Galway Bay FM News Archives
COUNCIL SAYS STAFF ARE NOT BEING ROBBED OF RACE DAYS
Date Published: 24-Jul-2007
Officials at Galway city council have dismissed out of hand Cllr Michael Crowe’s claims that council staff are being robbed of their 2 half days for Race week
Up to now the city council closed fully from 11am on the two main days of Race Week, Wednesday and Thursday, but this year officials want the offices to stay open
As a result they are arranging for staff to stagger their races concession days which means all staff won’t be able to take Wednesday and Thursday, as was the tradition, but can take other race days
However they say that the unions were consulted about this proposal, and it was agreed with the Workplace Partnership and IMPACT trade union some months ago
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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