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The Government's decision to "remove" Galway's chance to have a directly elected mayor "once again shows that Galway is an afterthought to those in Dublin," according to the Social Democrat's Owen Hanley.

A very wicked man recently suggested to Insider that the coming race for supremacy on the soft left in Galway West should be solved by a wrestling match between the Mayor of Galway, Labour city councillor, Niall McNelis, and Niall Ó Tuathail of the Social Democrats.

The Square appears as a green piece of land outside the city walls on the early maps of Galway. The 1651 map shows it more or less in the shape it is today. In 1710, Edward Eyre (whose family had come over with the Cromwellians) became mayor of the city. He lived in a house roughly where the Meyrick Hotel is today and the patch of land in front of his house was known as ‘The Mayor’s Garden’. He presented it to the city and it became known as Eyre Square

Members of the public interested in volunteering are being invited to the Galway City Volunteer Recruitment Fair in the Galway Bay Hotel this Sunday [January 27] between 2pm and 5pm.

I often wonder about the amount of wisdom that filters through our lives unused. The stories untold, the knowledge unshared, the information that is left under-utilised. All of our communities feature hundreds of people who have a major contribution to make to the betterment of life, yet there is often no facilitation of this expertise.

Can I compliment you and the Galway Advertiser for the beautiful and heartwarming tribute that you paid last week to Nora. For decades, she has been a mainstay of the streetscape of Galway city. Everybody encountered her.

The surviving mayors of Galway city have this week stated their committment to becoming ambassadors for the embattled Galway 2020 project. With less than 50 weeks until the city becomes the official European Capital of Culture, the group of mayors have promised to do all they can to ensure that the project is a resounding success.

Mayor of Galway, Niall McNeilis has sent his condolences to the family, friends, and constituents of Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdansk, who died this week after being stabbed at a concert.

The Mayor of Athlone Municipal District, Cllr. Frankie Keena, has informed the Athlone Advertiser this week that Westmeath County Council has gone to tender to source a contractor to carry out work on the Private Kelly Memorial Town Park in Moate, with the desired hope that the relevant personnel will be chosen by the end of February, or early March.

South Dublin Council is going green with the purchase of five Citroen Berlingos replacing old petrol and diesel vehicles