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Empowering and inspiring European citizens to become citizens of the sea is one of the key goals of the European Commission’s forthcoming Mission for Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters. The Marine Institute and the European Commission are inviting the people of Ireland to complete an online survey on their level of awareness about our oceans and seas, and share what they believe are the top priorities for the health of our ocean.

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.

The level of traffic throughout Ireland is returning to pre-pandemic levels, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has said.

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.

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 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.

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 in Mayo has been announced as the latest weekly winner in the GIY and Energia Get Ireland Growing community initiative.

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 for projects to help in the response to Covid-19, Fine Gael Deputy Alan Dillon has said.