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A planning application has been lodged seeking permission to construct a large-scale solar energy farm on 86 hectares of private land in rural south Galway. Titled Shessy Solar Farm, the project, put forward by renewable energy developer BNRG, would span the townlands of Cahercarney, Shessy North and South, and Lydacan.

A community group from Gort, Co. Galway, has been praised for its project on keeping the name of their town alive.

Students from Gort Community School are leading a campaign for a safer cycling route along the Ennis Road (R458) and the Galway Road (R458), which will help protect students and local cyclists. The campaign calls for a dedicated cycle lane to be sectioned off along the hard shoulder of these regional roads, continuing the Labane cycle lane into Gort and extending all the way to Loughcutra National School.

Nigel and Magaly Murray of Gran Gran’s Foods are producing their own award-winning, high quality, foods while supporting Irish artisan producers from their recently opened pantry shop in the Burren lowlands, along the Wild Atlantic Way, beside Keane's Garden Centre and the post office in Kilcolgan, County Galway.

Fáilte Ireland has unveiled the first viewing points along the Burren Discovery Trail, a new looped route off the Wild Atlantic Way designed to encourage visitors to explore more and stay longer in the Burren.

Fine Gael TD Ciaran Cannon TD has welcomed an announcementby Failte Ireland that the Burren Discovery Loop will go live in January.

Since lockdown was lifted I’ve been travelling along the highways and byways on my way to clients’ gardens, and the wildflowers along the roadside verges never fail to take my breath away. In a ‘normal’ year, they are as much a marker of the seasons as the leaves on the trees, from wild primroses in April, to cow parsley and foxgloves in May, and the hundreds of nodding heads of the dog daisies in June. How precious they seem this year, when travel restrictions kept us confined, apart from daily walks, to whatever we had growing in our own gardens! There are still more to look forward to as summer unfolds, especially here in the Burren lowlands, with sky-blue scabious, aromatic wild marjoram and many others still waiting to flower, before the multitude of golden grass seed heads takes over in late summer.

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