Galway Bay FM News Archives
GALWAY AVIVA STAFF UNSURE OF FUTURE
Date Published: 19-Oct-2011
Staff at the Galway Aviva branch are still unsure as to how the 950 job cuts announced nationwide will affect them.
Around 200 staff were briefed by management at the centre in Knocknacarra this morning.
It was held to co-incide with staff meetings at the Dublin headquarters and Cork branch.
The insurance company gave a generic statement to its 2000 strong workforce that 950 jobs would be shed from its Irish operations over the next two years.
It means Aviva is to reduce its workforce in Ireland by almost 50 per cent – along with combining Aviva Ireland and Aviva UK to form one region.
The changes will take effect from next March, but the company has stopped short of telling staff where exactly the job cuts will be made, other than saying they hope to achieve as many as possible through voluntary redundancy.
AVIVA Galway workers told Galway Bay fm news the briefing has only left them in ‘limbo’.
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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