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The housing department at the Galway City Council is understaffed, overworked, and unable to meet demands, according to a number of city councillors.

City Hall officials cannot ignore a report which they commissioned which says that a proposed new bus corridor for the Dublin Road must not run through Merlin Park Woods.

City Hall’s budget must be altered to protect people on social welfare pensions so they do not lose their waiver, according to Independent city councillor Declan McDonnell.

Charging rates on vacant premises would generate an additional €2 million in income each year for the Galway City Council and could lead to a rate reduction for all businesses of five per cent.

The changes enforced by councillors to the Galway City Council budget will bring about improvements and benefits for citizens, tourists, and businesses across the city.

Serious questions were raised at Monday’s city council meeting to have land in Ballindooley listed as a heritage site, which some councillors suspected was a means to block a proposed Traveller halting site for the area.

“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public - Robert F Kennedy

“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public - Robert F Kennedy

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny used the words dysfunction, disconnection, elitism, and narcissism in describing the culture dominating the Vatican with regard to the cover-ups of clerical sex abuse in Ireland, and rightly so.

Those who wrote off Mervue's chances of a shock victory in Gortakeegan last week received a timely reminder of the prowess of Johnny Glynn's outfit as they returned with a fine 2-1 success.