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Markets and fairs were where town met country years ago, when rural people from the hinterland came into town with their produce and sold it on the streets to the townspeople who needed it. So the city hosted cattle fairs, sheep fairs, horse fairs, hiring fairs, vegetable markets, hay markets, fish markets, sock markets, fowl markets, egg and butter markets. When the country people sold their produce, they would often spend money on necessities they could not produce at home such as flour, tea or sugar. If they did not sell, they had to return home, usually by shank’s mare, with whatever they had to sell, whatever the weather.

Representatives from Galway City Council will present the award-winning age-friendly housing scheme, ‘An Cliathán’, at the International Social Housing Festival, taking place from 4-6 June at the National Convention Centre, Dublin.

Galway Simon Community has this week launched a development of 10 new homes in Galway City with full accessibility for older people and for people who have compromised mobility or who are wheelchair users.

A landmark building in Ballinasloe is set to be transformed to include a new community facility as part of a 16-unit residential housing development in the centre of the East Galway town.

In a significant step towards transforming a fire-damaged and long-derelict building in Ballygar, Cllr Evelyn Parsons has made formal requests for the acquisition and redevelopment of the former HSE building beside Ballygar Garda Station. The building, which was extensively damaged by fire in February 2021, has since become an eyesore and a source of frustration for the community.

There were a number of aspects to the market in Woodquay in the 19th and early 20th centuries – there was a crane for weighing potatoes at the end of the park (near the toll booth) and it was there many of the farmers who carried their wares downriver used to gather to sell. Other groups would congregate here to sell scollops for thatching houses, ‘flexible sticks’ cut from hazel trees. These were very much in demand in the city area as so many houses were thatched in those days including in Woodquay. Also in that area you would find basket makers who would weave creels, ciseáins, skibs and baskets of many shapes and sizes for sale to the public.

Galway Simon Community is commencing development of 10 homes in Galway City with full accessibility for older people and for people who have compromised mobility or who are wheelchair users.

Independent Ballina councillor Mark Duffy has put forward the idea of retrofitting a school in the town that will no longer be used for that purpose come the end of the current academic year - for use as a temporary fix to house Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war in their country.

A motion to assess the old Snowcream site on the Dublin Road in Moate for inclusion on the derelict properties register was raised by Fine Gael Councillor, Tom Farrell, at the most recent sitting of the Athlone-Moate Municipal District.

A Green councillor has queried whether consultants working on investigating derelict sites have added any sites to the Derelict Sites Register.