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It is imperative the Galway County Council urge the Minister of Transport, Eamon Ryan, and the Minister of State, Hildegarde Naughton, to make a detailed submission to Government for the construction of a twin track on the railway between Athenry and Galway city, that is according to Fine Gael councillor Liam Carroll.

With rents in Galway city now standing at an "alarming" rate of more than €1,300 per month, the Government must step in and take action to halt such an "unsustainable" increase.

A total of 4,840 learner drivers County Galway are waiting for a test - 1,104 of them in Galway City - according to figures released by the Road Safety Authority.

One recent evening Insider watched the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film La Chinoise in which a small group of French students sit around their apartment, located in what is described as a “workers’ district”, and engage in theatrical discussions about how they must overthrow the bourgeoise and, in particular, the hierarchal French university system which saw students as passive receivers of knowledge handed down by their god-like professors, rather than participants in a dialectical exchange in which both students and teachers learn from each other and grow as a result. No one, with the exception of chairman Mao, is radical enough for most of these students. The French Communist Party which, to draw an Irish parallel, would have been more or less the political equivalent of present day Sinn Féin, is condemned as hopelessly “revisionist”. The Soviet Union, in particular its then president, the now largely forgotten Mr Kosygin, is convicted by the students at their kitchen table discussions of failing to do enough to support the Vietnamese in their war against Lyndon Johnson. And the French working class, with whom said kitchen table debaters absolutely sympathise, are seen as hopelessly passive. In a mix of desperation, madness, and idealism, the students decide to mount a campaign of terrorism, which will involve them doing something they have singularly failed to do for most of the film; getting up from that kitchen table and going outside. They plan to kill the visiting Soviet minister for culture who has been invited by President de Gaulle’s own culture minister, the novelist and decayed Stalinist intellectual Andre Malraux, to open a new wing of the university. After that, they hope to bomb the Sorbonne in the belief that this will spark a revolution. Insider is against blowing up universities. Partly because he knows such actions more often provoke backlash than revolution. But also because Insider happens to teach at a university and coming out in favour of blowing up universities might lead to an awkward email from one’s department head.

Local Fine Gael Councillor, John Dolan, has welcomed the recent work on the Muckenagh road.

NUI Galway and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) have been awarded an additional €1.7 million for investment in campus upgrades, Covid-19 measures, and distance learning infrastructure.

More than 200 jobs are to be created in Galway by a global technology company following the establishment of its European headquarters in the city.

Seán Kyne, Fine Gael senator in Galway has welcomed confirmation that construction has started on the new €62 million radiation oncology at UHG following disruption caused by Covid-19.

Businesses in Westmeath should apply for the Apprenticeship Incentivisation Scheme which is now being extended until mid-2021 due to its success, Longford-Westmeath Fine Gael Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, has stated.

As news emerged on Friday last that an approved alcohol based hand sanitiser, ViraPro, which was been widely used in schools, had been recalled by the HSE due to the possible detrimental health reactions, it has been confirmed by an Athlone businessman working within the realm of disinfection, that a self-penned letter detailing concerns relating to such an occurrence was issued to the Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, in August.