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The fact that a housing applicant on the waiting list since 2002, has never been offered either a council house or a house from a voluntary body, is “incredible” and “reflective of a dysfunctional system” both at a local and State level.

That a housing applicant, on the waiting list since 2002, who has never been offered either a council house or a house from a voluntary body, is "incredible" and "reflective of a dysfunctional system" both at a local and State level.

Bathing water at Ballyloughane Beach remains unfit for use because long standing commitments for remedial and repair works on two storm outflow drains - which pump water into the area - have not been carried out.

As the bus strike drags into its second week, a Galway city councillor is calling on private bus operators to look into providing transport services for the east side of the city.

Almost 40 trees have been cut down across a 35 yard stretch of Lough Rusheen Park - the third such incident of the unauthorised felling of trees in public areas of Salthill/Knocknacarra over the last five months.

Allegations have been made that a mixture of “delay tactics”, no emergency planning, and a lack of finance in the Department of Housing are preventing 69 local authority houses from being built in Galway, as the city’s housing waiting list rises to almost 5,000 families.

A memorial in honour of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, and featuring the Proclamation, will be unveiled in Mervue, between McDonagh Avenue and Clarke Avenue, on Wednesday December 7 at 1pm.

More than 1,300 households on the housing waiting list risk being struck off under a new social housing needs assessment currently being carried out, Independent city councillor Mike Cubbard has warned.

“Disgusting” and “outrageous” is how a city councillor has branded a decision to cease running a long-standing school bus service from Westside to Claddagh from mid-October, adding that it seriously compromises City Hall’s plans to encourage greater use of public transport.

"Stop fiddling about with red tape" is the message of one local councillor to City Hall, who is demanding the local authority "press ahead immediately" with installing CCTV cameras to "combat crime" in estates on the east side of Galway.