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In the current economic climate, no proposals should be made which will hurt business and trade in Galway city, so the decision to close Lower Merchants Road to traffic makes no sense.

Castlebar Town Council withdrew part of the planning permission for McHale Park at its monthly meeting last Thursday. The meeting, which was attended by a large number of the residents of McHale Road, but not by members of the Mayo County Board, saw a motion put forward by independent councillor Frank Durcan and seconded by fellow independent councillor and Mayor of the town Michael Kilcoyne passed by six votes to three in the chamber.

Galway city is about to get 21 new bus shelters but far more are needed and many more still await repairs and renovation and City Hall must address this immediately.

If the Job Initiative Programme is closed down as recommended by the notorious McCarthy Report, many will go unemployed and the work of community organisations will suffer.

Controversy over the Galway City Outer Bypass continues to rumble on but long term plans for the Seamus Quirke Road, raised at Monday’s city council meeting, show there are more positive ways of tackling the city’s traffic congestion.

Ceann Comhairle John O’Donoghue has finally succumbed to public and political pressure and resigned. Well actually after the weekend he will take the shameful step, that is if the Government haven’t already fallen. 

Third level fees might not be about to be reintroduced but that does not mean there will not be a hike in registration fees, which will make education more highly expensive than it already is.

It is unacceptable for NUI, Galway not to provide a proper park and ride facility and unacceptable for students, or “mannerless future academics,” to park illegally in areas of Newcastle.

Labour councillor Billy Cameron has called for legal action to be taken against NUI, Galway for alleged “illegal erection of communications equipment” in Newcastle Lower.

Labour Councillor Harry Barrett has welcomed Labour’s first stage of the Planning And Development (Taking In Charge Of Estates) Bill 2009, which is designed to make it easier for residents in housing estates to force developers to complete to the satisfaction of their local council, any work that may be required on roads, open spaces, car parks, sewers, watermains, drains, or other public facilities.