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Traffic is stealing days of our lives each year in Galway, local representatives of People Before Profit have declared.

Castlebar Train Station opened on 12 December 1862. Claremorris opened the previous May; Westport followed four years later. As travel times decreased, those desperate to trade the poverty of Mayo for the hope of a better life in one of the burgeoning cities across the Irish sea could be in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester or London in two days.

A new student sexual health service was launched at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Athlone this week, coinciding with SHAG week - a national event intended to raise sexual health awareness.

The Galway City Ring Road will see a massive reduction in traffic congestion in the city centre, and travel times cut by more than 40 per cent; or it will see even greater levels of traffic clog our roads and drastically increase Galway’s carbon emissions.

Galway’s current road structure is damaging to the progress of the entire region, Sen Ollie Crowe told the An Bord Pleanala oral hearing into the Galway City Ring Road yesterday (Wednesday) morning.

Galway and its entire region depend on implementing a combined traffic relief plan, which incorporates a new road infrastructure, increased public transport system, and a better cycle path plan throughout the city.

The Minister for Rural and Community Development, Mr Michael Ring TD, officially opened the new branch of Heat Merchants in Castlebar, Co Mayo on Friday last. The opening is part of a €4 million investment programme by the Heat Merchants Group that will see the opening of nine new Heat Merchants branches and four additional Tubs & Tiles showrooms throughout the country over the next three years.

A new report recently launched by Irish business body Ibec, has provided some interesting new insights into the strengths and weaknesses of living and doing business in the west of Ireland and should prove useful for future policy planning in relation to themes such as population, housing, skills, broadband, travel / commuting, tourism, local enterprise development and local government finances.

Shannon Airport has welcomed the announcement by Aer Lingus that its Shannon / New York JFK service will operate year-round in 2019. Shannon is set to operate it largest Transatlantic service in 17 years with eight transatlantic services operated by six different carriers across seven destinations from Shannon in 2018.