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The public has a chance to shape the future of the city by making its views known on how it wants the sites of the Corrib Great Southern Hotel, Dawn Dairies, and Connacht Laundry to be developed.

Cancer patients should be focused on just one thing – getting better, but the inpatient costs, which can rise to €800 a year, are not doing anything to help that and must be scrapped.

Galway city will need 4,433 houses by 2028, and of these 1,575 will need to be social housing and 903 will have to be affordable housing, if the city is to seriously tackle the growing local authority waiting list.

Dangerous roads, inaccessible estates, and general under-investment have created major problems in the Headford Road area, which must be urgently addressed.

“A gift to land hoarders” is how the Government's new vacant zoned land tax, announced as part of Budget 2022, has been described by a Galway city councillor.

The Salthill Cycleway pilot scheme is “a victory for everyone in the city”, but it has to be made work, and become the start of a new approach to transport in the city, one that will reduce, not increase, the city’s already chronic traffic congestion.

The Galway Homeless and Housing Coalition will hold a socially distanced rally in Eyre Square at 12 noon, this Saturday, September 11.

The outdoor dining and pedestrianisation measures in Galway city should not come to an end on September 30, but instead should be extended to Christmas.

With the return of live music in Galway with The Grand Auld Stretch events at Nimmo’s Pier, and next week’s concerts in Pearse Stadium, a call has been made to prioritise a strategy to safely re-open the entertainment industry.

House prices in Galway city have risen by 12.6 per cent since 2020, with the average price now €316,360, according to a new report released by Daft.ie.