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The allocation of roads funding for Oranmore has been slammed as “minuscule” and “totally unacceptable” by the electoral area’s county council representatives who insist the system of distribution is unfair and should be based on traffic levels instead of length of road.

Fine Gael will be running four candidates each in both the Tuam and Loughrea wards in May’s Local Elections to the Galway County Council.

Sinn Féin may run two candidates, county councillor Dermot Connolly and town councillor Michael Breathnach, in the Ballinasloe ward for May’s Local Election.

Conservation of historic buildings and job creation are the goals of the new Built Heritage Jobs Leverage Scheme from which Galway city and county is to benefit.

The 2014 budget for Galway County Council was passed unanimously with an anticipated expenditure of €122 million, representing €4.5 million reduction on the budget adopted for 2013.

Galway West TD Brian Walsh has paid tribute to Fine Gael Cllr Jarlath McDonagh following his announcement that he will retire from politics at next year’s local elections.

The Active in Age Oranmore group have been running the four-day Bealtaine Festival, celebrating creativity of Oranmore’s older residents, from May 7 - May 10.

In his foreword to the document Putting People First – An Action Programme for Effective Local Government, the Minister for the Environment, ‘Big’ Phil Hogan had this to say:

Sinn Féin will hold a public meeting on Budget 2013 in the Vault, Dunlo Harbour, Ballinasloe opposite the Shearwater Hotel tomorrow at 8pm.

The controversial new one-way road system in Oranmore is to be reviewed by the Galway County Council, only a week after being installed.