3 days)
- 1 April (4 days)
- 13 May (4 days)
- 27 May (4 days)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 29 July (3 days)
- 8 October (2 days)
- 11 November (4 days)
- 18 November (3 days)
Sentencing sittings
- 14 January (4 days)
- 11 March (4 days)
- 29 April (3 days)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 24 June (4 days)
- 21 July (1 week)
- 28 October (4 days)
- 15 December (1 week)
Family sittings
- 28 January (3 days)
- 4 February (4 days)
- 18 March (4 days)
- 20 May (4 days)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 29 July (3 days)
- 25 November (4 days)
- 19 December (1 day)
Clifden sittings
- 4 March (1 day)
- 1 July (2 days)
- 14 October (2 days)
Loughrea – Civil and Family sittings
- 26 February (3 days)
- 10–11 July
- 22 October (3 days)
Loughrea – District Court appeal sittings
- 25 February
- 8 July
- 21 October
Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act sittings (ADMC)
- 21 February
- 2 May
- 20 June
- 10 October
- 14 November
- 12 December
Mayo Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Ballina sittings
- 12 March (2 days)
- 6 May (1 day)
- 17 July (2 days)
- 16 October (2 days)
Castlebar sittings – Civil
- 6 March (2 days)
Mayo Circuit Court sittings – 2026
Law terms: Hilary: 12 January – 27 March; Easter: 13 April – 21 May; Trinity: 03 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 5 October – 21 December.
Ballina sittings
- 11 March (2 days)
- 5 May (1 day)
- 16 July (2 days)
- 15 October (2 days)
Castlebar sittings – Civil
- 5 March (2 days)
- 10 March (1 day)
- 13 March (1 day)
- 28 April (2 days)
- 6 May (3 days)
- 2 July (2 days)
- 14 July (2 days)
- 1 December (1 week)
Castlebar sittings – Criminal
- 9 February
- 29 June (4 weeks)
- 5 October (5 weeks)
Castlebar sittings – District Course Appeals
- 30 April (2 days)
- 10 December (2 days)
Castlebar Family – District Course Appeals
- 13 January
- 21 April ( 1 year)
- 23rd June (1 week)
- 3 November (1 week)
- 8 December (2 days)
