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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.

Following that meeting on Monday, and an early morning tour of the new Mervue HQ for journalists, nearly all councillors voted to approve an historic €60 million, 30-year loan at their July plenary meeting. This will pay for some of the fit-out of Crown Square, but there will be plenty left over for other capital projects.

THE HSE is spending in the region of €35,000 a week on taxis transporting dialysis patients to and from their treatment in GUH, the Regional Health Forum was told this week.

According to industry quotes, this is likely to cost more than €200,000.