Galway Bay FM News Archives
11 THOUSAND GALWAY RESIDENTS SEEK HELP FROM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRES
Date Published: 11-Jul-2012
Over 11 thousand Galway residents have sought help from Family Resource Centres across the city and county.
The figures compiled for 2011 are broken into constituency and show that 9 thousand 200 people sought help in Galway East while 2 thousand 500 looked for assistance in Galway West.
The study also shows that a further 2 thousand 800 were referred on to other service providers.
A trend has been noted of an increased demand for access to information on upskilling with 416 Galway residents going on to take up education courses and a further 226 availing of work training placements.
The group also operates and in-house counselling service which has seen an uptake of 124 people in Galway centres last year.
The Galway Family Resource Centres are assisted with a team of 28 volunteers, as well as core staff.
Annie Rosario is the Co-Ordinator of Gort Family and Community Resource Centre.
She says future cutbacks could severely impact on the centre’s ability to deliver key services such as counselling.
Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald launched the report findings today [Jul 11] and says inter-agency co-operation will assist in the delivery of key services.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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