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DEADLINE LOOMS FOR SUBMISSIONS ON NEW TUAM MOTORWAY
Date Published: 07-Feb-2008
Residents and landowners between Tuam and Galway have until Friday week [feb 15] to make submissions on the proposed M17 motorway to An Bord Pleanala.
The 25 kilometre long motorway isn’t expected to become a reality before 2012, but it’s already at an advanced design stage with Galway county council.
The proposed motorway is 25.5 kilometres long and will stretch from Rathmorrissy outside Galway city to the existing N17 where it will join the proposed Tuam Bypass.
Compulsory Purchase Orders were issued before Christmas to 180 landowners along the length of the route according to project engineer Fintan O’Meara.
The closing date for submissions to An Bord Pleanala is Friday 15 Feb
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Tuam receives second UK hay import as fodder crisis continues
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.
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46 social housing offers refused across city and county
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.
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Galway Senator calls for more action on combatting domestic violence
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.