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Shell to Sea has called for two days of action this weekend starting today, Friday April 1, and tomorrow Saturday April 2, at Aughoose where members claim that Shell E&P Ireland has started construction work on a 5km tunnel which will go under Sruwaddacon Estuary. However Shell E&P Ireland in response to the accusations from Shell to Sea, issued a statement denying it had started tunnelling works and said it was only carrying out site investigation works in preparation for construction and they had not actually started construction works. The statement from Shell E&P Ireland stated: “Shell E&P Ireland Limited is currently carrying out site investigation work on its own land in Aughoose. This is in preparation for the start of construction work on the onshore pipeline.”

In the different Ireland in which we all grew up, several pillars of the community were held in the greatest of esteem. We scampered when the garda approached, doffed our caps when we dared to address the parish priest, and adopted the grateful approach when meeting the local bank manager or insurance salesman.

An investigation by the Garda Siochana Ombudsman Commission into a road crash which claimed the life of a young Galway man earlier this month is still continuing.

A lecture series entitled Integrity in Society will be run by Croi Nua over the coming weeks, and will feature voices such as Nuala O’Loan, Fr Peter McVerry, and Abbot Patrick Mark Hederman.

Following the successful visit to Callan from Dragon's Den celebrity Sarah Newman recently, The St Brigid’s College talk series continues with an exciting new guest this month.

Labour Party President and Dáil deputy for Galway West, Michael D Higgins, has written to the Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly asking for her intervention in a matter affecting a growing number of persons seeking to enter into third level education having previously been in the workforce.

Mayo General Hospital has agreed to implement the recommendations of Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly following her investigation into the death of a 53-year-old woman. The woman’s family brought their complaint to the Ombudsman after they were unsatisfied with the way the hospital had carried out an investigation into a complaint they made following her death.

The Ombudsman and Information Commissioner has ordered the Health Services Executive (HSE) to pay €5,000 in compensation to the family of a woman who died while her test results were left lying unopened in a hospital’s typing pool.

A Galway builder is the first person to be convicted by the Pension Ombudsman.

A local senator is referring what she terms a “heartless and stupid decision” involving an unwell 83-year-old city woman and made by the Galway City Council and the Department of the Environment to the ombudsman.