Galway Bay FM News Archives
GALWAY BUCKS DOWNWARD TREND IN NEW BUILDINGS
Date Published: 09-Jul-2012
There’s been a 44 percent increase in the number of new residential and commercial buildings in Galway for the first six months of the year, bucking the national trend.
Figures compiled by GeoDirectory show that 661 new builds were recorded in the six month period, up from 459 on the same period last year.
Vacancy rates for Galway’s new builds now stand at 11 percent, just under the national average which is trending at 12 percent.
Leitrim has the largest vacancy rates for new buildings at 20 percent, while more new buildings were recorded in Cork City and County than anywhere else, with 825 additions in the 6 months to the end of June.
Today’s figures show a continuing year on year national decrease of 23 percent compared to the same time in 2011, when 7,330 new buildings were added to the GeoDirectory database.
Dara Keogh, CEO of Geo-Directory, says Galway is one of seven counties to buck the national downward trend.
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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