Galway Bay FM News Archives
EMERGENCY CITY TRAFFIC MEETING DESCENDS INTO FARCE
Date Published: 06-Sep-2011
No concrete solutions have been found to the city’s continuing traffic crisis.
Last night’s special meeting was a blame game which descended into farce at times.
The writing was on the wall from the outset when Mayor Hildegarde Naughton announced that the Gardai had pulled out of attending
Among themselves councillors spent large portions of the night engaged in petty bickering and loud attempts at political point scoring.
Director of Services Ciaran Hayes accused several councillors of proposing motions that lacked reality or research or funding
The motions centred on matters such as park n ride, three lane contra traffic flow on dual carriageways, night-time road works and implementing the smarter travel initiative
However Mr Hayes continues to state that the city’s traffic problems are due to the fact that it is not by-passed and that it needs an urban traffic management control centre.
For now, there are real fears of an escalation of the traffic crisis when work begins on removing the Lynch roundabout at Briarhill next week.
Cllr Padraig Conneely was told by the manager that his motion to defer the 8 week project was illegal because the contract has been awarded.
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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