Galway Bay FM News Archives
MICHAEL FAHY CALLS FOR RELIEF ROAD TO BE OPENED NEAR GORT
Date Published: 30-Jan-2008
Galway County Council is being called on to open a relief road to facilitate local people in the townland of Tierneevan near Gort, who are marooned as a result of flooding.
County Councillor Michael Fahy says the flooding around Tierneevan has been so bad in recent weeks the road to Gort has been closed.
Locals and school-children have had to detour miles to travel to the local town.
There’s a relief road available but the landowner cannot open it until insurance issues are sorted with the county council.
Councillor Fahy says the flooding has got worse with this week’s heavy rain and he’s appealing to the council to open the relief road
Meanwhile Councillor Fahy is not happy with the Office of Public Works allocation of just 7,000 euro for maintenance works on the Dunkellin River.
Councillor Fahy says a solution must be found to allow the water to be able to reach the sea.
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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