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Local Fianna Fáil Cllr Michael Crowe has welcomed Cabinet approval this week to amend legislation in order to increase sentences for knife crime.

Cllr Michael Crowe this week confirmed the timelines for the various stages and completion of the new all-weather facility to be built at the back of the community centre on Renmore Avenue.

The Galway City Council’s first meeting of 2024 began with icy stares rather than heated debate this week.

Renmore AFC is to hold a competition for young footballers this month that will draw more than 250 players together for a novel fundraiser with a World Cup format.

This week’s meeting of the Joint Policing Committee of Galway City Council got off to a stormy start when councillors complained that they felt untrusted by Gardai because the crime stats reports normally furnished before a meeting would not be circulated until afterwards.

Public representatives must be advocates for inclusion and not support bigotry and social exclusion, the head of the Labour Party in Galway has said after controversial comments were made by a city councillor last week about the alleged incompatability of Traveller and settled cultures.

Dear Editor,

The current membership of the Galway City Council started their term almost two years ago in a welter of controversy surrounding the forming of a political alliance to hold the balance of power (and positions) for the following five years.

Independent Galway West TD, Noel Grealish, in the March 28 edition of the Galway Advertiser, said the problems with the new proposed Ring Road/Inner Bypass lay less with the Galway City Council or An Bord Pleanála, but are mostly a consequence of the State’s planning laws.