Galway Bay FM News Archives
AHASCRAGH’S RONAN MULLEN WINS SENATE SEAT
Date Published: 26-Jul-2007
Ahascragh native Ronan Mullen has been elected a senator.
The political novice has pulled off a great coup in winning one of three seats on the NUI panel
The 36 year old columnist, lecturer and barrister took the second seat after Senator Joe O’Toole within the past hour.
Brendan Ryan won the third seat, with Fergal Quinn narrowly losing his senate seat.
Ronan Mullen is the son of Tom Mullen of Woodlawn and Maura Mullen nee Hobbs of Killimor and is a cousin of well known Fine Gael County councillor Michael Mullins.
Meanwhile, Ballinasloe’s Joe Callinan has been eliminated from the count for a seat on the Seanad’s administrative panel.
The Fianna Fail former TD and farmer polled just under 70,000 votes, some 63,000 short of the quota needed to win a seat.
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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