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The bill for reinstating the city’s coastline and Leisureland in Salthill to its pre-storm condition will come to more than €1.3 million, according to a preliminary estimate of costs which was presented at the Galway City Council meeting on Monday.

The Prom has been much in the news in the last few days. In Victorian times, our ancestors used to advertise the Promenade as a place unrivalled in the country, where a person could take the healthy invigorating air like nowhere else. In those days, it was just a narrow crooked roadway, very rough and untarred, and it extended from Palmer’s Rock to Blackrock. There were no shelters or flower beds, indeed there was hardly any beach, just rocks and shingle and seaweed. The cleaning up process started when breakwaters and piers were built, so there is a lot more beach now than there was 60 years ago. There were no large boulders to strengthen the Promenade, and flooding from the tide was far more regular than it is today – with the experience of this past couple of weeks excepted.

A popular Salthill walkway completely disappeared, car parks submerged in water, and businesses left counting the cost of the damage as the sea demonstrated its power during last week’s storm.

The Salthill Promenade, Grattan Road, and the Fishmarket at the Spanish Arch are at serious risk from high flood over next few days, leading the Galway City Council to issue a storm surge warning.

The benches along the Salthill Promenade are “broken and worn down”, the memorial tree for Trent Keegan “has vanished”, and the Salthill Park bandstand is “held together by paint”.

COPE Galway is calling on the people of Galway to volunteer this Christmas.

Health Care Informed (HCI), based in Galway, has announced the appointment of its director John Sweeney, who is from Castlebar, to the board of The International Society for the Quality in Health Care (ISQua).

Mullery auctioneers has just brought to the market a spacious two bedroom second floor apartment offering stunning views over Galway Golf Club and Galway Bay and situated in the exclusive and highly regarded development of Dun na Carraige. Built by O'Malley Construction in the grounds of Blackrock House, the development boasts beautiful landscaping throughout with mature trees, lawns, and shrubs which are maintained to the highest of standards by an on-site caretaker.

The first time I heard the name Sean Duggan was when my grandmother would scoff at the crowds walking the Salthill prom on a Sunday afternoon.

O’Donnellan & Joyce is currently offering three fantastic seaside properties in Salthill.