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Councillors count their blessings in city count centre
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Count centres are like catnip for political reporters: we just can’t resist visiting them. And politicians – usually button-lipped around pol corrs – tend to want to chat about everything under the sun when ballots are being sorted, as the uniquely democratic adrenalin of fear and anticipation courses through their party-political veins.
City of Tribes diversifies its representation
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Fianna Fáil’s Josie Forde, a first-time candidate and the party’s only female runner in Galway, is one of six new councillors who survived the field of 52 runners on a day when her party lost its position as the largest on the local authority, going down from five to four seats. Her 665 first preferences got her in on the 14th count.
Frank Fahy — a passion for community welfare
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Frank Fahy is a native of Menlo, on the outskirts of Galway City. He is a fluent Irish speaker. Frank has been a widower since 2021 and he has three grown-up children.
New ‘Hydrocurtain’ proves effective in tackling rubbish in Galway’s Eglinton Canal
Local and national media have been invited to attend a significant meeting discussing the groundbreaking ‘Hydrocurtain’ project implemented at Galway’s Eglinton Canal. The initiative proposed by Cllr. Frank Fahy as Chair of Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees has garnered attention for its remarkable success in addressing rubbish accumulation in the canal.
Fahy welcomes Hydrocurtain on Eglinton Canal
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Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees recently appointed Clear Seas Aqua Ltd, to install a hydrocurtain on the Eglinton Canal at Ravens Terrace, beside Wolf Tone Bridge.
Cool return for city councillors
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The Galway City Council’s first meeting of 2024 began with icy stares rather than heated debate this week.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty - A flawed document, or the means to achieve freedom?
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As a direct consequence of the death of three National Army soldiers during a botched raid on the barracks in Headford on Sunday April 8 1923, six anti-Treaty young men, already in Galway jail, were selected for immediate execution. They had been arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Currandulla area six weeks earlier.
Remembering ‘Williameen’ McDonagh
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We have two photographs today of groups from Our Lady's Boys' Club. Firstly, a club rugby team that made history by winning the Connacht Junior League for the first time in 1959, and secondly, some club members taken on the annual camp in Lough Cutra Castle, c1956.