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Car parking was a major theme of Galway City Council’s final meeting of the year, but the authority’s full agenda was not completed after byelaws were updated for the first time since 2009.

Official figures from registered landlords indicate that by the end of the year, more than 1,000 evictions will have taken place across Galway in 2025.

The inaugural meeting of the Galway City Local Community Safety Partnership (LCSP) took place at the Radisson Red last week. Representatives from Galway City Council, An Garda Síochána, Tusla, community organisations, and local residents gathered to begin shaping a collaborative approach to community safety under the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act 2024.

City budget meetings are either boring or fractious, but this one was a political masterclass.

As it unfolded that Catherine Connolly would walk the presidential election, politicos began plotting for a Galway West by-election which must fill her vacant Dáil seat by May 11.

The city’s aldermen and councillors: resplendent, ready, primed for their solemn, septennial duty to protect us from scallywags and scoundrels seeking to squat in Phoenix Park.

Galway city councillors expressed tetchiness on Monday afternoon when none of the seven candidates seeking their support arrived on time for their presidential nomination hearings.

As the city gears up for its annual Culture Night tomorrow, Friday, September 19, one politician says local artists need certainty on the €25 million fund if they are to continue to create art for public consumption which is not commercially viable.

Minister for local government, James Browne, is yet to receive a request from Galway City Council to approve its €60 million loan to fit out the empty commercial shell it owns in Crown Square.

Scrapping parking machines across Galway city is a policy being worked on by senior city council officials.