Galway Bay FM News Archives
Parts of city may face weekend water cuts
Date Published: 28-Apr-2011
By Bernie Ní Fhlatharta
Water restrictions may be introduced over the Bank Holiday weekend which could affect householders in the western part of the city.
Galway County Council will decide today whether they need to introduce the same water restrictions they had in place after Christmas – which affected houses between the Western Distributor Road and Moycullen.
The restrictions were in place last night so that engineers could get a proper reading this morning of water levels at the Tonabrocky reservoir. The result will decide whether water restrictions will continue over the weekend.
A spokesman for the County Council’s water services said that a “fairly significant increase in the demand for water has been noticed at Tonabrocky” and that they had to address this immediately.
He said that the demand in the area had increased recently by up to 600 cubic metres a day – enough to supply 1,000 houses using about 140 gallons of water a day.
Restrictions mean that water from the Tonabrocky reservoir will be turned off at 10pm and not switched on again until 6am.
And though this is not news that will be welcomed by local householders who have experienced regular water shortages in recent years, €2 million has been approved to build a new reservoir at Tonabrocky which will put an end to local water restrictions.
The new reservoir will service some of the western suburbs which have been most affected by cuts in recent months as demand on the existing facility has been stretched to bursting point.
For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.
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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