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I would like to build an extension to my house but I am unsure if I need to apply for planning permission. I understand some extensions may not require planning permission provided they are under a particular size, is this correct? Are there any other restrictions?

City Councillor Declan McDonnell has urged Galway City Council to draw up a further five-year plan to tackle dangerous ageing roads and footpaths in the older residential areas of Galway.

“One day I walked through the garden gate, and I never left” says Catherine in Ballinfoile Mór Community Garden. This is a what members throughout Galway city say about their community gardens in all sorts of ways. At this time of the year, you can feel growth in the air along with the sense of belonging and purpose which being a member of a garden brings.

Jack’s Stop, a new café, located on the Old Rail Trail Greenway at Streamstown, the perfect halfway stop between Athlone and Mullingar, will open its doors tomorrow, Friday, March 31.

Galway City West and Knocknacarra councillor Donal Lyons this week welcomed Galway City Council improvement works to footpaths now underway on the Shangort Road.

The number of new homes that could be built on brownfield land has reached record levels, new research by CPRE, the countryside charity, has found.

Mayo TD Alan Dillon said he is raising 'the concerns of Mayo farmers and landowners in relation to the draft residential zoned land tax maps recently published by the local authority'.

Following the controversial beach bye-laws that were under consideration by the Galway County Council to prohibit all water activities other than swimming in beaches across the country, water sports enthusiast, Barra Nevin is calling for a national policy on zoning beaches.

The Longford Westmeath Green Party will host a special public event in the Radisson Blu Hotel Athlone on Friday, November 25.