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On Friday last, Mayor of the Athlone-Moate Municipal District, Cllr Vinny McCormack met with the Mayor of Châteaubriant and President of the Community of Communes of Châteaubriant-Derval, Mr Alain Hunault to renew the twinning between Athlone and Châteaubriant.

Remote workers in Mayo have gained 63 hours of extra time since Ireland went into lockdown, by not having to commute into the office, according to a new study by Chill Insurance.

When I first started covering local council meetings here in Galway city and county, there were a lot of serious players on board. Heavy hitters who as soon as a meeting was over, would head to Dublin to make or take decisions in a higher forum. They looked and sounded serious. They were like Abbey repertoire actors let loose on touring the carnival tents and halls of rural Ireland. They knew how to play to the gallery and how to ensure their survival in an animalistic political arena. It was in the chambers of the councils that they fine-tuned their roar for the national stage.

Did you know that there are almost 45,000 people working & commuting daily in Galway? And well over half of us go to work in single-occupancy cars. I’m sure you’ve felt that pain on the morning and evening commute…

DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard is offering a wonderful opportunity to acquire an outstanding three bedroom duplex apartment in the lovely suburban estate of Ros Geal, located just a short distance from both Galway city centre and Salthill.

Galway can benefit from Government commitments to spend €2.2 billion on social housing between now and 2020, but only if the local authorities have designs and plans in place, according to Labour Galway West TD Derek Nolan.

It was a festival but this year it is becoming a carnival, and one of America’s finest comedians, Rich Hall - reputed to be the inspiration for The Simpson’s Moe Szyslak - will help launch it.

It was a festival but this year it is becoming a carnival, and one of America’s finest comedians, Rich Hall - reputed to be the inspiration for The Simpson’s Moe Szyslak - will help launch it.

A THEATRE show produced by, and which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival, has been impressing audiences at Edinburgh, where it also scooped an award.

A Galway TD has accused the Environment minister, Phil Hogan, and his department of displaying an “anti-rural bias” by refusing to provide sufficient council housing in rural areas, therefore forcing people to leave the area.