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A public talk on flooding in Galway will take place at 8pm on Tuesday April 14 in the Galway Bay Hotel, where Niall Murphy of the Green Party will introduce a number of expert speakers.

In his Galway Advertiser article of July 25, John Connolly TD sets out his arguments that the proposed Galway Ring Road is needed to move the traffic out of the city centre, so that public transport solutions can be implemented.

As temporary repairs to sea wall damage in Oranmore caused by November’s Storm Debi are completed this week, a local councillor has slammed delays and again called for permanent infrastructure.

In a move signalling a significant change of approach from Galway City Council toward large employers, Boston Scientific has been asked to plan for more cyclists and bus users rather than just build extra carparking.

Heritage body An Taisce has queried plans by Boston Scientific to build two new carparks at its Ballybrit campus, while Galway County Council has also raised concerns.

Storm Debi may have set new high water levels in Galway last week, but expert analysis shows city and county could have faced floods more than 2ft higher if tides had been at seasonal peaks.

With concerns growing that expansion of Galway’s eastern suburbs will be hampered by poor drainage infrastructure, Uisce Éireann has promised revised solutions for the district’s over-burdened waste water system.

The Galway Planning Committee of An Taisce say that ‘misleading’ reporting by Galway City Council via its Facebook page regarding the water quality of Ballyloughane Beach on Friday, August 4, put bathers at risk of contracting E.Coli and Intestinal Enterococci.