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

Fine Gael Councillor Eddie Hoare has welcomed the National Transport Authority’s (NTA) proposal for a new Park and Ride facility at Cappagh, describing it as “a positive and much-needed step toward tackling traffic congestion and improving sustainable transport options for Galway City.”

As it unfolded that Catherine Connolly would walk the presidential election, politicos began plotting for a Galway West by-election which must fill her vacant Dáil seat by May 11.

Cllr Eddie Hoare has called on Uisce Éireann to urgently address the ongoing and unacceptable interruptions to the water supply affecting residents in the wider Circular Road area in Galway City.

The city’s aldermen and councillors: resplendent, ready, primed for their solemn, septennial duty to protect us from scallywags and scoundrels seeking to squat in Phoenix Park.

Scrapping parking machines across Galway city is a policy being worked on by senior city council officials.

Disgraced whiskey distiller Conor McGregor is the most high-profile name seeking a five-minute audience with Galway’s city’s 18 councillors on Monday, September 15, alongside nine other presidential hopefuls at time of going to press.

Following months of local speculation concerning where the soon-to-be ex-president, and his wife, Sabina Higgins, may move to in Galway city, Higgins confirmed in a recent radio interview that they will return to Rahoon after residing in Áras an Uchtaráin since his election in 2011.

Following that meeting on Monday, and an early morning tour of the new Mervue HQ for journalists, nearly all councillors voted to approve an historic €60 million, 30-year loan at their July plenary meeting. This will pay for some of the fit-out of Crown Square, but there will be plenty left over for other capital projects.

Cllr Eddie Hoare (FG) has voiced his opposition to the Football Association of Ireland’s (FAI) decision to move the Irish football season to the calendar year.