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A trade union representing city council staff has called for a public vote to assess Galwegians’ opinions on moving City Hall from College Road to Mervue.

Galway city councillors have voted unanimously to approve a memorial in Eyre Square for the late Ronnie O’Gorman, founder of the Galway Advertiser newspaper.

Specsavers Galway has announced a major sponsorship deal with the Galway branch of the Irish Soccer Referees’ Society (ISRS). The partnership will see all four Galway Specsavers stores (Headford Road, Eyre Square, Knocknacarra and Tuam) provide the referees with vibrant new kits through to the end of the 2026 football season.

Galway City Council has invited representatives of the Galway Culture Company to attend a full council meeting to explain its activities to councillors since Galway won the European city of Culture competition in 2020.

Members of the political pact running the Galway City Council were split when it came to raising Local Property Tax in October, but differences were put aside last week when it voted for a 2025 budget including two tax hikes.

If Galway’s City Council members do not hammer out a 2025 budget by midnight this Sunday, December 15, the Minister for Local Government may sack the city’s councillors and replace them with an unelected commissioner instead.

Galway Bohemians became the first Irish grassroots team to play in Africa when they participated in the first Irish-African soccer tournament in Morocco last month.

Grainne Seoige’s celebrity drew attention to the Galway West constituency last week, but it was Mairéad Farrell, Catherine Connolly and Hildegarde Naughton who stole the show.

We concur, but don’t forget Grealish, with his stronghold centred on ‘Greater Carnmore’ (population 9,000), was elected on the eighth count in 2020, alongside Mairéad Farrell (SF) and Ó Cuív, after eliminated Labour, Independent, Green Party and Fianna Fáil candidates' votes were distributed between the top three.

Although not designed to reduce traffic congestion within Galway city, a bypass or orbital road route at the edge of the city has become a rallying cry of commuters stuck in Galway city’s seemingly endless traffic jams. It will go from Coolagh to out past Furbo on the Coast Road via a new bridge near Menlo.