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The city’s Mayor has collected enough signatures to schedule an emergency session of Galway city council, while calls are growing for a separate, public meeting to discuss rebranding the local authority.

The Mayor of the City of Galway has formally demanded the city’s ancient coat of arms be included in any rebranding of the city council.

The Galway City Council is committing to feed a population of squirrels in Merlin Woods for 10 years.

The Galway City Council is committing to feed a population of squirrels in Merlin Woods for 10 years.

A €2 million rooftop helipad will cap University Hospital Galway’s €4 billion redevelopment, despite the HSE’s controversial purchase of Shantalla parkland to build a ground-level heliport.

In May last year, a task force was set-up to coordinate gardaí, Galway city council staff, environmental health officials, vermin control, medical authorities and a local charity.

There were harsh words, recriminations, accusations and apologies in City Hall this week over the emotive topic of Knocknacarra’s Western Distributor Road, but relief and joy about the Ring Road planning decision.

The group of concerned residents says it has resorted to asking Advertiser readers, who drive, to chose main road routes if they are not visiting their neighbourhood, plagued by rat runners seeking to skip traffic lights on the Old Dublin Road.

Last month, city councillors were sent to spend two days over the border, in County Galway, to Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta, in the South Conamara Gaeltacht, and their immersion in spoken Irish clearly paid off, with “the amadán from the Advertiser” forced to rely on a translation service to report.

The body set up to implement Galway’s winning 2020 European City of Culture bid, and its legacy, was unsuccessfully invited to attend Galway City Council three times last year, to explain its recent activities.