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The Irish Soap and Candle Company has opened its new Galway shop in Middle Street.

A meeting takes place in Brussels next week to find a way to avoid conflict between the EU Environment Commission, the Irish courts, and local and national Government over the future of the controversial Galway City Outer Bypass.

Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has become the first Irish woman and the first Galwegian to be appointed as an EU Commissioner for Ireland, although her elevation to the job is already shrouded in controversy.

In advance of an EU directive, expected to take effect on January 1, which would see turf cutting banned, Fine Gael Longford/ Westmeath Senator Nicky McFadden has said Minister Gormley must ensure that Ireland retains broad flexibility on how we maintain and use our bog lands.

Beef farmers will get a boost from the re-opening of the United Arab Emirates market to Irish beef according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

From bad to worse. In the darkest weeks of winter. In the weeks leading up to the winter equinox, when the days will get longer again, Galway families are asking themselves just how much more hardship they can take.

The heavy rainfall which has blighted east and south Galway, Clare, and Cork has inflicted damage that could cost between €500 million and €972 million, leading to EU funds being urgently sought.

A Government minister has slammed claims by Fine Gael TD Michael Ring that the “Government are raiding the fund for struggling farmers to pay for Irish language bureaucracy”.

A “comprehensive study” of why so many houses in east Galway were flooded must be conducted so informed action can be taken to prevent such devastation from happening again.

The cost of electronic sheep tagging far outweighs the benefits with regard to traceability, and the introduction of this measure could be the death knell for the sheep industry in Ireland.