Controversial plan to sell city park
Thu, Jul 09, 2026
Thirteen years after Galway City Council lent a piece of parkland to the HSE for six months, next week councillors will be asked to sell almost four acres of that park for an air ambulance base to serve the west of Ireland.
The Health Service Executive is expected to offer almost €700,000 for the recreational land which borders the western boundary of University College Hospital Galway, and donate €1.1 million to the local authority with the provision it must be spent on community infrastructure for Shantalla.
It is understood the Saolta Group, which oversees seven public hospitals across the west and northwest, attempted to purchase land near Arch Motors on Seamus Quirke Road to offer as a land-swap with the Galway City Council, but this deal fell through based on price.
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