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Listening to the concerns of the people and working to ensure a safe city that embraces multiculturalism, that anti-social behaviour is stamped out, and infrastructure projects such as the Galway City Outer Bypass are progressed, are just some of the ways Galway’s newest city councillor Michelle Murphy hopes to make a difference.

Councillors have called on Galway City Council to “get it together” and draw up an accurate register of fixed assets throughout the city after an independent audit report expressed concerns over the inadequacy of the registration progress.

Branded as a “noose” around Galway City Council’s neck, an audit report has found that Leisureland continues to lose money suffering a loss of more than €620,000 last year. However, this figure is being disputed by councillors on the facility’s board of directors who maintain the deficit is actually €180,000.

Galway City Community Forum will celebrate the work of the community and voluntary sector in Galway at its last quarterly meeting of the year next week.

NUI Galway and the Galway City Council have a duty to provide St Michael’s GAA Club with suitable facilities now that work is about to begin on the Westside Sports Complex.

Barna Waste has reinvented itself as Barna Recycling after being named this week as the preferred bidder to take over Galway City Council’s household waste collection service.

Some 10,000 men, women, and children are waiting for a home in Galway city, with some families enduring waits of up to 11 or 12 years for a two bed-roomed house.

Some 10,000 men, women, and children are waiting for a home in Galway city, with some families enduring waits of up to 11 or 12 years for a two bed-roomed house.

A city councillor has slammed the Government’s decision to abolish the Bereavement Grant and called on the the council to restore Sunday burials by transferring staff from the soon-to-be abolished refuse service.

Despite the tendering process to privatise the household waste collection service being already at the half way stage, many city councillors are still calling on city manager Brendan McGrath to reconsider his controversial decision which they describe as a “mythical sale” and a further culling of the power of elected members.