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The Salthill Cycleway pilot scheme is “a victory for everyone in the city”, but it has to be made work, and become the start of a new approach to transport in the city, one that will reduce, not increase, the city’s already chronic traffic congestion.

At a recent sitting of Athlone-Moate Municipal District, Green Party Councillor, Louise Heavin, requested that the local authority ensure all new LED street lighting are designed and of a colour that minimise disruption on insects, birds and small mammals.

On Monday, Galway City Councillors once again have the opportunity to be world leaders in Active Travel and Climate Action by supporting a much longed for temporary Salthill Cycleway, as permanent plans for an urban greenway for Galway and flood defences are progressed.

Following the recent announcement of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there was a flurry of press releases from councillors and senators, vying to have their names associated with this data.

The maintenance of the town bridge which traverses the heart of Athlone was the topic of much discussion at the recent sitting of the Athlone Moate Municipal District.

As summer comes to an end, attention is turning to the new political season as the various party think-ins get underway with the return of the Dáil just around the corner.

Local Green Party Councillor, Louise Heavin, has reiterated her desire to maintain and develop public spaces within Athlone.

RONAN FAGAN

An Bord Pleanala will debate this September whether growing vegetables is agriculture or not. A Galway case has been appealed to An Bord Pleanala following a decision by Galway City Council that a change from livestock to horticulture constituted a change of use. We have become so used to livestock grazing every field that any other form of food production feels and looks wrong to some people.