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Galway City Council paid the county €7.3 million last year for shared fire, library, civil defence, coronial, water safety and other services, but it was landed with a much heftier demand last week.

So desperate phone calls were placed, and last Friday afternoon, a showdown of sorts occurred around the city manager’s conference table on the top floor of City Hall on College Road.

The future of the Pálás cinema should be decided by Galway City Council before Christmas after several interested parties pitched their proposals last week.

By December this year, the €8.4 million tax-payer funded, purpose-built cinema building will have been without an operator for 22 months in Galway – one of only 30 cities worldwide to be designated a UNESCO City of Film.

Uncollected litter and cheerful schoolchildren enjoying a surprise day-off swirled through Galway’s windblown city centre on Wednesday, as the country braced for its first major, public sector strike in two decades.

Thirty-eight businesses across Salthill and the city centre are set to share €275,000 in grants to tidy up tired facades, smarten shop windows and rejuvenate scruffy streetscapes.

City Hall on College Road will be demolished after Galway City Council completes its move to Crown Square next year.

Years of simmering discontent about how central government funds the city council reached boiling point this week, when councillors roasted Galway’s TDs and senators for failing to champion the regional capital’s local authority.

Businesses and residents in Salthill are urging Galway City Council to retain the existing Recreation and Amenity zoning of the former Tourist Office site, amid proposals to rezone the land for commercial and industrial use.

Around 50 protestors picketed City Hall on College Road, Wednesday evening, as councillors met inside to discuss Galway City Council's contentious rebranding plan.