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From this week’s Galway City Tribune –  City councillors have claimed they have been kept in the dark about plans to provide temporary shelter to International Protection applicants. Galway’s Oireachtas members – TDs and senators – were briefed by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (CEDIY) about plans to accommodate over 300 […]

Fianna Fáil Councillor Alan Cheevers has called on Galway City Council to apply for funding to the Department of Transport for a new access at the back of Roscam estates.

Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column with Dara Bradley In the week leading up to the single most important vote city councillors have taken in a generation – approving a multi-million euro loan to buy Crown Square and relocate City Hall to Mervue – the Chief Executive of Galway City Council Brendan McGrath […]

Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column with Dara Bradley They’re taking lumps out of each other in Galway City East. At least one of the six city councillors elected there in 2019 will not be seeking re-election in 2024’s local elections. And even though polling day is more than a year away, the […]

Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column with Dara Bradley Galway City East is probably the most diverse of the city’s three electoral wards. Doughiska and Roscam have large populations of what we call the ‘new Irish’ who, up until the last local election, felt a bit detached from the political system and the […]

From the Galway City Tribune – An application to proceed with the development of the Dublin Road BusConnects scheme will be made to An Bord Pleanála in the Autumn. This follows an extensive public consultation process last month which found widespread support for the bus corridor – provided tweaks were made to accommodate those living […]

Https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/qzh6ku/long_cheeversam4ep.mp3 Galway Bay fm newsroom – A city councillor has hit out at the “excuses” offered by Galway City Council over delays to the Martin Roundabout. They include war in Ukraine, Brexit, the fallout from the Suez Canal Blockage in 2021 and COVID restrictions in China. The works were originally set to be finished in […]

A driver has been caught driving at 138km/h in a 120km/h Zone on the M6 at Carnmore on National Slow Down Day. Another Galway driver has been caught driving at 117 kilometres per hour in a 50 zone on the N6 at Ballinfoile. While on the N84 Castlequarter Cloonboo, and R339 Monivea Road, drivers were […]

Https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/dqrd3b/sean_landlordbgxjz.mp3 Galway Bay fm newsroom – A local TD says landlords are being unfairly “demonised” over the housing crisis. Speaking in the Dáil during a debate on the eviction ban, Deputy Sean Canney said many are trying to portray landlords as one of the primary drivers of the crisis. But he said landlords are now […]

Galway City Council tenants are living in homes with black windows caused by mould and others  cannot use their upstairs due to the lack of a stairlift, it has been claimed. Another tenant has moved into a caravan because he was waiting so long for work to be done. Staff shortages were being blamed at […]