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This is the time of year when parents are preparing to get their children ready for going back to school, when the kids are feeling sorry for themselves, and their days of carefree freedom in the sunshine are coming to an end.

The Gluas Committee said it very much welcomed “positive comments” made by Martin last month when the Cork TD was visiting Galway to open the Crown Square development.

GAA heroics

GAA heroics

On January 15, 1827 two Patrician Brothers, Paul O’Connor and James Walsh, took up residence in Lombard Street and set up the Monastery School. The attendance on that first day was 300 boys, many of whom had little interest in learning because they were poor and hungry. So the Brothers set up The Poor Boy’s Breakfast Institute in May 1830. It continued seven days a week, 365 days a year for many years after the founders' time. The breakfast consisted of porridge with molasses or treacle, and during the Famine, they fed 1,000 boys every day. The ‘Old Mon’ became a vital cog in education in Galway.

A Galway native and advocate of the Galway light rail option GLUAS has been awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award by the Insitution of Civil Engineers.

The Gluas Committee invites Galway citizens to attend a public meeting on Tuesday next to discuss traffic congestion in Galway City and solutions to the problem, such as the Very Light Rail option.

If Galway is to solve the scourge of traffic congestion “official thinking" in City Hall must change, and that change has to include a proper "examination and evaluation of a light rail system for the city".