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Proposals for a greenway allowing people to cycle or walk from Westport to Ballina via Castlebar or vice versa took a step forward this week, with the allocation of Government funding for a concept and feasibility study for a 60km route linking the three towns.

Now I know we’ve had two major plans, one the July Stimulus Package, but the plan I want to focus on today in this column is the plan for Education and the Roadmap to get it.

Community groups, political representatives and residents are calling on Galway County Council to seize the moment and deliver on the long anticipated Connemara Greenway. The groups are echoing the words of Transport Minister Eamon Ryan who has called on local authorities to use the July stimulus package to deliver on initiatives like the greenway to boost local economies and ensure sustainable modes of transport.

120 new jobs will be created when the Portlaoise Plaza opens on Junction 17 on the M7 tomorrow Friday, July 31. The jobs were announced at the site this week by the Minister for State at the Department of Finance, Seán Fleming. The Portlaoise Plaza is part of the Supermac’s Group and will be the largest Plaza in the country, and brings the amount of people employed by the group throughout the country to over 4,000. The group consist of Supermac’s, Só Hotels and The Plaza Group.

Galway County Council should disperse Galway 2020 legacy funding to municipal districts, according to Independent councillor Tim Broderick.

"Zero funding" for two major health facilities for County Galway - which require €32 million to be built - have been allocated this year, and funding for the projects in 2021 looks uncertain.

The "delay in re-establishing" the bus and coach sector will have "serious consequences for our obligations under climate change legislation" and "implications for the tourist industry" in Galway.

A new round of Sports Capital funding is needed to help sports clubs in Galway city and county, and across the State, deal with the fall-out and aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis.

"Flawed", "full of holes", and "fails to address the main excuses used for evicting tenants", is how one city councillor has described the Government's new Residential Tenancies Bill.

Mayo Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon has written to the Minister for the OPW, Patrick O’Donovan TD, to express concerns surrounding the delay of the Crossmolina Flood Relief Scheme and requesting the project timeline be expedited, in view of ongoing flood threats to residents and businesses in the town.