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“Appalling” and “completely unacceptable,” is how a city councillor has described to closure of the Áras Mhic Dara Day Centre in An Cheathrú Rua.

A five-exit junction must be a key feature of any plan to replace the Kirwan roundabout on the Headford Road with a signalised junction, according to Independent city councillor Declan McDonnell.

The widening of a “dangerous stretch” of the Ballymoneen Road, north of the roundabout and south of the Slí Gheal estate, is set to become a reality following a land purchase.

More than 4,500 households are on the Galway City Council list waiting for a home, a situation that has been described as “ shocking” by a local councillor.

Rural Galway will be out in force at next weekend’s Labour party convention, protesting against what it sees as the “attacks on rural communities” being pursued by the party in Government.

The local community garda for Mervue is being taken from the area forcing the Renmore Community Garda to cover both Renmore and Mervue.

City Hall officials cannot ignore a report which they commissioned which says that a proposed new bus corridor for the Dublin Road must not run through Merlin Park Woods.

People working late hours in town and who leave their cars in the Dyke Road car park have complained of “not feeling safe walking this area late in the evening”.

“The writing is clearly on the wall for our public health service in Galway,” according to Independent city councillor Catherine Connolly, as planned cutbacks threaten to destroy the viability of the service.

The “exorbitant expenditure” that has been incurred by the Galway City Council over landscaping roundabouts and planting shrubs needs to be curbed.