Cuddy calls for retention of Galway Airport airstrip

Thu, May 10, 2018

A formal request has been lodged with the Galway County Council that the airstrip at Galway Airport be retained as “there is no possibility” of a suitable site being found for another airstrip “so close to the city ever again”.

This is the view of Independent county councillor Jim Cuddy, who has contacted Kevin Kelly, the interim CEO of Galway County Council, to formally request the airstrip be retained.

New website and name at No 4 Youth Services

Thu, May 10, 2018

Galway Diocesan Youth Services which was set up in the early 1980s is to be renamed as No 4 Youth Service at an event in the Harbour Hotel next Wednesday, when it will also unveil its new website.

City to launch heart failure awareness campaign

Thu, May 10, 2018

Galway is the first city and county in Europe to launch a heart failure awareness campaign.

€3.5 million for home improvement grants for Galway's elderly and people with disabilities

Tue, May 08, 2018

Older people and those with disabilities in Galway city could be set to benefit from funding of €1,100,374 which will be made available via grants for housing adaptations.

Rent hikes at Cúirt na Coiribe condemned as 'callous and unfair'

Tue, May 08, 2018

An 18 per cent hike in rents for student accommodation could see Galway students paying an additional €1,000 for a nine month/39 week lease, leading to warnings that such hikes "threaten the advances our third-level institutions have achieved in recent years".

Cuirt na Coiribe issue statement in response to concerns over rent increase

Tue, May 08, 2018

Cuirt na Coiribe has issued a statement in relation to concern among students at the proposed rent increase. It reads as folows:

"Cuirt na Coiribe, Galway, has recently advised residents of rent updates planned to take effect in the September 2018 / 2019 academic year and a new €2m investment programme over the next two years. The new rent rates will bring Cuirt na Coiribe in line with the wider student accommodation market in Galway. From September 2018 a single room in Cuirt na Coiribe will cost €140 per week compared to current rents of €141 per week in Gort na Coiribe, €148 in Donegan Court and €135 at Corrib Village on the NUIG campus. Existing rental agreements with tenants for the remainder of this year are unaffected.

Seventeen families join Galway homeless list in last eight weeks

Thu, May 03, 2018

 The housing crisis in Galway city is worsening with 17 new families joining the homeless list in the city over the past eight weeks.

Grealish says figures prove case for minor injuries unit at Merlin Park Hospital

Thu, May 03, 2018

People with a minor injury now face an average wait of five and a half hours from the time they are first registered to when they are discharged from the Emergency Department at University Hospital Galway.

The statistic comes from the HSE, and was in response to a Parliamentary Question to the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, tabled by Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish. The figures show that from January 1 to April 1 this year, the average time from registration to discharge for a patient with minor injury was five hours 35 minutes.

McNelis raises concerns over numbers of AIR B&Bs in the city

Thu, May 03, 2018

Many apartments in the city centre being run as Air B&Bs are not paying commercial rates or water charges, but are instead “reaping the benefits” of the hard work of rate payers in the accommodation industry in Galway.

Gort and Spiddal Water Treatment Plants to receive €1.5m upgrade

Thu, May 03, 2018

Irish Water, working in partnership with Galway County Council, is investing €1.54 million to upgrade the Gort and Spiddal Regional Water Supply Schemes.

Craughwell NS extension plan moves ahead

Thu, May 03, 2018

Galway East TD Seán Canney has welcomed news that an application for planning permission has been lodged with Galway County Council for an eight-classroom extension to Craughwell National School.

Soeaking yesterday, he said that he has received notification from the project’s senior architect that planning documents will be lodged this week.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy clinic now open in Galway

Thu, May 03, 2018

A state of the art Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) Clinic has opened on Merchant Road in the city offering therapeutic and healing treatment to the people of Galway and beyond.

Ó Tuathail accuses city council of having ‘worst record for social housing’

Thu, May 03, 2018

Galway City Council has been accused of having “the worst record for social housing nationwide” having built “no social housing at all” and having acquired “the lowest number of units” in the State.

Cannon welcomes funding for radon testing in east Galway

Thu, May 03, 2018

Approximately 1,400 homes in the West and Mid-West of the country will be tested for radon levels with the Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment providing €70,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for high risk areas in East Galway and Roscommon.

The EPA will undertake the comprehensive Radon Testing and Remediation Survey, including behavioural factors, which will help inform the design of a new financial incentive scheme, which may be provided for in future legislation.The Radon Testing and Remediation Survey will assess the degree of uptake of radon testing and remediation in homes in high radon areas and adjacent lower risk areas.

Connolly welcomes return of bus service for St Francis Primary Care Unit after one-month cessation

Thu, May 03, 2018

After an absence of almost one month, a bus service to cater for the day centre at St Francis Primary Care Unit in Newcastle, has been reinstated, a move which has been welcomed by Independent TD Catherine Connolly.

The bus service ceased on April 4 as it appeared the bus was “unfit for purpose”. More than 60 people, with an average age of 80 years, attend this centre on a weekly basis, the majority of whom are reliant on the bus service. According to Dep Connolly, the withdrawal of the service “added to the stress of the service users and their families”. She also understands that instructions were given to users and their families to “use private cars”, a move, she said, which would only “add to the traffic congestion on the city’s roads”.

Planning and procurement process is too slow

Thu, May 03, 2018

At the third special meeting held in April we discussed two of the Quarterly reports for the period ending March 30 2018. I have said before that one of the more frustrating things for me is the problem of getting bogged down on unproductive matters such as minutes or enduring spells of pointless bickering which, in the long run only serves to prohibit us from dealing with unproductive matters.

People with disabilities in Galway to benefit from investment in respite services

Thu, May 03, 2018

People with disabilities in Galway are to benefit from new Government investment in respite services, a Fine Gael TD has said.

Aisteoirí óga ag ceiliúradh

Thu, May 03, 2018

Tá daltaí Ghaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh i gcathair na Gaillimhe agus daltaí Scoil Náisiúnta Cholmcille ar an Tulach i gConamara ag ceiliúradh i ndiaidh dóibh gradaim náisiúnta a bhaint amach ag an bhFéile Náisiúnta Scoildrámaíochta. Bronnadh an gradam scothléiriú na Féile ar Ghaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh agus an gradam don Bhunscoil Ghaeltachta is fearr ar scoil Náisiúnta Cholmcille.

Léacht Uí Ghadhra

Thu, May 03, 2018

Is ar an gCéadaoin seo chugainn, 9 Bealtaine, a reáchtálfar Léacht Uí Ghadhra 2018, léacht a bheidh ar siúl i Halla na Cathrach, Baile Átha Cliath. Seo léacht bhliantúil Chonradh na Gaeilge, ócáid atá ainmnithe i gcuimhne ar Nollaig Ó Gadhra, iarUachtarán de chuid an Chonartha.

Ceiliúradh ar Raifteirí

Thu, May 03, 2018

Tabharfar ardán faoi leith don óige ag Féile Raifteirí na bliana seo le hOíche na nÓg a bheidh ar siúl ar an Déardaoin 17 Bealtaine sa Phlaza, Cill Tullach, ar an M6. Mar chuid den chlár imeachtaí cuirfear fáilte roimh Oisín Mac, fear óg as Cill Mhantáin atá ag baint cáil amach do féin mar rapaire Gaelach agus fear a raibh aitheanta freisin ag Gradaim Ceoil Nós. Beidh an ócáid seo ar siúl ó 7.30 – 9.00in agus bronnfar duaiseanna Chomórtas Raifteirí ag an ócáid chéanna.

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