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There were harsh words, recriminations, accusations and apologies in City Hall this week over the emotive topic of Knocknacarra’s Western Distributor Road, but relief and joy about the Ring Road planning decision.

The group of concerned residents says it has resorted to asking Advertiser readers, who drive, to chose main road routes if they are not visiting their neighbourhood, plagued by rat runners seeking to skip traffic lights on the Old Dublin Road.

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.