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The LifeSaver Project has been hailed a major success following a two-day event held at Galway Racecourse where almost 900 Transition Year students from schools across Galway City and County took part in a comprehensive road safety learning experience aimed at encouraging safer behaviour and decision-making on the roads.

Uisce Éireann commenced roadworks on Ballagh Road in Bushypark yesterday to facilitate the installation of a new water main. The works will continue until the end of November.

Galway and Roscommon Education & Training Board (ETB) joined over 200 delegates at a major education conference held in Tralee to explore the relationship between Ireland’s education and training sector and the European Union.

Thirty-eight businesses across Salthill and the city centre are set to share €275,000 in grants to tidy up tired facades, smarten shop windows and rejuvenate scruffy streetscapes.

City Hall on College Road will be demolished after Galway City Council completes its move to Crown Square next year.

Years of simmering discontent about how central government funds the city council reached boiling point this week, when councillors roasted Galway’s TDs and senators for failing to champion the regional capital’s local authority.

Fine Gael Councillor Eddie Hoare has urged Galway City Council to apply for grant funding for the provision of lighting at the Tennis and Basketball Courts in Westside Park.

The Mayor of Galway City, Councillor Helen Ogbu, has voiced her support for the Cork Call to Action on Climate and Health, joining more than 100 mayors, deputy mayors and elected representatives from 60 cities across 22 European countries in committing to local action on the growing climate and health crisis.

The housing crisis persists, and homelessness is up in Galway and nationally. Tens of thousands of uncounted, hidden homeless - couch surfers and over-occupied households - remain precipitously close to sleeping rough. As autumn winds strip leaves from trees, the tented shanty towns at the edges of the city’s parks and wastelands hove into view. To gain an insight, the Galway Advertiser slept rough last week, tagging along with the Simon Community’s industrious fundraisers, service users, SimonSoc university group and a chilly mayor of Galway sleeping outside for her very first time.

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) met in Galway last week to discuss Europe’s regions’ central role in strengthening competitiveness and resilience in a changing global economy, stressing the importance of supporting local businesses, investment and innovation while addressing trade volatility and shifting global supply chains.