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A forester employed to clearfell Merlin Park Woods has discovered fungal rot in standing evergreens, potentially slashing its commercial timber value.

A CONTRACTOR who swapped a broken part in his digger for a working one from another digger made a “monumental mistake” and was very remorseful, Judge James Faughnan heard at Tuam District Court this week.

There are few Irish construction stories that capture the changing face of the country’s built environment quite like that of JJ Rhatigan & Company. What began in Galway in 1952 as a local contracting business has, over more than seven decades, developed into a major Tier 1 construction company working across Ireland and the UK.

The Galway City Council’s biodiversity team is installing one hopper of nuts per hectare of forest its contractors began clear-felling this week, as part of a controversial plan to rejuvenate the city’s largest urban woodlands after sections were devastated by Storm Éowyn last winter.

Galway City Council officials told councillors on Tuesday that this swift funding will accelerate an €11.5 million first phase of the northern half of Kingston lands, sharpening ambition for completion in the third quarter of 2029.

The Galway City Council is committing to feed a population of squirrels in Merlin Woods for 10 years.

The Galway City Council is committing to feed a population of squirrels in Merlin Woods for 10 years.

The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Scheme for Scoil na bhForbacha has now reached the construction stage, with a contractor appointed and construction works scheduled to commence in mid-September.

Galway City West and Knocknacarra Councillor Donal Lyons has this week welcomed works now under way on a replacement bus shelter on Kingston Road.

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