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Galway Bay is widely celebrated as one of the region’s greatest natural resources, a place that belongs to everyone yet remains inaccessible to many. For Moycullen resident Kay Diviney, a member of the Gentle Swimmers group, the bay represents both liberation and limitation. Kay has Multiple Sclerosis and is a wheelchair user, yet each week she makes the journey to the water across from the Galway Bay Hotel, supported by her husband Cathal and fellow swimmers. What awaits her is a powerful form of therapy, but one that is not reliably within her reach.

The constituency of Galway West must be central to a Fianna Fáil internal double review on its disastrous presidential campaign, and how it ran last November’s general election.

News of the initiative comes as expectation in senior government circles is growing that An Bord Pleanála will initiate a second oral hearing on environmental aspects of the planning permission for the N6 City Ring Road.

The number of domestic abuse calls made in County Galway has increased from 2,656 to 2,955 in the last year — an 11.2% increase in the county.

So, here we are, on the other side of the election. The posters are being taken down, the heated debates are cooling, and negotiations are in full swing to shape the next government. After a weekend spent in countless community halls and polling stations, the excitement of the election has been thoroughly satisfied, if not entirely exhausted. Personally, I wouldn’t be eager to endure another one until we’re approaching the latter part of this decade.

On the day the vote tallies began in Headford for the 2020 General Election, I vividly remember seeing a young and determined Louis O’Hara tirelessly working the phones. He was calling friends and colleagues, brimming with excitement and cautious optimism, surprised that he had a real shot at securing a seat in Dáil Éireann.

Although Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald gave her only two hours to prepare to take the chair of the most powerful committee in the country last week, Galway West TD Mairead Farrell says she is ready.

Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) is calling on the Government to commit to tackling inequalities in the education sector by supporting the priorities laid out in the #SupportYourLocalETB campaign. Representatives from Galway and Roscommon ETB met with members of the Oireachtas at a briefing event in Buswells Hotel, Dublin, recently where they expressed their concerns.

Galway social enterprises Bounce Back Recycling (BBR) and Bounce Back Upcycling (BBU) hosted an open day event on Saturday, June 15 at Ballybrit Industrial Estate. The event was part of Traveller Pride and marked the relocation of BBU, next door to their sister enterprise BBR. Mairead Farrell TD was in attendance as were newly elected city councillors, Helen Ogbu (Labour), Shane Forde (Fine Gael), and Aisling Burke (Sinn Féin).

Athlone student Ryan Dolan was one of just 24 teenagers from all over the island of Ireland to be presented with a Rotary Youth Leadership Development certificate at the European Parliament’s offices in Dublin recently.