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Renville Park, “the most visited amenity in Oranmore” is untidy, there is litter strewn in the car parking areas, and the grass is not being cut. The Galway County Council must account for its “disgraceful state”.

An all-out strike involving 400 Galway County Council workers resulted in the jobs of 15 workers being saved.

A new website - www.screenwest.ie - is being launched this week by the Galway Film Centre as an information portal which seeks to attract film makers and television producers to the west of Ireland.

Mayo and Galway football managers have kick-started a Slow Down for the Show Down campaign to encourage motorists to watch their speed.

It is essential for Galway city that the city manager Joe MacGrath “insist that the county manager” fill two full-time fire-fighters positions which have become vacant because of retirements.

On August 1 1485, Pyerse Lynch was elected the first mayor of Galway city and his election allowed for the foundation of the Galway Corporation, now the Galway City Council.

A Oranmore development which proposed to build 56 houses, seven apartments, and leave areas for a school and a soccer pitch has been refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanala because of its close proximity to important ecological sites.

A bottle bank recycling facility for Athenry must be put in place immediately as there are plenty of sites around the town where they could be suitably located.

Galway County Council has confirmed details of Streets Alive, an event to be held on Main Street, Loughrea on Tuesday September 22 to mark European Mobility Week and ‘In town without my car’, a car free day.

Without the EU, the M6 motorway running past Athenry, its local road infrastructure, and the western rail corridor connecting Athenry to Limerick would “never have got off the ground”.