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As we approach the end of another year, it is always interesting to review the local political goings-on in the Galway City Council. Let us examine each grouping in the chamber.

More than 200 metres of cast iron piping in Lenaboy Gardens, Salthill, is due to be replaced in the coming weeks, as are more than 772 meters of piping in Dalysfort Road in January.

The Salthill Cycleway pilot scheme is “a victory for everyone in the city”, but it has to be made work, and become the start of a new approach to transport in the city, one that will reduce, not increase, the city’s already chronic traffic congestion.

Galway could become the first city in Ireland to embed Sustainable Development Goals in city planning, if new proposals from the Galway Community Network are followed.

‘Salthill Sundays’ gathering of car enthusiasts involved “contemptible scenes” of tailbacks, littering, and the public feeling intimidated, and must be prevented from happening again.

Certain public areas of Galway city are under consideration as places where the consumption of alcohol will be permitted for the forthcoming ‘outdoor summer’.

One of the basic lessons from the pandemic is how interconnected we are - your mask protects me, mine protects you. Early outbreaks of Covid in meat-processing factories - where workers cannot practice social distancing - were exacerbated by the fact these low-income workers lack sick pay. Unable to afford to (willingly) forego wages, workers masked symptoms, hoped for the best, and clocked in, with disastrous results.

Burglaries in Loughrea

Fears have arisen that the Galway-Barna Greenway will receive the least attention and priority among the various Greenway routes and cycle lanes planned for the Galway region.

The location of the new 140 person direct provision independent living complex has been criticised by city councillors.