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The confirmed entry of the Moycullen man has tightened odds in the Dáil race, as he is expected to draw votes from the same Connemara pool that bookies’ favourite, Councillor Noel Thomas (II), relies on, along with Oughterard candidate, Councillor Thomas Welby (Ind).

What is the collective noun for military chaplains?

Car parking was a major theme of Galway City Council’s final meeting of the year, but the authority’s full agenda was not completed after byelaws were updated for the first time since 2009.

Nurses are planning strike action at University Hospital Galway because of unsafe working conditions at its Emergency Department.

Residents of two notorious rat runs on the east side of the city say they have had enough, and will stage protests tomorrow, Friday, November 28, during morning rush hour.

Scrapping parking machines across Galway city is a policy being worked on by senior city council officials.

Disgraced whiskey distiller Conor McGregor is the most high-profile name seeking a five-minute audience with Galway’s city’s 18 councillors on Monday, September 15, alongside nine other presidential hopefuls at time of going to press.

In a private briefing to city councillors this week, senior local authority officials confirmed a rent raise from 17 percent of assessable household income, to 20 per cent of household income, will be implemented from January.

With only one bike hire station located in the east ward of Galway City, Councillor Shane Forde has called on Transport for Ireland (TFI) to invest in his constituency.

They say all politics is local, but in Renmore, councillors are at daggers drawn over a small strip of footpath.