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The lack of availability and reliability of public transport in County Galway was one of the major cause for concern raised by councillors at the first plenary meeting of Galway County Council on Monday, July 22, resulting in renewed calls for a meeting between the council and the National Transport Authority (NTA).

At Monday’s meeting of Galway County Council with officials of the NTA, Cllr James Charity confirmed to the meeting that Local Link and NTA had issued confirmation that a tender for a new bus service for the North Galway region was due to issue in January 2023.

Lack of action on Emergency Department upgrade ‘shocking and unacceptable’

It is with some bemusement that I noted the recent contributions in Seanad Éireann regarding the future of local authority arrangements in Galway and, in particular, the voicing of opposition to the amalgamation of the Galway county and city councils.

A basic lack of manners and an absence of cop-on is what drives people to think they can open their car windows and throw out litter on the roads and ditches of the county, this week’s meeting of the Galway County Council Joint Policing Committee was told.

There is no point waiting two weeks to tell the gardai about boy racers doing doughnuts on the main roads, the Chief Supt told the Galway County Council Joint Policing Committee when it met online this week.

Galway County Council this week issued a statement on and an apology for their role in the administration of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. The authority, at their meeting held in Corrandulla on Monday issued the following statements to councillors and assembled media.

Marty Walsh, the Mayor of Boston, who has been nominated to the post of Labor Secretary by US President-elect Joe Biden, has been invited to visit Galway during his term of office.

Fears that the Government will impose a county-wide lockdown on Galway have, throughout this week, hardened to a resigned certainty, after hundreds of students congregated in the Spanish Arch area in defiance of public health guidelines and social distancing requirements.