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Call for city council to honour labour and finance commitments to invest in city parks
Community activists are calling on Galway City Council to honour pre-Covid budgetary commitments to substantially increase labour and financial resources in the city’s parks, as well as to immediately implement the lessons learnt from the lockdown that safe well-maintained biodiversity-rich urban green and blue spaces are vital to people’s health and that of the planet.
Irish traffic returning to pre-pandemic levels
The level of traffic throughout Ireland is returning to pre-pandemic levels, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has said.
Gardenwise | What’s In a Name?
When I’m discussing planting plans with clients they’re sometimes nonplussed by the botanical names of plants, and it’s hard to blame them - after all, not many of us are familiar with Latin in the twenty first century. There’s a very good reason for using them, though, and it’s not just to baffle you with hard to pronounce tongue twisters.
New lighting in South Park and Blackrock will 'extend the prom in winter'
Public lighting along South Park, and from Blackrock to the caravan park, will be "welcomed by those who regularly walk" both areas, and such lighting will have the effect of "extending the Promenade in winter time”.
Amazon announces new wind farm project in Galway
Amazon have announced a new 115-megawatt (MW) wind farm project in Ardderroo, Galway, which will begin operating in 2022, and will support their Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the country.
New book examines changes in bird species migration to Clare Island
110 years ago Robert Lloyd Praeger brought a group of eminent European scientists to Clare Island to map the flora, fauna, geology and archaeology of the small, exposed Atlantic island off the coast of Mayo.
Ballina Community Cleanups wins Get Ireland Growing Community Growbox
Ballina Community Cleanups in Mayo has been announced as the latest weekly winner in the GIY and Energia Get Ireland Growing community initiative.
Smoky Coal Ban extended to include Castlebar, Ballina and surrounding townlands
The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Eamon Ryan TD, has signed Regulations to give legal effect to the extension of the smoky coal ban to all towns with populations of over 10,000 people.
Castlebar and Ballina can now avail of local authority funding to help communities respond to Covid-19
Castlebar and Ballina can now avail of local authority funding for projects to help in the response to Covid-19, Fine Gael Deputy Alan Dillon has said.
Forests in Mayo see significant increase in visitor numbers since Covid-19 restrictions eased
Coillte has released new figures revealing that there was a large increase in visitor numbers to some recreation forests in Mayo.