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A demand for the Galway City Council to appoint a Full-Time Access Officer, and for the full implementation of The Equal Status Act, Public Sector Duty, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, will be made today.

Irish singer Mary Coughlan will highlight the supports available to victims of domestic abuse in Mayo in a new video set to be released on November 25.

Professor Louise Allcock, Head of Zoology and Director of the Ryan Institute’s Centre for Ocean Research and Exploration at NUI Galway, is part of an international team of scientists who have called for a dedicated decade-long programme of research to greatly advance discovery in the remote regions of the deep seas and learn how they impact the wider ocean and life on the planet.

At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Disabilities Matters, Deputy Sean Canney raised some of the issues facing people with disabilities.

Measures taken by Shannon Group to protect the safety of its passengers and employees at Shannon Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic have been recognised internationally, with the airport receiving a global endorsement from the Airports Council International (ACI) World and ACI EUROPE.

Last Thursday, President Michael D. Higgins gave a powerful thought-provoking speech to an online (via Webex) meeting of people of all ages drawn from a wide strata of local society on why the movement towards transforming Galway into a National Park City is so crucial at this particular time in human history due to unprecedented climate change, biodiversity loss and pandemics, and why it can be a template for other cities in Ireland to follow.

Galway artist Pádraic Reaney has been selected to represent Ireland in a major international exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations.

Government aspirations to make contraception universally available, without charge, for all women, must be made a reality in Budget 2021.

Is Galway’s Extinction Rebellion extinct? Has it fallen victim to Covid-19 or is its silence political due to the Greens going into Government?

Irish start-up, CUSP (Cease Using Single-Use Plastic), founded by Athlone native, Simon Ruddy, has developed a novel approach to tackling household single-use plastic packaging waste.