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A private meeting of potential election candidates was held in Galway city last week to hammer out a potential voting alliance in May’s Galway West by-election.

Ireland stands at a pivotal moment where the lessons of our past and the uncertainties of tomorrow demand clear-eyed reflection and prudent action. For decades, neutrality was mis-sold as defencelessness, our Defence Forces were pared back in the belief that peace was permanent and threats were far away.

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless T.D. this week launched a new cybersecurity executive education programme at University of Galway.

Speculation is growing that the government’s imminent National Development Plan (NDP) will include a massive infrastructure upgrade originally designed to attract a €9 billion investment from Intel for the west of Ireland.

Speculation is growing that the government’s imminent National Development Plan (NDP) will include a massive infrastructure upgrade originally designed to attract a €9 billion investment from Intel for the west of Ireland.

Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB) is calling on the Government to commit to tackling inequalities in the education sector by supporting the priorities laid out in the #SupportYourLocalETB campaign. Representatives from Galway and Roscommon ETB met with members of the Oireachtas at a briefing event in Buswells Hotel, Dublin, recently where they expressed their concerns.

‘Commemorating the armistice, reflecting on disbandment, and looking to the future’ a short talk by Dr Tony King, Connaught Rangers Association Liaison Officer, will be given at Menlo Park Hotel this Sunday November 13 at 4.30pm.

Independent Councillor Geraldine Donohue has called for common sense to prevail to allow “the wind to blow and power to flow” from the turbines at Derrybrien on the hills on Slieve Aughty, Co Galway.

Calls have been made this week to change the streetscape of the city to make it more conducive to social distancing over the duration of the Covid-19 crisis.

The Government's decision to "remove" Galway's chance to have a directly elected mayor "once again shows that Galway is an afterthought to those in Dublin," according to the Social Democrat's Owen Hanley.