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Not everything was wasted during the Celtic Tiger years. Galway has benefited greatly from the motorway to Dublin, as well as the Gort by-pass, which gives motorists a clear run to Limerick on the impressive M18. No one will be sorry to see the end of the Crusheen right-angled turn under an impossible railway bridge. Artics needed the whole road to make the turn, causing delays and gasps of incredulity at the narrowness and the danger of it all.

The area we know today as Highfield Park was originally a place of green fields and rocky granite outcrops and it was ‘out in the country’. There were very few people living there. Mostly situated in the townland of Rahoon (Rath Ún or Ún’s Fort), it was bordered by two of the main roads into Galway, the Taylor’s Hill road and the Rahoon road. There was a small granite quarry there, (near the grounds of St Helen’s) and a couple of stone turrets which probably served as watchtowers.

NUI Galway is determined that progress can continue to be made on four separate building projects which were ‘shut down’ by NAMA.

The Achill Sound Sewerage Scheme is to enter test mode this month, members of the Belmullet Electoral Area Committee were informed on Tuesday.

The Ossory Park project has met with severe problems which have stalled the project’s development.

The ribbon was cut on Kilkenny’s new courthouse on Friday last when the Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern visited Kilkenny to carry out the official ceremony.

Kilkenny County Council has a limited amount of time to draw down funding of up to €1 million before it reverts back to the Department of Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, according to the Quarterly Housing Report.

Approval has been granted for €540,000 worth of housing grants in the Swinford Electoral Area.

The overhaul of the Athlone Relief Road (bypass) will cost in the region of €7 million and may take up to 40 weeks to complete.

The Galway City Council has signed a €7 million contract with Coffey Construction Ltd for the long awaited upgrading of the Seamus Quirke Road, according to Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely.