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Significant progress is due to be made on proposals for a new improved road from Galway city to Connemara, which if successful could lead to a reduction in the number of lands that are “frozen” prohibiting many families along the route getting planning permission.

Galway-based company Lighthouse Networks has just announced the launch of a new Wireless Broadband Service for Galway city and the surrounding areas. The new service is being marketed under the name “Lightnet235” and it provides broadband subscribers in Galway with a very competitively priced broadband service. It uses the very latest fixed wireless access technology and has an entry level price of just €20 per month.

Sponsored by Mullingar-based company Satellite Broadband Ireland, this year’s Zurich LAMA (Local Authority Members Association) Awards acknowledged the very best of Ireland’s talent in local projects of construction, engineering, and infrastructure.

A NEW chapter in the story of The Kanyu Tree opens tomorrow when the Salthill based band of brothers release their second single ‘Congratulations’ with two shows in the city.

The lion might be the king of the jungle, but the gorilla has just proven to be the king of the sweet tooth, as the popular Cadbury’s Drumming Gorilla starts off his cross country tour with a stop in Galway this week.

With just over seven weeks to go until polling day the line-ups for the Local Elections in Connemara have begun to take their final shape.

WHILE THE winter closes in around us, there will be a piece of Galway forever bathed in sunshine - the Róisín Dubh on a night when The Kanyu Tree play.

A radio programme on the pailitéirí, the travelling men and women who worked for their bed and board in Cois Fharraige, Connemara from the 1920s to the 1940s, will be broadcast next week.