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A county councillor has lashed out at the actions of some city councillors who have moved to restrict the number of concerts at Galway Airport, saying their argument that it will impact tckets sales at the Arts festival held a month earlier 'do not stack up.'

The City Council risk assessment process utilised when processing the housing of sex offenders is clearly not working, a former mayor of the city has claimed.

It may not have been the worst storm flood of Galway’s medieval city centre, but residents, business owners and emergency workers all agree that Storm Debi was certainly one of the swiftest.

Homeless people could not be offered temporary shelter as Storm Debi approached Galway due to local authority staffing shortages, the Galway Advertiser has learned.

With the current state of the promenade’s walkways raising concerns, city councillor, Peter Keane, has called upon Galway City Council to ensure that funds for new surfacing are allocated in the council’s forthcoming budget for 2024.

Independent City Councillor Terry O’Flaherty has called on Galway City Council to carry out a much-needed facelift to the ‘shabby’ exterior of the Walter Macken Place flats complex in Mervue.

Galway City Council will become the first local authority in the country to eliminate road diesel in its larger fleet, by transitioning to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a renewable fuel source. HVO Eliminates up to 90% of net Carbon Dioxide emissions and reduces harmful pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide and particulate matter, which can cause asthma and impaired lung function and can make it difficult to breath for some of our citizens.

A secret report into housing across Galway has revealed a shocking failure of the City Council to reach even half its build target for social housing for 2022.

Galway city centre won its second-ever silver medal at the SuperValu Tidy Towns awards ceremony held in Croke Park last week.