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After a mammoth process, beset with delay, error, legal challenges, oral hearings, environmental concern, remittance, competing analyses, pandemic, demolition of families’ homes, fundamental questions of public policy, falcons, horses, bats, butterflies, and whatever-your-having-yourself, in April, the 18km route from Coolagh to the R336 Coast Road was finally granted planning permission.

The Grand Old Dame of Eyre Square will finally undergo a €1.2 million facelift on her most unappealing side.

The Galway City Ring Road took another significant step this week. Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers has confirmed that the project is expected to be included in the first block of roughly 10 schemes nationwide to be designated as critical infrastructure under legislation passed by the Dáil last month, with water, energy and transport prioritised in this initial round. For a project that has spent more than two decades in planning, this development changes the landscape in ways worth understanding.

An appeals tribunal has found that a Malawi man is not gay despite the man showing photos of himself attending a Pride parade and his participation in a Galway LGBTQI+ organisation.

After 14 months in suspended animation, the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (GMATS) is moving again. The National Transport Authority and Galway City Council have restarted work on the plan that will shape how our city moves for the next two decades, covering everything from Bus Connects and active travel to the long-discussed Gluas light rail.

Clients of barristers and solicitors based in Galway filed 75 complaints with the Legal Services Regulatory Authority last year.

Six weeks ago in this column, I described the approval of the N6 Galway City Ring Road as potentially the most consequential planning decision for Galway’s housing market in a generation. I meant every word of it. The relief felt across the region when An Coimisiún Pleanála finally issued that decision in April was real and it was earned, the product of more than 30 years of planning, campaigning, legal battles, and hard money spent.

A YOUNG plasterer wanted to make a clean sweep of all the traffic charges brought against him, his solicitor told Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court on Tuesday.

The planning file was updated last Friday, March 27, and a number of senior government politicians have let it be known that they expect news soon, although there has been no indication as to whether a grant or refusal is the outcome.

The former Galway West TD appointed seven people to the highest advisory body in the land this week, six months into her term, with her choices emphasising themes of reconciliation, human rights and linguistic heritage.