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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.

Galway City Council has delayed its move to new headquarters at Crown Square until March 2027 at the latest.

City budget meetings are either boring or fractious, but this one was a political masterclass.

Next week’s annual budget meeting in City Hall is expected to be a brutal clash between officials and councillors on proposed rates hikes.

Galway City Council has vowed to sort out the shambolic car-parking situation across town.

Galway city manager Leonard Cleary has still not decided on a proposed rent increase for council house tenants which received widespread criticism from local politicians when first mooted in June.

Councillors will be shown a design animation at their monthly plenary meeting next week, a fortnight after they first toured the building on the Monivea Road purchased by the previous city council.

“I’m young enough” he maintains, as the 53-year-old steeples his hands thoughtfully, sitting in the boardroom in City Hall. This prayer-like posture comes naturally for an ordained deacon of the Catholic church, who ranks his family, faith and a community-development based approach to his work, as the three pillars of his worldview.