Tensions high as deadline looms for Salthill cycleway submissions

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Tensions between the two sides in the debate over the proposed temporary cycleway for Salthill are rising, with just 24 hours left until the deadline closes for submissions on the proposal.

New GRETB facility to allow 400 apprenticeships in 2023

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Trade apprenticeships offered by the Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board will almost double next year, following the €5 million purchase of a new training facility in the city.

€1 million for Salthill cycleway 'beggars belief', says Lyons

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Cllr Donal Lyons says it ‘beggars belief’ that funding of one million euro is being allocated by the National Transport Authority for the temporary Salthill cycleway.

O’Reilly brands cycleway opponents as ‘councillors living in the past’

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

The inclusion of a ‘Neither/Do Nothing’ option in the online consultation for the proposed Salthill cycleway is a “cynical move”, supported by “councillors living in the past”.

Footpaths in east Galway set for improvement works

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Improvements to footpaths across Galway East are set to be carried out following the allocation of €7,875,000 in Active Travel Projects funding to the Galway County Council.

City will need 4,433 houses built by end of the decade

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Galway city will need 4,433 houses by 2028, and of these 1,575 will need to be social housing and 903 will have to be affordable housing, if the city is to seriously tackle the growing local authority waiting list.

Bloody Sunday memorial in Galway this weekend

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

This Sunday, January 30, marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most shocking atrocities of the Northern Ireland conflict - Bloody Sunday.

'For health and our children’s future' - mums support proposed Salthill cycleway

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

“You don’t see us cycling now, but you will,” was the message from a large group of Galway mothers who gathered on the Prom in support of the Salthill Cycleway last Friday.

Tüsla report finds most women in Galway live too far from any women’s refuge

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

While the Covid-19 pandemic has seen a 59 per cent increase in the number of domestic violence cases reported in Galway, most women in the city and county still live too far from any women’s refuge.

Connolly calls for in-person consultation on Salthill cycleway proposal

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Leisureland should be used as a venue to host in-person information workshops on the proposed cycle lanes development for Salthill.

Athenry footpath extensions get go ahead

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Extensions to the footpath on the Tuam Road in Athenry, at the entrance to the Garraí Glas housing estate, will begin in the coming weeks.

Crowe demands council scrap hike in day parking rates

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

The proposed hike in day parking rates from €5 to €6.50, scheduled to come into effect on February 1, must be cancelled.

Low paid workers should be entitled to the pandemic bonus payment, says McNelis

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Low paid workers who were on the frontlines during the worst of the Covid crisis, but who were not healthcare workers, should be entitled to the pandemic bonus payment.

Upgrade for footpaths in Headford

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Upgrade and improvement works to footpaths in Headford will be carried out after the town received €140,000 under the Active Travel Funding Allocations 2022.

Cheevers demands start date for building new toilets at Ballyloughane

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

A start date for construction of the new toilets and changing facilities at Ballyloughane beach needs to be made now by the Galway City Council.

Council unable to confirm if refurbishment work on tennis courts will be done ahead of summer

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

The Galway City Council is unable to confirm whether refurbishment work on some tennis courts will be completed ahead of the summer.

Funding for drainage works in Clonfert

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

A total of €90,000 in funding has been approved for the Galway County Council to begin works opening and cleaning the open drain network at Clonfert, near Ballinasloe.

Flexible and remote working needs to be facilitated by employers

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

In the early days of the pandemic, it was not unusual for people to suggest that 'afterwards' things would not - could not - go back to the old normal.

Local business leaders raise €253,814 for COPE Galway’s homeless service

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Fifty Galway business leaders have raised an incredible €253,814 from their participation in COPE Galway’s 10th annual business leaders’ Sleep Out over 12 hours on Shop Street last December.

NUI Galway and broadcasters to provide online course in journalism for TY students

Thu, Jan 27, 2022

Transition Year students in Irish-medium schools are being offered a unique insight to journalism in an online course with some of Ireland’s finest television, radio and digital journalists and broadcasters. NUI Galway, Nuacht RTÉ and TG4 are running the week-long Iriseoirí an lae Amárach programme in conjunction with An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) and the Department of Education. Over 400 students registered for the inaugural course in 2021.

The course is aimed at students in post-primary schools in Gaeltacht and other Irish-medium post-primary schools and will be held via Zoom between 1–3 March 2022.

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