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City budget meetings are either boring or fractious, but this one was a political masterclass.

Next week’s annual budget meeting in City Hall is expected to be a brutal clash between officials and councillors on proposed rates hikes.

Galway City Council has vowed to sort out the shambolic car-parking situation across town.

Galway city manager Leonard Cleary has still not decided on a proposed rent increase for council house tenants which received widespread criticism from local politicians when first mooted in June.

Councillors will be shown a design animation at their monthly plenary meeting next week, a fortnight after they first toured the building on the Monivea Road purchased by the previous city council.

“I’m young enough” he maintains, as the 53-year-old steeples his hands thoughtfully, sitting in the boardroom in City Hall. This prayer-like posture comes naturally for an ordained deacon of the Catholic church, who ranks his family, faith and a community-development based approach to his work, as the three pillars of his worldview.

Almost 80 activists opposing the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians greeted Taoiseach Micheál Martin as he unveiled the €550 million Crown Square development in Mervue last Friday afternoon.

They say a canny Conamaraman could sell sand to the Arabs, but unfortunately he can’t ship granite to the Gambians.

Agents for Galway City Council and Galway County Council will advertise for ‘expressions of interest’ in the 118 acre site in the coming days to ‘test the market’ before councillors are asked to vote on any potential sale.

A list of top priorities for Galway city and its hinterland were presented to the minister with responsibility for planning and local government this week.