Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway West TD Catherine Connolly has hit out at the Government’s alleged “cherry picking” of facts over the housing crisis.

Speaking in the Dáil, she chastised Housing Minister Darragh O’ Brien for “boasting” about a range of schemes introduced in recent years.

She said most of them have proved ineffective, while others have made the problem even worse.

Deputy Connolly said at the end of the day Government policy has led to the current situation and it must be acknowledged.

Galway Bay fm newsroom – The University of Galway is launching an online service aimed at battling misinformation about cancer.

The free service will provide tools to cancer patients to examine whether information is real or not.

The online platform, funded by the Irish Cancer Society, is to be launched later this year.

Professor Declan Devane is behind the new service and he says there are concerns misinformation online will mislead patients:

Galway Bay fm newsroom – It’s been revealed that a major leak on the water network in the Salthill area was losing 850 thousand litres of clean drinking water every day.

The leak – described by Irish Water as “colossal” – was discovered at Taylors Hill and has now been repaired.

Enough water to supply the population of Ballinasloe for an entire day.

That’s what was being lost on a daily basis through the leak discovered on the network at Taylors Hill.

Every 24 hours, 850 thousand litres of clean drinking water was seeping into the ground.

Crews were aware of a likely leak due to a spike in usage, but found it challenging to identify the location, as no water came to the surface.

Following an extensive effort using specialised equipment, the leak has now been pinpointed and repaired.

Irish Water has described the fix as one of the largest savings of water this year in the entire North-West region