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The independent review into cryptosporidium outbreak, and the Galway City Council’s handling of the crisis, is to be completed by end of month. However Independent Cllr Catherine Connolly has “serious concerns” about the report’s independence.

The shelter and changing area in Ladies Beach, Salthill, which is decorated with colourful murals, is to have new, specially designed, gates which will be locked every evening and opened early in the morning.

Mayo’s two government TDs were labelled a “disgrace” by county councillors at a meeting of the Claremorris electoral area committee this week over the farming cutbacks announced in Budget 2009.

There are at least 200 vacant local authority and affordable houses in Galway city, something that is “absolutely scandalous”, given that there are more than 3,000 households on the housing waiting list.

It would be truly ironic if Galway was to lose its living boating heritage with the disappearance of the gleoiteog while at the same time celebrating a round the world sailing race!

The free pre-school year for all children, introduced in the recent Budget will see some 70,000 children be eligible to benefit from it each year.

A local city councillor is calling on the Sisters of Mercy and Christian Brothers to join forces and donate lands at Taylor’s Hill for a special memorial park for children abused in State run institutions in Galway.

A local city councillor is calling for the resignation of Health Minister Mary Harney in the wake of recent reports that further budgetary cutbacks would result in the loss of 60 beds, 126 staff and two theatres at University Hospital Galway.

The ongoing discharge of raw sewage, fat, and grease oils into the Eglinton Canal at Lower Dominick Street has been going on for the past five years and the situation must be rectified immediately.

Independent councillor Catherine Connolly will launch a new book, called Transforming Children’s Services? by Paul Michael Garrett, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, tomorrow at 6pm.