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With the pipework to the city’s water treatment facility in Mutton Island not having sufficient capacity to process the city’s wastewater during times of even ‘relatively light rainfall events’, frequently rendering two popular beaches for local bathers as ‘unsuitable for swimming’, the planning committee of An Taisce is appealing to Galway City Council to address the urgent issue before adding more homes to the city water network.

The Galway Planning Committee of An Taisce say that ‘misleading’ reporting by Galway City Council via its Facebook page regarding the water quality of Ballyloughane Beach on Friday, August 4, put bathers at risk of contracting E.Coli and Intestinal Enterococci.

An Taisce has announced the International Blue Flag and Green Coast Award recipients for 2022, with the awards presented by Malcolm Noonan TD, Minister of State with responsibility for Heritage and Electoral Reform at a ceremony on Curracloe Beach in County Wexford on Friday last.

The National Spring Clean is Ireland’s official anti-litter campaign and over the past 23 years, the initiative has highlighted the collective responsibility people share in tackling and preventing Ireland's national litter problem.

An Taisce announced the International Blue Flag and Green Coast Award recipients at a virtual ceremony this week.

Cllr Mike Crowe is unhappy with the manner in which An Taisce compiled a report on wastewater treatment in Galway.

Karen Community Garden (Grow it Yourself, Ballina) has been awarded the Green Flag Award for 2019.

Independent Galway West TD, Noel Grealish, in the March 28 edition of the Galway Advertiser, said the problems with the new proposed Ring Road/Inner Bypass lay less with the Galway City Council or An Bord Pleanála, but are mostly a consequence of the State’s planning laws.

An Taisce's Galway Association has submitted an appeal to An Bord Pleanala against the Galway City Council's decision to grant planning permission for the proposed Bonham Quay development.

The final litter survey of 2015 by Irish Business Against Litter shows Castlebar to be Clean to European Norms, in 23rd spot among the 40 towns surveyed. The town was deemed ‘littered’ back in 2013, when it was last surveyed.  There was a slight fall-off in the number of litter-free towns across Ireland, but no towns were deemed ‘litter blackspots’ and only one was ‘seriously littered’. The winning town will be announced at a function at lunchtime today in Buswells Hotel in Dublin.