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The Israeli ambassador to Ireland, his excellency Ophir Kariv, made an almost 'secret' visit to Galway last weekend, with many councillors unaware he was due to be in the city.

Athlone Town Mayor, Cllr. Frankie Keena, has expressed immense dissatisfaction with the manner in which the Government and in particular, public representative, Minister Simon Harris, is proceeding with his health brief.

Traffic congestion, gridlock, and its effects on both the public and the environment, will be discussed at Let's Get Galway Moving, a public meeting hosted by the Green Party in the Galway Bay Hotel.

The Rohingya community in Ireland has welcomed the gesture of Galway City Council stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of Freedom of City bestowed in 2005, and the resolution calling to endorse the UN Fact-Finding Mission report to refer the Myanmar Military to the International Criminal Court for the genocide against Rohingya.

Galway-native but US-based senator Billy Lawless has this week urged graduate members of the Irish diaspora to avail of their rights to vote in any future Seanad elections.

With more than three months to go to the Local Elections, it may seem too early to make any definite predictions about the ultimate outcome of the 18 Galway City Council seats to be fought for across the city's three wards.

Local Sinn Féin aspirant, Padraig Hegarty and other local members joined INMO members on the picket line at Portiuncula hospital in Ballinasloe on their first day of industrial action. The pickets were underway from early morning at the hospital and over the course of the day garnered a large volume of support from people from all walks of life.

The special meeting at City Hall was suspended for five minutes on Monday night after a verbal altercation between Mayor Níall McNelis and Galway city central councillor Ollie Crowe.

A Sinn Féin councillor has expressed "disappointment" with two Galway West TDs who voted against a Bill in the Dáil that would seek to prevent sales of mortgages to vulture funds without the consent of the mortgage holder.

Back in May 2018, the London Times ran a revealing story from Brussels with the following headline: “Fear of Jeremy Corbyn-led government prompts tough EU-line on Brexit”.