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Senator Ollie Crowe has this week welcomed The Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Act 2022 which will see employees given legal rights over the payment of tips. The legislation will come into effect from December 1 2022.

Local cycling and disability activists have long been battling to remove kissing gates from parks and walkways across the city.

Local Fine Gael Councillor, John Naughten, has welcomed the publication of plans for a roundabout and pedestrian crossing at Cloonakilla National School.

Over the next few weeks, Galway will one again thankfully feel the rush of fresh blood through its veins when thousands of students come here for an experience that one hopes will be a positive one, and will help them forge a link with this city that they will hold for the rest of their lives.

Between the years 1845 and 1855 more than 2.1 million people emigrated from Ireland. They streamed into Liverpool, Manchester, Boston and New York. Many were diseased, hungry, dirty, broken spirited, with barely any personal belongings. Some embarked actually naked.

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Before the cock crows five times, the belief is that the country will be in election mode. Not a dog will be able to relieve itself against the base of a telegraph pole for fear of having a ladder placed on his paw. Not a handshake or a greeting will be uttered by an upstart candidate that won’t be cynically mistaken for a canvass. And the stage will be set for what will be perhaps the most open and unpredictable general election in modern times as the parties and their people stomp from door to door to get your vote.

As part of the national Europe Day celebrations, on May 9, the pupils of Craggagh National School took part in the countrywide Shake Hands for Europe initiative.