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Government ministers have allocated an unprecedented €3 billion toward transport infrastructure for Galway.

Around 250 residents gathered in the Raheen Woods Hotel, Athenry, last Thursday evening to hear the Athenry Peaker Plant Concern Group outline opposition to a proposed electricity generation facility expected to be submitted by Bord Gáis Energy later this month.

In years past, the NDP would be a ‘shopping list’ of projects which the cabinet awarded funding to, often after intense local lobbying, but it is now more a broad-brush statement of which policy areas or government departments will have funding prioritised.

Galway is the leading location for a new naval installation as part of a rethink on how Ireland should police its vast western sea area.

Loughrea-based Glanua, a leading engineering company, last night (Wednesday) announced that it has acquired UK-based Marches Biogas, an engineering and services firm that specialises in anaerobic digestion and biogas production.

Minister for Disability and Fianna Fáil TD for Galway East, Anne Rabbitte, has said she was disappointed to learn of the cancellation of a proposed public engagement by the company behind the Portumna power plant.

EirGrid, the operator of the national electricity grid, has welcomed comments from IFA President Tim Cullinan outlining that farmers’ need to be central to Ireland’s energy transition.

Chambers Ireland has published its recommendations to Government ahead of Budget 2022.

Apple’s efforts to extend planning permission for a site where it once planned an €850 million data centre, has raised concerns about the tech giant’s ultimate aims for the site, and prompted fears that any new centre could cause environmental damage and severely impact electricity supply in the west.