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City Hall on College Road will be demolished after Galway City Council completes its move to Crown Square next year.

Years of simmering discontent about how central government funds the city council reached boiling point this week, when councillors roasted Galway’s TDs and senators for failing to champion the regional capital’s local authority.

The Mayor of Galway City, Councillor Helen Ogbu, has voiced her support for the Cork Call to Action on Climate and Health, joining more than 100 mayors, deputy mayors and elected representatives from 60 cities across 22 European countries in committing to local action on the growing climate and health crisis.

The housing crisis persists, and homelessness is up in Galway and nationally. Tens of thousands of uncounted, hidden homeless - couch surfers and over-occupied households - remain precipitously close to sleeping rough. As autumn winds strip leaves from trees, the tented shanty towns at the edges of the city’s parks and wastelands hove into view. To gain an insight, the Galway Advertiser slept rough last week, tagging along with the Simon Community’s industrious fundraisers, service users, SimonSoc university group and a chilly mayor of Galway sleeping outside for her very first time.

Labour Councillor Helen Ogbu has demand urgent action to prevent family homelessness and strengthen housing supports in Galway

Around 50 protestors picketed City Hall on College Road, Wednesday evening, as councillors met inside to discuss Galway City Council's contentious rebranding plan.

For the first time since 2024, members of the public interested in volunteering are being invited to the Galway City Volunteer Recruitment Fair in the Salthill Hotel on Sunday October 11 between 2pm and 5pm. There will be up to 40 charities and community organisations from across the city at the Fair, which is being organised by Galway Volunteer Centre. At the last Fair in February 2024, approximately 1000 people attended the event to speak to organisations about the work that they do and the volunteer roles that they are trying to fill.

The city’s Mayor has collected enough signatures to schedule an emergency session of Galway city council, while calls are growing for a separate, public meeting to discuss rebranding the local authority.

Galway will welcome senior European policymakers, business leaders, regional authorities, researchers and enterprise agencies this autumn as it hosts a flagship conference examining the future of regional competitiveness, innovation and sustainable economic growth across Europe.

Galway Public Libraries is honoured to announce the donation of the Peadar O’Dowd Collection, comprising 110 original drawings of archaeological and historical monuments and sites from Galway city and county, together with sketchbooks, notebooks and related material documenting decades of heritage research and interpretation.