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COPE Galway has expressed disappointment on the absence of a dedicated funding stream in Budget 2027 for the long-promised Child and Family Homelessness Action Plan.

Martin O’Connor’s decision to write his book, called Early Childhood Intervention – Time for a New Conversation was inspired by an article he read in The Irish Times on November 10, 2024.

Our first image today is a beautiful study of part of Shop Street c1900. It is one of a number of Galway city photographs that are in an old album belonging to Norman Healy whom we thank for sharing it with us. The two women in the foreground are in their working clothes, plain black shawls and práiscíns which were heavy canvas working aprons used to carry vegetables or maybe fish in, or wear when they were washing clothes. One is carrying a basket which probably contained product she had to sell, possibly eggs, country butter or vegetables. The other lady may have had a basket strapped to her back. The gentleman behind is wearing an impressive white báinín jacket.

Athlone Golf Club will host the culmination of Golf Ireland’s 2022 inter-club season from Thursday, September 29 to Sunday, October 2.

Every week sees an extra family end up homeless and dependant on emergency accommodation in Galway, according to COPE Galway.

Modh Eile House, the new home of COPE Galway’s domestic abuse services for women and children in Galway, has secured an Irish Council for Social Housing Allianz Community Housing award for 2021.

With 400 people seeking accommodation for homeless on one night last week, COPE Galway has set out a number of measures in their submission on the upcoming Budget 2022 to the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure to respond to the needs of the people they support.,

Welcoming the publication of the new Government Housing plan, ‘Housing for All’, COPE Galway have described this plan as critical to the lives of many people who are experiencing the negative effects of the current housing crisis.

The area we know as Devon Park in Salthill was originally part of the Lenaboy estate which belonged to the O’Hara family, who were based in Lenaboy Castle. The entire left hand side of our aerial photograph (c1940) was part of the estate, originally a green field site, the outer wall of which ran along the main Salthill Road. Bertie Simmons knocked part of that wall in the early 1930s and built two houses, one at the corner (where the fish shop is today) and one behind it where Hartigans lived.

 The housing crisis in Galway city is worsening with 17 new families joining the homeless list in the city over the past eight weeks.