Galway Bay FM News Archives
ORANMORE WOMAN WINS VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR IN MAYORAL AWARDS
Date Published: 11-Nov-2011
Margaret McNulty from Oranmore has been named Volunteer of the Year in the County Mayor’s awards.
The awards ceremony which was held last night [Nov 10] in the Connemara Coast Hotel was attended by 300 people from coummunity and voluntary groups.
35 community and voluntary groups were short listed in 7 other categories.
Tuam Headford Special Olympics took the Sports Award while Abbey Community Development won the Green Award.
The Arts award was won by Clifden Community Arts Week while Ballinasloe Area Community Development Ltd won the Community Enterprise Award.
The Youth Award was won by Sign out Youth Café in Portumna while The Age Friendly Award was won by Portumna & District Active Retirement Association.
Clann Family Resource Centre in Oughterard won the Community Group Award.
All the winners were presented with a beautiful slate sculpture of the Galway Hooker
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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