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In 2019, Eamon Ryan TD suggested reintroducing wolves in rural areas. With wild open spaces, forests, mountains, and a plentiful supply of livestock, Mayo would seem to offer an ideal habitat.

It is clear that neither the executive of Galway City Council nor city councillors are willing to deliver available solutions to keeping small, soft, bodies of tiny humans safe when cycling to school. The debacle over a teeny temporary cycleway in Salthill shows the need for system change.

Westmeath County Council are set to receive over €12.8 million for regional and local roads, according to local Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke.

Fines for motorists caught parking on footpaths and in bus lanes and cycle tracks will double from €40 to €80.

Local Fine Gael Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, has called on the National Transport Authority (NTA) to introduce a flexi-commuter ticket, in line with the commitment they made to him last year.

Fine Gael TD Ciaran Cannon has called on Eamon Ryan, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to immediately intervene in the ongoing saga of a wind farm development at Derrybrien, Co. Galway, on foot of Tuesday’s refusal by An Bord Pleanala to grant retrospective consent for the wind farm.

A number of businesses in east mayo that are trying to expand are finding it difficult to do so, due to poor broadband in the area, the February meeting of the Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District was told this week.

People you see cycling along our stunning Galway Bay coast tend to be brave and are mostly male, middle-aged and able-bodied. We gave out free rechargeable bike lights one evening last week on the Prom and not one woman cycled by. You do not see the people who would like to cycle but feel frightened by high traffic volumes and parking, and the ever-present threat of being ‘doored - women, teenagers, disabled people, children.

The inclusion of a ‘Neither/Do Nothing’ option in the online consultation for the proposed Salthill cycleway is a “cynical move”, supported by “councillors living in the past”.

Traffic congestion in Galway “will get worse before it gets better”, which is why “significant investment” in public transport is vital to combat the personal, environmental, and economic toll gridlock is taking on the city.