Galway Bay FM News Archives
POWER AND WATER RESTORED TO COUNTY AREAS
Date Published: 04-Jan-2012
Power and water has been restored to most areas of Galway following yesterday’s hurricane weather.
Storm force winds and lashing rain hit the West coast on Monday night resulting in debris across the county’s roads.
Meanwhile, Eircom is continuing to fix several thousand faults reported on its phone network across the country.
A large tree hit a water main at Creagh junction in Ballinasloe causing water disruption for most of the day yesterday.
500 ESB customers in Ballinasloe and Derrybrien were left without power yesterday as a result of the faults because of the storm.
The storm also claimed a rare tree, which was planted by the man who created Kylemore Abbey in Connemara more than a century ago.
According to the Irish Times, the weather felled an exotic pine, which was almost 20 metres in height.
The tree was planted by Mitchell Henry around 1870 and built Kylemore Abbey as a fairytale home for his wife between 1867 and 1871.
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.
Recent published book again draws attention to an old debate about the precise boundaries of Connemara
Roscommon/Galway TD Denis Naughten calls for action to improve treatment for rare diseases
Calls for public consultation on the installation of traffic lights at Oughterard Bridge
Penn Engineering lodges plans for expansion of Mervue plant
One of Galway oldest residents celebrates 104th birthday
East Galway farm sells for €1.3 million
Burkes return home to revel in their local roots
Man prosecuted for building house instead of agricultural storage unit
Official opening of Galway’s new pedestrian and cycle bridge
OPW Minister to meet Council engineers on ‘flawed’ motorway design
