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In a week when the next president of the USA appointed an official to oversee an expulsion of undocumented migrants, Galway City councillors were celebrating the life of a man who dedicated his to regularising illegal immigrants in America.

Brewing discontent and disagreement within the ruling pact which dominates Galway City Council spilled into the public domain this week, with the mayor forced to use his casting vote to pass an increase in Local Property Tax.

Galway County Councillors voted by 32 to 6 to increase Local Property Tax by 15 per cent in late September, a hike calculated to net an extra €2.4 million income per year for the local authority from 2025.

Independent city councillor Declan McDonnell has welcomed confirmation that work is due to commence on upgrading the road surfaces in McDermott Avenue and Tone Avenue in Mervue.

Public bins cannot be emptied overnight in Galway city centre because local authority staff are fearful of physical and verbal assault by late night revellers.

Public bins cannot be emptied overnight in Galway city centre because local authority staff are fearful of physical and verbal assault by late night revellers.

Charging hotel guests across the city a one Euro per night tourism tax could net an estimated extra €2 million per year for the city’s finances.

The Northern and Western Regional Assembly (NWRA) has welcomed the designation of Ireland’s Northern and Western region as a Regional Innovation Valley (RIV) under the European Commission’s New European Innovation Agenda initiative.

Count centres are like catnip for political reporters: we just can’t resist visiting them. And politicians – usually button-lipped around pol corrs – tend to want to chat about everything under the sun when ballots are being sorted, as the uniquely democratic adrenalin of fear and anticipation courses through their party-political veins.