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Apple’s efforts to extend planning permission for a site where it once planned an €850 million data centre, has raised concerns about the tech giant’s ultimate aims for the site, and prompted fears that any new centre could cause environmental damage and severely impact electricity supply in the west.

Spanning three decades, Kevin Burke Tyres (KBT) has transitioned from a tyre retailer catering to the local area to one of the largest wholesale tyre providers in the country.

“It has a brand name like no other,” Paul O’Brien says with a drop of hope about Galway and how the town will flourish again. These are radically different times and the deserted city streets illustrate how much everyday life has changed.

Defence forces staff should be transferred to contact tracing duties immediately to allow speech therapists, physiotherapists and occupational therapists to return to providing essential frontline services for children across the Country, local Independent Deputy Denis Naughten TD told the Dáil in recent times.

Fine Gael Galway East Deputy Ciaran Cannon has today insisted that routing the Dublin - Galway Greenway through the town of Athenry is an absolute necessity.

The first phase of public consultation for the new Galway to Athlone Cycleway project is underway and will continue until next week.

The first phase of public consultation for the new Galway to Athlone Cycleway project is underway and will continue until next week.

Early on Easter Monday morning, April 24 1916, the Galway Volunteers sprang into action. It was a chaotic beginning to the rebellion which hoped to see a nation-wide rising of fully armed and committed men and women seizing control of the country. We know, however, the capture of the ship Aud, with its weapons, explosives and ammunition, off the Kerry coast on Good Friday, prompted the Dublin leadership to cancel the Rising. The order was ignored by Padraic Pearse and others, who had the benefit of arms imported into Howth two years previously. They took over key positions throughout Dublin city, which they held for six days.

Early on Easter Monday morning, April 24 1916, the Galway Volunteers sprang into action. It was a chaotic beginning to the rebellion which hoped to see a nation-wide rising of fully armed and committed men and women seizing control of the country. We know, however, the capture of the ship Aud, with its weapons, explosives and ammunition, off the Kerry coast on Good Friday, prompted the Dublin leadership to cancel the Rising. The order was ignored by Padraic Pearse and others, who had the benefit of arms imported into Howth two years previously. They took over key positions throughout Dublin city, which they held for six days.

FACETS, AN exhibition featuring work by Athenry based artists Mary Ryan, Vincent Godfrey-Glynn and Patricia Fahy, and the writer Trish Bourke, is running at The Portershed.