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The Galway Comedy Festival, the Róisín Dubh, and Monroe’s Live are among the businesses which are set to benefit from more than €1.3 million in funding for Galway under the Live Performance Support Scheme.

Galway city and county is to get more than €1.23 million under the Government’s Additional Outdoor Infrastructure Fund, to help ensure a safe outdoor summer.

Local Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, has announced funding to provide additional financial support to Westmeath County Council ensuring sufficient provision is made for bins, waste collection and portaloos where necessary as well as any further measures required at key locations ahead of an outdoor summer.

Local Fianna Fáil Minister of State, Deputy Robert Troy, has welcomed confirmation from the RSA that an online driver theory test system will be rolled out shortly with capacity to carry out 3,200 tests per month.

Planning ahead for dining in the great outdoors this June bank holiday weekend will help reduce waste, keep millions of single use cups, bottles and cutlery from ending up in our waste system or as litter, and reduce costs to local businesses - according to My Waste.

Minister for State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton, has confirmed that addiction treatment counsellors for the new community alcohol treatment service in Galway have commenced in post on Monday. A new premises has been acquired and fitted out for the new service on Merchants Road.

Local Fianna Fáil Minister of State, Deptuy Robert Troy, has welcomed an announcement from the Minister for the Environment, Eamon Ryan TD confirming an additional €5m in funding for litter infrastructure and awareness campaigns to encourage people to dispose of their rubbish thoughtfully.

Jack Chambers, Minister of State for the Gaeltacht and Sport, announced on a visit to Galway City and the Connemara Gaeltacht that he has approved two further language plans under the language planning process, in respect of Galway City and the Gaeltacht Language Planning Area of Bearna and Cnoc na Cathrach respectively.

The week's sixth annual UN Global Road Safety Week, which runs until Sunday, is calling for drivers to slow down.

Castlebar Regional Training Centre (CRTC) has been successful in an application for funding for a state-of-the-art outdoor training facility at Lios na Circe, Saleen, Castlebar.