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Public consultations on Outer City Bypass
Two public consultations on the City Outer Bypass will take place next week. (14-15/7)
Galway County Council is co-ordinating the development of a transport solution for Galway after planning permission for the original project was overturned by the Supreme Court last year.
The N6 Outer City Bypass project is being managed by the Galway National Roads Project Office on behalf of the city and county councils.
A dedicated project office staffed by newly appointed consultant, Arup, has been established beside the NRPO in Ballybrit.
The first public consultation will take place on Monday next from 10am to 9pm in the Westwood Hotel in Dangan.
A second session will take place on Tuesday next from 10am to 9pm at the Pillo Hotel on the Headford Road.
The aim of the sessions is to inform the public of the study area for the scheme and the constraints that have been identified to date.
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Four wards have been closed at UHG due to outbreaks of COVID-19.
The city’s acute hospital has six COVID-19 designated wards in operation.
There are 15 patients in the ICU at UHG, an increase of five in the last week as the acute hospital had transfers from Letterkenny and Mayo hospitals due to capacity issues.
Private hospitals are assisting with the effort with 15 elderly or frailty patients at the Bons Secours and 25 acute medicine and oncology patients at The Galway Clinic.
Chris Kane, General Manager at Galway University Hospitals told Keith Finnegan on Galway Talks that green ward or non-COVID ward availability is quite low at approximately four wards with efforts ongoing to try to get beds back into the system….
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board has been allocated over €2 million in funding to support the provision of youth services .
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman has confirmed that €66.8 million in funding has been made available nationwide to support the provision of such services in 2021.
UBU Your Place Your Space provides out-of-school supports to young people in their local communities to enable them to overcome adverse circumstances and achieve their full potential by improving their personal and social development outcomes.
National Youth Organisations are also to benefit from some €12m in universal funding.
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway based sports tech company Orreco is to create 30 jobs across its Irish and US operations.
It comes as the firm, which is based at the NUIG Innovation Centre, has raised €3 million in investor funding.
The funding drive was led by True Ventures – which was also an early investor in Fitbit and Peleton.
Through the latest round of funding, Orreco says up to 30 new hires will be made across the company’s offices in Ireland, the UK, and the U.S – specifically Galway and Los Angeles where Orreco operates a performance centre.
The Galway-based company aims to expand its product, engineering, data science and commercial teams, in addition to accelerating the development of its elite performance solutions, @thlete and FitrWoman.
Orreco was founded by sports scientist Brian Moore and consultant haematologist Andy Hodgson in 2010.
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