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Frank Fahy — a passion for community welfare
Frank Fahy is a native of Menlo, on the outskirts of Galway City. He is a fluent Irish speaker. Frank has been a widower since 2021 and he has three grown-up children.
New ‘Hydrocurtain’ proves effective in tackling rubbish in Galway’s Eglinton Canal
Local and national media have been invited to attend a significant meeting discussing the groundbreaking ‘Hydrocurtain’ project implemented at Galway’s Eglinton Canal. The initiative proposed by Cllr. Frank Fahy as Chair of Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees has garnered attention for its remarkable success in addressing rubbish accumulation in the canal.
Fahy welcomes Hydrocurtain on Eglinton Canal
Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees recently appointed Clear Seas Aqua Ltd, to install a hydrocurtain on the Eglinton Canal at Ravens Terrace, beside Wolf Tone Bridge.
Cool return for city councillors
The Galway City Council’s first meeting of 2024 began with icy stares rather than heated debate this week.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty - A flawed document, or the means to achieve freedom?
As a direct consequence of the death of three National Army soldiers during a botched raid on the barracks in Headford on Sunday April 8 1923, six anti-Treaty young men, already in Galway jail, were selected for immediate execution. They had been arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Currandulla area six weeks earlier.
Remembering ‘Williameen’ McDonagh
We have two photographs today of groups from Our Lady's Boys' Club. Firstly, a club rugby team that made history by winning the Connacht Junior League for the first time in 1959, and secondly, some club members taken on the annual camp in Lough Cutra Castle, c1956.
JPC off to rocky start as councillors feel ‘untrusted’
This week’s meeting of the Joint Policing Committee of Galway City Council got off to a stormy start when councillors complained that they felt untrusted by Gardai because the crime stats reports normally furnished before a meeting would not be circulated until afterwards.
New exhibition at Galway City Museum marks century since vote on Anglo-Irish Treaty
Today June 16 marks the centenary anniversary of the general election in which Irish voters had the opportunity to vote for candidates who supported or rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which granted Dominion Status, similar to that of Canada and South Africa, to 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland.
Galway’s first Freeman
On August 31, 1939, Dr Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland, signed his name in Irish in a small leather-bound book as the first Freeman of Galway.
