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Uncollected litter and cheerful schoolchildren enjoying a surprise day-off swirled through Galway’s windblown city centre on Wednesday, as the country braced for its first major, public sector strike in two decades.

Thirty-eight businesses across Salthill and the city centre are set to share €275,000 in grants to tidy up tired facades, smarten shop windows and rejuvenate scruffy streetscapes.

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 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.

The latest figures from the Department of Housing show 5,659 children in emergency accommodation, a 13% increase from July 2025.

Minister Seán Canney has welcomed tweaks to flood relief schemes but is hesitant to call for Galway city’s sea defences to be listed as ‘critical infrastructure’.

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.

In response to public outcry over viral images of rubbish strewn all over Salthill’s beaches during the May heatwave, the city council has planned a proactive litter response ahead of a hot weekend.

It seems tourists have the high ground in Galway while the residents are Anekin Skywalker. In a study by the Galway Advertiser, one-third of shops in the main shopping district are geared towards tourists.

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