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Sleeping rough for ninth annual COPE Galway sleep-out
Twenty-nine Galwegians will once again don their warmest coats and hats to sleep out on Shop Street for the homeless.
Disability group calls on City Hall to appoint full time access officer
A demand for the Galway City Council to appoint a Full-Time Access Officer, and for the full implementation of The Equal Status Act, Public Sector Duty, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, will be made today.
Roads around Scoil Iognáid are pedestrianised for new ‘School Streets’ project
Scoil Iognáid pupils and their parents took to the streets on Monday to mark their school becoming the first in Galway to take part in the ‘School Streets’ pilot project.
Galway - a city in transition?
So here it is, the news that Galway city and county are lodged “within a province that from a spatial planning point of view, is full of low density housing, is totally reliant on private transport (the car) and which is in need of transforming to using rail and public transport” to become a “high density city and to support cycling and walking?”
Government support vital to keeping city council deficit to a minimum, says CEO
The intervention of the Government in funding Galway City Council played the key role in ensuring the city deficit is just a fraction of what it might have been, Galway City Council CEO Brendan McGrath said this week.
Council to cease collecting bags of grass cuttings from estates
Grass cuttings and felled branches from neighbourhoods clean-ups will no longer be collected by the Galway City Council, the council chief executive, Brendan McGrath, has confirmed.
Council to carry out final collection of bin bags with green cuttings
The Galway City Council will this week collect the "hundreds of bags filled with green cuttings" which have been "left out on green areas in a number of city estates" in recent weeks.
Eliminate the vape, say councillors
City councillors are supporting calls for a ban on vaping in all public buildings including schools, hospitals, and all workplaces throughout is the city.
Galway voters may directly elect mayor in 2024 Local Elections.
Citizens may have the opportunity to elect the mayor of the city in 2024 after city councillors backed a motion calling on the Minister for Local Government Darragh O'Brien to hold a plebiscite vote for a directly elected mayor with executive functions on Monday evening.
Closure of Leisureland pool must be reversed says Connolly
The decision to close the public swimming pool in Leisureland is simply a step too far and must be reversed, that is according to Galway West TD Catherine Connolly.
