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The Government has announced a range of new rental protections for students ahead of the next academic year. The protections will limit the amount of money that can be demanded upfront by landlords, and will also place a cap on the notice period that students are required to give before vacating.

Cllr Niall Mc Nelis has called on the government parties to take on board the latest bill from the Labour Party that would implement a key recommendation of the 1973 Kenny report to tackle speculation and hoarding.

New legislation to create a ‘circular economy’ is coming, involving a “radical change” to production and consumption, limiting single use products and clamping down on littering and dumping,

Women working in low paid jobs in Ireland are likely to earn 14 per cent less than men doing the same work, but one Galway senator is hopeful this situation can begin to be changed.

Legislative restrictions on short term letting must be tightened to ensure that the already high rents in Galway do not “spiral out of control”.

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.

“If it is unreasonable to expect people in rural Connemara to travel to Ballybrit to get their Covid vaccines, it is doubly so for residents of the Aran Islands.”

Minister Anne Rabbitte should spend less time encouraging the privatisation of the Galway to Gort bus route, and spend more time campaigning for Bus Éireann to reinstate the service.

A “Red letter day” for Tuam was how one TD described the beginning of construction works on the Old Grove hospital site in the centre of the north Galway town.

As the smoke begins to clear from the havoc wreaked by the pandemic, the provision of housing will more and more take centre stage, with a huge mountain to climb before we get to a situation where supply comes even close to meeting demand.