Galway Bay FM News Archives
BOIL NOTICE LIFTED IN PARTS OF COUNTY BUT NOT CITY
Date Published: 09-Jul-2007
Some 20,000 people in county Galway have been given the green light to drink tap water without boiling it first.
The boil notice for Tuam, Athenry, Headford, Oranmore and Claregalway is now being lifted as water supplies are being provided from the County Council-owned water treatment plant in Luimnagh
However the 70,000 people who live in the city area, and those who live in the county area west of the city out to Moycullen, will have to continue to boil water for several more weeks
Connemara has always been Cryptosporidium free, and has had no water restrictions
The announcement the boil notice is being lifted in Eastern parts of the county has just been made at a meeting of the HSE, Galway City Council and Galway County Council Incident Response teams
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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