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Public talk on Palestine to be held in city
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Independent Senator Frances Black will visit Galway tomorrow to speak about Palestine and her Occupied Territories Bill 2018.
The bill seeks to ban trade in good produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
Senator Black will outline why she has tabled the bill, the next steps and the reaction in Palestine.
The event will also feature personal accounts from local members of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and political representatives.
The free public talk will take place at the Harbour Hotel in the city tomorrow evening at 7.30.
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Farrell says eviction ban lift will be “judged harshest” of Government’s bad housing policies
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway West TD Mairead Farrell claims the lifting of the eviction ban will be judged the harshest of all the Government’s bad housing policies.
She told the Dáil it stands head and shoulders above all the terrible housing decisions this and the previous Government have made over the past decade.
She told Housing Minister Daragh O’ Brien that the real sticking point is that this decision was made in the full knowledge of the chaos it will cause.
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The number of homeless people in emergency accommodation has increased by almost 24 per cent in a year.
There are now almost 11,800 people homeless, including 258 people in County Galway.
According to the latest figures from the Department of Housing 11,742 people, including 3,373 children, now find themselves homeless.
It’s an increase of almost 24 per cent on the same month for last year.
The data, for the week of February 20th-26th, show there were 8,369 adults in emergency accommodation, an increase of 23 per cent on the figure for February last year.
In Dublin, there are 8,588 people, including 2,576 children, living in homelessness.
Meanwhile this month’s figures, when compared to January, remain relatively unchanged.
Farrell says eviction ban lift will be “judged harshest” of Government’s bad housing policies
258 people now listed as homeless across Galway
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UHG third most overcrowded hospital nationwide during March
Green light for Galway’s first Wetherspoons at Eglinton Street
City seeks to annex Oranmore, Claregalway, Moycullen and Barna in boundary extension
Man awarded €142,000 over unprovoked attack in toilet of County Galway pub
Woman convicted of harassing social media guru
Galway family’s plea – help us save our home
Bono has finally found what’s he’s looking for!
