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The city’s Mayor has collected enough signatures to schedule an emergency session of Galway city council, while calls are growing for a separate, public meeting to discuss rebranding the local authority.

A forester employed to clearfell Merlin Park Woods has discovered fungal rot in standing evergreens, potentially slashing its commercial timber value.

The Mayor of the City of Galway has formally demanded the city’s ancient coat of arms be included in any rebranding of the city council.

City Hall unveiled a new logo today, the first redesign in decades since its current ‘G’ - paired with the city’s sixteenth century coat of arms - was designed in 1984 for the city’s 500th anniversary, and refreshed in a 2007 rebranding.

The Galway City Council’s biodiversity team is installing one hopper of nuts per hectare of forest its contractors began clear-felling this week, as part of a controversial plan to rejuvenate the city’s largest urban woodlands after sections were devastated by Storm Éowyn last winter.

Gardai are requesting information on a number of damage and theft incidents in the county and asking the public to plan ahead for traffic restrictions this week.

Galway City Council welcomed Marc Miller MP, Canada’s Minister for Identity and Culture, to City Hall last week as part of his visit to Ireland.

“We’re dealing with questions of identity, questions about the language, and about the position of the language today. And we’re looking at those questions in a humorous, engaging way that will get people thinking about them.”

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.

Gardaí are monitoring online death threats against the Mayor of Galway while a number of city institutions have disabled social media comments on posts referencing Helen Ogbu.