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Galway County Council has set out ambitious plans to expand and retrofit its County Hall headquarters at the September Plenary Meeting this week, announcing its intention to consolidate all staff and services under one roof by 2031, following an extension estimated to cost €61.8 million.

A high-level Galway delegation has attended a special meeting of Milwaukee City Council in Wisconsin, USA, to mark more than two decades of civic, cultural, and economic links between the two cities.

After more than four weeks without working phone lines, businesses and services in Headford are finally reconnected. It was confirmed by eir on Monday evening that service has been restored, bringing relief to a community that has endured serious disruption.

This week, Galway County Council became just the second local authority in the country to launch an online pre-planning enquiry system.

Independent councillor Terry O’Flaherty has called for more action to be taken against dog owners who allow their pets to foul on footpaths, beaches, green areas and playing pitches throughout the city.

Galway’s two local authorities have been asked to brace themselves for busy weekends across the city and county by providing adequate litter and toilet facilities at popular recreation spots.

"Achieving gender equality for women and girls is the greatest unfinished business of our times. Seventy eight per cent of those on the frontline healthcare are women, we were never more reliant and grateful for their work than we have been this year."

The role of local media in getting information out to rural communities is immense, this week’s meeting of the Galway County Council Joint Policing Committee was told.

The pressure felt by women who work as local authority elected members “just weeks after giving birth”, owing to a lack of proper maternity provision in the State, is “simply unacceptable in 2021”.

Fianna Fáil members in Galway have welcomed the decision by the party leader, Michael Martin, to give all members of the organisation a vote in Government formation.