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Mayo County Council has welcomed the news that Cross Beach has retained its Green Coast award for 2022, bringing the total Green Coast awards for Mayo up to six for the coming season.

Bord na Móna has been busy welcoming back winter visitors to its peatlands across the Midlands region - Sean Doyle, a member of the Ecology Team finding evidence of the Common Crane at a new site in the River Shannon floodplain.

A total of €44,000 has been set aside in the Galway City Council budget to carry out a feasibility study on re-introducing the tidal pools at Ladies Beach in Salthill.

THE BRILLIANT Galway pop-rock trio, Rofi James, release their new single, ‘Berlin Wall’ on Friday November 26, and play a Galway city show next month.

Common cranes which set up home on a rewetted Bord na Móna Midlands peatland earlier this year successfully hatched two baby chicks in May, the first recorded birth of Crane chicks in Ireland in over 300 years.

Works began this week to widen the entrance to Ballyloughane Beach and to remove weeds and bushes that were obstructing views from oncoming traffic.

Galway city councillors have expressed concern that the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme might not be ready until 2028.

Ballyglass RNLI and Belmullet Tidal Pool Swimmers have won a golden welly award for their recent fundraising efforts for the charity that saves lives at sea.

Galway is to receive €1.2m of a €17.3m climate adaptation investment programme for regional and local roads.

An Taisce announced the International Blue Flag and Green Coast Award recipients at a virtual ceremony this week.