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THE CELEBRATED Irish language poet Gabriel Rosenstock, will read from his translation of an anthology of poems by Guantanamo prisoners in Galway tonight.

Overgrown hedging and trees along the railway line wall in Renmore will be trimmed back according to Independent city councillor Terry O’Flaherty.

There was great celebration this week with the news that planning permission has been granted by An Bord Pleanála for the new Coláiste na Coiribe all Irish secondary school in Knocknacarra.

Landscaping works on the Lough Atalia Road, which cost more than €23,000, have been overtaken by weeds and grass, and a local councillor has condemned the costs and disrepair as “a waste of money”.

City Hall has taken a temporary vow of silence over allegations from a leading city councillor that the local authority is to privatise its refuse service.

Action must be taken against the illegal parking of caravans at beaches throughout the city, a situation highlighted by recent incidents at Ballyloughane beach.

Seven horses were seized in early morning raids in Ballybane this week. The horses were removed from a house in the area which had been boarded up for a considerable period.

The burnt, skeletal carcass of an animal, discovered at the rear of the playground in Sliabh Ban, Ballybane, may not be the only instance of such maltreatment in the city.

Youths enjoying the sunny weather in Salthill are being targeted by a gang of thugs, with one boy requiring medical attention after he was beaten up and his front teeth broken, members of the Galway City Joint Policing Committee (JPC) were told this week.

Handing over zoned residential land to the Housing Agency has been described as an “absurd idea” when Galway has one of the worst housing crises in the country, that is according to Independent City Councillor Catherine Connolly.