Galway Bay FM News Archives
LANDOWNERS VOICE OPPOSITION TO N17 WORKS
Date Published: 07-Feb-2012
Proposed road realignment works along a dangerous stretch of the N17 between Milltown and Ballindine will divide land and cause huge challenges for local farmers’ management and movement of stock.
That’s one of the concerns raised at an oral hearing this afternoon for landowners affected by a compulsory purchase acquisition as part of the N17 Carrownurlaur Bends Scheme.
Six landowners have formally objected to the required land acquisition by Galway County Council involving an area 6.3 hectares in size.
The scheme commences in the townland of Gortnagunned south of Hernon’s bend and is located west of the N17 north of Coynes bend in the town of Carrownurlaur.
The route is 1.4 kilometres in length and would involve a carriageway of 7.3 metres, two hard shoulders and 2 verges.
Galway County Council argues that the safety upgrade works are vital as six road collisions have been reported on the stretch of road from 1990 to 2008 – four of these serious with five fatalities recorded in 2009.
Senior Planning Inspector Derek Daly appointed by An Bord Pleanala brought the hearing to a close in the last few minutes for preparation of a report on the proposed scheme.
At the afternoon’s hearing, concerns were also raised regarding drainage, possible flooding issues and access to water supply.
Local landowner Paddy Moran told Galway Bay fm news that dividing his land will make farming extremely difficult.
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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