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Independent Councillor Terry O’Flaherty can confirm Galway City Council will be installing shelters at Ballyloughane Beach shortly — for which she secured funding more than three years ago.

The Galway City Council’s first meeting of 2024 began with icy stares rather than heated debate this week.

The issues dominating Galway City Council’s penultimate meeting of 2023 almost all involved friction with Galway County Council.

Galway City Council has again achieved three prestigious Green Flag Awards, at the announcement this week by An Taisce Environmental Education Unit. The Green Flag Awards acknowledge Ireland’s best public parks and gardens, with Quincentennial Park in Salthill achieving the award for the fourth time, Children’s Millennium Park retaining the honour for a fifth year in a row and O’Sullivan Park in Mervue achieving the award for the second time.

City sporting clubs and councillors are up in arms this week over a planned transition from the current club licensing agreement to an online reservation system this July, with fears that planned high profile matches could be thrown into disarray by public bookings for stag and birthday parties.

Fine Gael Councillor Eddie Hoare has this week received confirmation that the National Transport Authority will be completing a review of the Galway city bus routes in April. As part of the review there will be public consultation.

Cllr Terry O’Flaherty has welcomed the unanimous support of her fellow members of Galway City Council for her motion at this week’s City Council meeting demanding that the toilets at Ballyloughane Beach be kept open at weekends.

Minister Darragh O’Brien was impressed by the progress he witnessed on the village’s new wastewater treatment plant, when he visited last weekend.

The annual Park & Ride Christmas Service makes a welcome return to the city this year.

A 14 per cent drop in daily car use, and an 11 per cent rise in the number of children walking to school, has been achieved following one year of the Galway City Council’s School Streets pilot scheme at Scoil Iognáid.