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Counter protestors outnumbered anti-migrant agitators ten-to-one in Galway last weekend, at an event organised to “reject” Helen Ogbu as the city’s elected mayor.

A €2 million rooftop helipad will cap University Hospital Galway’s €4 billion redevelopment, despite the HSE’s controversial purchase of Shantalla parkland to build a ground-level heliport.

Thirteen years after Galway City Council lent a piece of parkland to the HSE for six months, next week councillors will be asked to sell almost four acres of that park for an air ambulance base to serve the west of Ireland.

There was hardly a dry eye among councillors in the chamber after Mayor Helen Ogbu was finished with them.

Labour Councillor John McDonagh in Galway City has called for urgent action to tackle rising energy costs and support struggling households following new figures from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) showing that almost 500,000 customers are now in electricity and gas bill arrears.

Councillor John McDonagh has called on the City Council to undertake an urgent review of what he has described as an “upstairs–downstairs” approach to the Housing Aid for Older People Scheme, following concerns that have come to light in recent weeks.

Galway Rovers Rugby Football Club first played competitively in 1899. In 1907, they won the Connacht Junior Cup. They disbanded after that, probably due to World War I, but the club was revived in 1931 by a man named John L Sullivan. In the early days, they were given a clubhouse in the old Galway Steamship Company. Initially they wore green jerseys, but later they changed to colour to black and were often referred to as “The Blacks”. The first team to represent the club was made up entirely of men who worked on the docks, so inevitably, they became known as “The Dockers”.

Helen Ogbu was formally endorsed by the Labour Party at a heavily attended selection convention this week, to chants of “Gaillimh Abú, Gallimh Ogbu” by almost 100 supporters.

Galway City Councillor John McDonagh has welcomed confirmation that funding has been approved for the Green Area Upgrades at Sliding Rock Park, Shantalla, following the project’s success in the Participatory Budget 2025 process.

Left-wing councillors failed to convene an emergency sitting of Galway city council this week to discuss military neutrality and the Occupied Territories Bill before year end.