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Senator Ollie Crowe has this week urged the Government to find a resolution to the ongoing strike action by retained firefighters across the country.

Ireland's seabed mapping programme, INFOMAR, has launched a new series of blue scale maps, featuring 18 high-resolution bathymetric maps of Ireland’s coastal waters, beginning with a high resolution map of Galway Bay.

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Five future migrant leaders from Galway were among 31 migrants graduating from political and leadership programmes, at a ceremony run by the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI).

Mayo Senator Paddy Burke has called for occupational pensions to be increased.

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The closure of nursing homes in Mayo and around Ireland has been condemned by Aontú representative for Mayo, Paul Lawless and Mayo Sinn Fein TD, Rose Conway-Walsh.

The matter of medical card patients in Mayo being unable to access dental services in the county was raised in the Dail on Wednesday of this week by Mayo TD Alan Dillon, who told Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during Questions to An Taoiseach: "There is a staggering average in the county of over 5,500 patients per dentist awaiting treatment under the DTSS. Dentists are overwhelmed, patients are travelling abroad, and this is all a serious concern for medical card holders in Mayo."

Local Fine Gael councillor, John Dolan, has welcomed the announcement from Minister Heather Humphries of increased Government funding for agricultural shows.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis has urged greater investment in soccer in Galway, saying that it lags behind in terms of government investment, despite being the most popular team sport in the county.