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The last meeting of Galway City Council descended into chaos this week when land ownership questions and compromise motions regarding rights of access into a proposed town centre near Knocknacarra upended proceedings.

The last meeting of Galway City Council descended into chaos this week when land ownership questions and compromise motions regarding rights of access into a proposed town centre near Knocknacarra upended proceedings.

City Councillor Declan McDonnell has warned against changing plans for a 103-home City Council development in Merlin Park to make all of the properties ‘affordable’ — saying that it could set back the building of the badly needed homes by years.

The Elected Members of Galway County Council have approved a five-year plan by the Local Authority to tackle vacancy rates and increase new housing supply.

Community Activist, advocate for gender equity and diversity, and Labour Party Candidate for Galway City East in the coming Local Elections, Helen Ogbu, extends a cordial invitation to the upcoming symposium titled ‘SHEroes – Promoting Women & Diversity in Politics’. This event is being organized following a successful grant application to Galway City Council, in collaboration with the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage and will take place on April 17 at 10:30am to 2:pm, in the Menlo Park Hotel.

Speaking to the Athlone Advertiser this week, local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has said that the latest spiral in constituency (Longford-Westmeath) homelessness underlines the need for a general election now.

Residential construction is booming across Galway city and county, according to new government figures, which show the city is far ahead of rising national trends.

Galway County Council has announced plans to deliver 139 new homes in Athenry, Portumna and Tuam. The Local Authority this week informed Elected Members that it has received approval from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to appoint multi-disciplinary design teams to advance five separate social housing projects.

The present and the future have an annoying habit of conspiring to show just how silly we might have been in the past. Armed with foresight and hindsight, something that might have seemed like a good idea at some stage in the past is ridiculed by the present and put right by the future.

Galway City Council is seeking immediate feedback from the public on the proposed new Clifden Railway Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge crossing the Corrib at Woodquay.