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Tuam-based Councillor Seán Canney has asked Galway County Council to review all of the water meters installed by them to determine if they are installed correctly.

Improvements are due to be made to the Tuam waste treatment services under the Sludge Management Plan, according to county councillor Seán Canney.

At a special ceremony at NUI Galway on Tuesday, 24 new recipients of NUI Galway student sports scholarships, three of whom are Mayo natives, were presented by chairman of the NUI Galway Sport and Recreation Union Committee, Ruadhán Cooke. The recipients joined the 30 existing holders of NUI Galway sports scholarships. NUI Galway supports high performing athletes in a wide range of sports through its sports scholarship programme.

In the early years of the 20th century the Irish language increasingly was associated with poverty and backwardness. In the national school system, which was established in 1831, children had been beaten with what became known as a ‘tally stick’ if they were caught speaking Irish. Apparently every time a child was heard speaking Irish, a notch was cut on the stick, and the poor child received the same number of blows.

More resources and additional housing liason officers are needed to properly deal with the scourge of the anti-social behaviour problem throughout the county which is costing thousands of euro, that is according to Galway County Councillor Seán Canney.

The new Garda mobile safety cameras have been given a cautious welcome with local representatives urging the Government to ensure that it will not turn into a money-making exercise and to invest in the re-alignment of dangerous country roads.

Ireland rolled out a key element of its new road safety campaign this week, and, as expected, there was huge interest where the Gardai's new mobile traffic cameras (think emissions), operated by private contractors, were to be posted - so much so the Garda website crashed several times.

The great, the good and the ordinary people of Galway packed into GMIT’s largest lecture theatre last Friday to take the first steps in collective planning for the future of Galway.

Retailers have welcomed a decision to return two-way traffic to Kilkenny’s High Street following a campaign highlighting the one-way system’s adverse effects on city centre businesses.

SuperKidd Promotions returns to The Stables, Mullingar tonight, Friday November 5, with ther highly succesful open mic night.