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Minister for Education and Youth Hildegarde Naughton has announced a €48m investment in the new DEIS Plus Scheme which will include four Galway schools.

The revival of Ireland’s towns and village centres has become one of the defining challenges of modern planning, as communities grapple with vacancy, dereliction, and a shortage of accessible housing. The enhanced “Living Over the Shop” initiative—delivered through the expanded Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant—offers a practical and imaginative response to these intertwined issues. Welcomed by Séamus McGrath, housing spokesperson for Fianna Fáil, the scheme reflects a growing recognition that the answers to Ireland’s housing crisis and town centre decline may lie, quite literally, above our heads.

Colleran auctioneers has just been favoured with the sale of one of Galway’s landmark properties, Spires House, Shantalla Road, Galway that comes to the market with full planning permission to redevelop.

The year has been off to a strong start for our New Homes team nationally, with early volumes demonstrated across a wide variety of price points. In 2025, Sherry FitzGerald New Homes sold over 2,200 homes, primarily concentrated in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), Cork, Limerick and Galway with about twenty percent in the regional towns. Across the country in 2026, we have sale-agreed 50 per cent more homes in January/February compared to the same period in 2025.

Papers have been filed at the High Court seeking leave for a judicial review of the An Coimisiún Pleanála approval of the Gort Town Centre Public Realm Enhancement Project. Shane Foran, an active travel advocate, is taking the case which also involves a challenge to the Minister for Transport over disputed road design guidance. The scheme was approved in January and involves changes to roads around Gort town centre.

Minister Seán Canney welcomed the opportunity to connect with members of the Irish community in Seoul and Tokyo during engagements as part of his St Patrick’s Day programme in Asia.

Minister Seán Canney welcomed the opportunity to connect with members of the Irish community in Seoul and Tokyo during engagements as part of his St Patrick’s Day programme in Asia.

Papers have been filed at the High Court seeking leave for a judicial review of the An Coimisiún Pleanála approval of the Gort Town Centre Public Realm Enhancement Project. Shane Foran, an active travel advocate, is taking the case which also involves a challenge to the Minister for Transport over disputed road design guidance. The scheme was approved in January and involves changes to roads around Gort town centre.

Rising costs and competing priorities mean catering services on the Galway-Dublin rail line are unlikely to return in the near future, Fianna Fáil Galway West TD John Connolly has warned.

Galway City Council has appointed Dublin-based Flynn Management and Contractors for a €17 million fit-out of its new headquarters at Crown Square.