Galway Bay FM News Archives
CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO REMOVE KIRWAN ROUNDABOUT
Date Published: 15-May-2012
Galway city council has voted to remove the Kirwan roundabout at the Menlo Park Hotel.
At last evening’s city council meeting, councillors voted 9 – 6 in favour of replacing the roundabout with a signalised junction as part of the n6 Bothar na dTreabh scheme.
Councillors were asked to vote on one of three options- the first was diverting a road from the Menlo Park Hotel grounds through to the Headford road, the second involved the closure of the Liosban leg of the junction and creating a new access road, and the third was to do nothing and leave the roundabout intact.
After debating the issue for over two hours, the majority of councillors voted in favour of option one, also the preferred option of the city transportation unit.
The four leg signalised junction with the re-alignment of the road from the Menlo Park Hotel to a new T.junction can now proceed to the planning process.
There may be some issues with this however, as City Councillor Frank Fahy, who opposed the plans, claims the Menlo Park Hotel has planning for a leisure facility near the proposed new route.
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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