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Connolly slams flooded minister on flood plan progress

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Where are the promised public consultations on Galway’s vital flood defences?

Flooded city centre dodges worst Debi damage

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It may not have been the worst storm flood of Galway’s medieval city centre, but residents, business owners and emergency workers all agree that Storm Debi was certainly one of the swiftest.

Uisce Éireann under pressure in east Galway city

With concerns growing that expansion of Galway’s eastern suburbs will be hampered by poor drainage infrastructure, Uisce Éireann has promised revised solutions for the district’s over-burdened waste water system.

Inadequate water treatment facility results in untreated water flowing into popular swimming beaches, says An Taisce

With the pipework to the city’s water treatment facility in Mutton Island not having sufficient capacity to process the city’s wastewater during times of even ‘relatively light rainfall events’, frequently rendering two popular beaches for local bathers as ‘unsuitable for swimming’, the planning committee of An Taisce is appealing to Galway City Council to address the urgent issue before adding more homes to the city water network.

City's insufficient water treatment facilities need to be urgently addressed, say Taisce

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With the city's water treatment facility in Mutton Island struggling to process the city's wastewater during times of even 'relatively light rainfall events', frequently rendering two popular beaches for local bathers as 'unsuitable for swimming', the planning committee of An Taisce is appealing to Galway City Council to address the urgent issue before adding more homes to the city water network.

Inis Caorach, Mutton Island

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In the year 1124, the town was put in a state of security and a strong castle was built at Dún Bun na Gaillimhe (the fortification at the mouth of the Galway River). Several times in the next century, the kings of Munster invaded Connacht bringing death and destruction and usually destroying the town and the buildings on the island. In 1190, there is a reference to Lismacuan, ‘The fort on the Mouth of the Harbour’

An ill wind blows good for a songwriter

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Engineering has more to do with your character, say women charged with developing Galway’s water needs

To mark the proximity of International Women’s Day and Engineering Week, local engineers hve outlined their role in ensuring that water services in Galway are capable of being developed in line with the expanding need.

A Galway story that intrigued James Joyce

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New plans projected over a 20 year period will see the inner lands of Galway harbour developed into an attractive commercial and residential area, while reclaimed land from the sea will push out harbour facilities into deep water to accommodate shipping connections to European ports and elsewhere. It is a long over due and worthwhile plan, but it pales almost into insignificance compared to the vaulting ambitions the Galway merchants schemed in the mid 19th century.

The Lighthouse Project - ‘Claiming and mapping a space for creativity’

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THE CONFINEMENTS of the lockdowns and the severe limits on travel have restricted us all to our own localities, and for many that means passing by the same places, the same objects, and the same sights.

 

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