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Local councillor, Frankie Keena, has this reflected upon the second anniversary of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, as marches in support of Ukraine took place in Athlone and throughout the country this past weekend.

In a hundred days from now, most of us will go to the polls to elect new city and county councillors and new MEPs. The race for the European seat used to be a lot more interesting when the constituency was merely the West...now it goes from Rossaveal to somewhere near the Mull of Kintyre. There is never any shortage of candidates for the European gig...as political posts go, they are the most desired. If I ever come back in the next life as a politician, you’ll find me in Brussels or Strasbourg, eating starters instead of main courses to keep the pounds down.

City councillor Terry O’Flaherty has welcomed the start of work to tackle what she had labled the ‘shabby’ exterior of the Walter Macken flats complex in Mervue.

The Labour Party has selected John McDonagh as its Galway City Central candidate for this June’s local elections.

The Galway City Council met this week to discuss the local authority’s inaugural Climate Action Plan (CAP), which was unanimously approved by councillors.

City Councillor Declan McDonnell has welcomed the news that tenders are being invited for designing a major upgrade of facilities for St James’ GAA Club.

Local sports advocate and Fine Gael candidate for Galway City East local elections, Aisling Keogh, has called for a more collaborative effort among sporting bodies to create community shared sports facilities in Galway city and county.

Local councillor, Aengus O’Rourke, has called upon the ESB to listen to the residents of Coosan as they continuously strive to cope with problematic power outages within their neighbourhood.

Galway Greens are to hold a fun and eco-friendly event – the Galway Greens Clothes Swap, taking place this Saturday, February 17, at their Woodquay offices, with doors opening at 3pm.

City councillor Declan McDonnell has called for a change in the process of funding sports clubs’ grounds developments in Galway, in order to speed up their delivery.