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Government funding of €13.25 million has been allocated for Galway greenways as part of a €63.5 million nationwide investment in cycleways and walkways.

Westmeath Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, is imploring the support of his political colleagues as she brings to second stage within Dáil Éireann the River Shannon Management Agency Bill.

Toyota has announced a range of offers to help drivers change from diesel into lower emission cars, like self-charging hybrid electric cars.

Last Thursday, President Michael D. Higgins gave a powerful thought-provoking speech to an online (via Webex) meeting of people of all ages drawn from a wide strata of local society on why the movement towards transforming Galway into a National Park City is so crucial at this particular time in human history due to unprecedented climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics, and why it can be a template for other cities in Ireland to follow.

Deputy Michael Ring TD has received confirmation that the third tranche in 2020 of grant awards by the Fisheries Local Action Group established under Ireland’s European Maritime and Fisheries Fund Programme, has been allocated to four groups in Mayo. The grants are co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union.

In response to both the current situation and the future remote working opportunity, Grow Remote in collaboration with LOETB, IDA Ireland and SOLAS has created a new online national training programme that will develop the capability and capacity of those wishing to become RemoteWorkers.

Galway City West and Knocknacarra Councillor Donal Lyons has welcomed this week’s announcement that Galway City Council intends to carry out road works at the Seamus Quirke Road/Rahoon Road Junction.

Crane’s Strand or Tráigh na gCorr appears on the 1651 map. It would seem to be the Whitestrand area before the building of Grattan Road. In Dutton’s 1824 survey we read: “It seems to be the general opinion of the oldest inhabitants that for some years past, storms and rains have been more frequent from the west than formerly. (Rice was sown here in 1585). As some corroboration of this idea, the encroachment of the sea near Recorder’s Quay on the west side of Galway, may be adduced, where the marks of the potato ridges may be seen, and where, only a few years ago were in cultivation, though they are now covered at every tide. Lately, the ground near Recorder’s Quay has been reclaimed by Mr Bulteel, and promises to remunerate his very spirited exertion.” (Probably the first ever reclamation of land in Salthill).

Ireland’s new motor tax system announced in the recent Budget will see new car buyers who opt for more sustainable vehicles, such as hybrid electrics and EVs, benefit with better value through lower VRT. Petrol and diesel cars with higher emissions will be more expensive.

Grass cuttings and felled branches from neighbourhoods clean-ups will no longer be collected by the Galway City Council, the council chief executive, Brendan McGrath, has confirmed.