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Young people from across Ireland came together at PorterShed in Galway for FutureHack, a student-led hackathon challenging 13 to 19-year-olds to develop practical ideas for making Galway a better place to live.

A €2 million rooftop helipad will cap University Hospital Galway’s €4 billion redevelopment, despite the HSE’s controversial purchase of Shantalla parkland to build a ground-level heliport.

The point-blank gunshot to his head cemented Helen Ogbu’s crushing fear her husband had been assassinated. He was not the random, tragic victim of a robbery gone wrong.

Cuirt Eigis in Ballybane comes alive in the summer, but the fate of 14 families living there has become a political hot potato, with local reps disagreeing on how best to assist tenants who must leave by the autumn.

The plan was approved at the local party’s AGM last week, where 50 delegates from across Galway re-elected former city councillor, Mark Lohan, as its chairperson for the sixth year running.

Left-wing councillors failed to convene an emergency sitting of Galway city council this week to discuss military neutrality and the Occupied Territories Bill before year end.

As it unfolded that Catherine Connolly would walk the presidential election, politicos began plotting for a Galway West by-election which must fill her vacant Dáil seat by May 11.

They say all politics is local, but in Renmore, councillors are at daggers drawn over a small strip of footpath.

Councillor Peter Keane finished up his stint as Galway’s first citizen last week, and was replaced by Councillor Mike Cubbard.

The row stems from a statement issued by Councillor Shane Forde (FG), claiming that elected representatives across the east side of Galway have failed to sponsor public realm projects in their neighbourhoods, such as recent repairs to a footpath in Renmore.