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Two local groups have joined forces to organise a city event which will highlight the prevalence and impact of domestic violence on women and children. The issue affects one in five women in Ireland.

The budget 2014, with a projected expenditure of €80.5 million for the coming year, was adopted at a special meeting of the Galway City Council last Friday.

The Galway City Council’s Housing Department has begun its Housing Needs Assessment with a view to competing its work by April.

September is National Heart Month, and to mark the event the Irish Heart Foundation is holding a national blood pressure roadshow offering free blood pressure checks to community groups, the public, and Traveller organisations including the Galway Traveller Movement.

Volunteering is about making time for others and contributing to your community. Yet it also has personal benefits - it can introduce you to new ways to thinking, broaden your horizons and experience, and equip you with skills to make you attractive to potential employers.

Don’t let the doom and gloom wear you down, this is the message being promoted by a group of Traveller women in Galway who are taking that advice to heart and striving forth in their bid to succeed in business and entrepreneurship.

The ‘Empowering Traveller Women Entrepreneurs’ (ETWE) project is to be officially launched next Monday, December 5, at the Ballybane Enterprise Centre where the Galway Traveller Movement will host an event for women to share their experiences about how they are overcoming barriers in business.

Galway city will mark International Day Against Racism with an event in the Amnesty International Café, Middle Street, tomorrow from 4pm to 6pm.

The group of Travellers who have moved onto the car park of the football pitch at Millars Lane, Rahoon have vowed not to leave the site until suitable accommodation is secured.

The Galway Traveller Movement will present Pride - A Celebration of Traveller Culture in the Temperance Hall Loughrea on Wednesday at 7.30pm.