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There was high drama in Dublin Council in the course of the past few months in a will-they-won’t-they game of chicken on the plans to put bus gates on Dublin’s north and south quays. Dublin City Council with support of the elected councillors agreed to prioritise buses on certain sections of the roads in an attempt to improve transport in the city centre.

A new five-year public health campaign to build a healthier food environment and protect children’s health has been launched today by the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Colm Burke, TD. The campaign from Safefood aims to raise awareness of the unhealthy food environment, how this is harmful to children’s health, and why it needs to change.

Community Activist, advocate for gender equity and diversity, and Labour Party Candidate for Galway City East in the coming Local Elections, Helen Ogbu, extends a cordial invitation to the upcoming symposium titled ‘SHEroes – Promoting Women & Diversity in Politics’. This event is being organized following a successful grant application to Galway City Council, in collaboration with the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage and will take place on April 17 at 10:30am to 2:pm, in the Menlo Park Hotel.

The Government is encouraging members of the local public to make sure they are correctly registered to vote on checktheregister.ie, as the date for the local and European elections was formally confirmed, the casting of votes to take place on Friday, June 7.

It is time for Galway City Council to look at applying a hotel room tax on all visitors as this would be a sensible revenue raising measure that could go directly into the delivery of services in Galway City. So said Mark Lohan, Sinn Féin candidate in this summer’s Galway City Council elections.

The recently opened BIA Innovator Campus in Athenry, the community-based ‘Healthy Islands’ initiative, an innovative Corofin start-up, and a pilot scheme aimed at improving energy saving and management in County Galway’s social housing stock have been named winners at the 2024 All-Ireland Community and Council Awards.

The recently opened BIA Innovator Campus in Athenry, the community-based ‘Healthy Islands’ initiative, an innovative Corofin start-up, and a pilot scheme aimed at improving energy saving and management in County Galway’s social housing stock have been named winners at the 2024 All-Ireland Community and Council Awards.

Schools across Galway will be fully funded to install up to 16 solar panels on their roof under a new Government scheme.

Galway County Council has picked up one of the main accolades at the Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards 2023 for its innovative digital project that mapped over 40,000 graveyard memorial records across County Galway and made them publicly available online.

Visitors to Dublin can enjoy some extra help touring the city after Dublin City Council announced the launch of a new augmented-reality (AR) mapping feature that allows users of the Dublin Discovery Trails app to open up a 3D map of the capital on their device and allow them to explore the city in a new, innovative way.