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Struggling Galway families should not be expected to pay €500 a year for water, especially when there are non-taxation methods available to fund water infrastructure.

With some 5,000 households in Galway on the housing waiting list, and the Simon Community seeing a 57 per cent increase in people seeking its services, the city is in the grip of a housing crises.

With ‘application packs’ from the controversial organisation Irish Water arriving in houses across Galway, householders are being encouraged to boycott the letter and not pay the tax.

Householders across Galway city could see their property tax charge drop by as much as €50 if a motion before the Galway City Council on Wednesday is passed.

One-parent families in Galway will be put “under increasing financial pressure” following changes to the one parent family payment which sees the age limit for the youngest child reduced from 10 to seven.

The horrific killing of a foal on the city’s east side has led to calls for the development of community fields and stables, as a way to tackle the problem of horses in the city, and prevent any more horses coming to serious harm.

A motion to slash the controversial property tax by 15 per cent will be put forward by Sinn Féin councillors at this afternoon’s Galway City Council meeting.

GALWAY MUSICIAN Billy Mulholland will be honoured with a night of ‘ song and craic’ in Monroe’s Live on Thursday May 22 from 8.30pm.

The Gateway scheme may claim to provide short-term work and training for the long-term unemployed, but it is little more than “State-sanctioned slave labour”.

Many Galwegians are “unable to afford to heat their homes to a level that is both healthy and safe” as fuel poverty continues to increase in the city.