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Galway City Council has announced that following a restricted tender process, the contract for the development of a new Social Housing scheme named “Fána an tSrutháin” at Ballyburke, Galway, has been awarded to OCC Construction.

One of the new iconic structures of the changing face of Galway is currently entering a crucial stage.

The architectural skyline of Galway will change next month when a stunning new roof will span over the five platforms at the city’s Ceannt Station.

The station opened on August 1, 1851. The buildings and the Great Southern Hotel were designed by John Skipton Mulvany. It was originally planned to have the station at Renmore, but the well-known Father Peter Daly convinced the railway authorities to construct Lough Atalia Bridge and bring the trains into the centre of town. The fact that he owned tenement buildings on the site where the Great Southern was built may well have had something to do with it. These tenements were levelled to make way for the hotel and station.

At Monday’s meeting of Galway County Council with officials of the NTA, Cllr James Charity confirmed to the meeting that Local Link and NTA had issued confirmation that a tender for a new bus service for the North Galway region was due to issue in January 2023.

A public consultation taking place in Galway next week will outline new proposed cable routes for the Galway Hydrogen Hub (GH2) planned for the city.

Train users on the Galway-Dublin routes will experience some disruption this weekend as there will be service alterations in place.

Bus Éireann, Ireland’s national bus company, is encouraging country music fans in Galway to leave their cars at home when travelling to the Garth Brooks concerts in Dublin this week, by taking one of their special direct services from Galway Bus Station to Busáras in Dublin instead.

A public consultation on the long-term management of the Great Western Lakes got underway earlier this month and Inland Fisheries Ireland is urging the Galway public, especially the angling community and anyone who uses the lakes, or lives near them, to make a submission ahead of open evenings in Headford, Oughterard and Partry for the public in September.