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Children across Galway city and county will celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg - a national day of creativity for children and young people – with a host of free online events and workshops on Saturday June 12.

Four Galway city beaches water quality deemed safe for swimming

The past two weeks have given me a chance to meet with the Gardaí a number of times, assess my home and personal security and just make sure my family were okay. I needed the time and break away to find the head space to do this as it has been a very stressful period for our family.

Galway City Council chief executive Brendan McGrath has condemned the threats made to Mayor Mike Cubbard.

The Galway City Council made two housekeeping decisions of note at its November meeting earlier this week. One was to permit the participation of members meeting in a socially distant manner; members can now Zoom into the proceedings. The second was to defer the annual budget meeting; originally intended to take place next week but now put back to November 30.

The "insane explosion of drinking in public places" in Galway will persist unless without the adoption of a strategy to tackle the issue by the Galway City Council, the gardaí, the HSE, and third-level institutions.

Funding totalling €1.6 million has been announced this week for a number of active travel projects in Longford Westmeath. The grants, part of a €33 million tranche of funding nationwide, will go towards improving footpaths, cycleways, and accessibility to transport facilities.

The mayor of Galway, Cllr Mike Cubbard is to serve a second successve term as the city’s mayor for 2020/21 after he was selected at the council’s annual meeting on Friday evening at Leisureland.

A case of political pastures familiar was most evident within the surrounds of the Athlone-Moate Municipal District Chamber on Monday afternoon as Cllr. Aengus O’Rourke was elected Mayor.

According to the 2016 Census, there were over 643,000 people living in Ireland with a disability. That means 13.5 per cent, or one in seven people in Ireland with a disability. Data from 2015 told us that 132,000 people with disabilities were living in consistent poverty.