Galway Bay FM News Archives
RISE IN GALWAY CITY PROPERTY PRICES
Date Published: 08-Apr-2008
Asking prices for homes in Galway city rose by just over one percent in the first three months of this year.
That’s according to the latest research by Ireland’s largest property website daft-dot-ie, which also reveals a slight drop in prices for homes in the county.
The average asking price for a 3-bedroom house in Galway city since January was 319 thousand euro, up one percent on the previous three months.
A 3-bedroom house in the County would have cost you 262 thousand euro between January and the end of March, dropping a further 1 percent.
While asking prices for homes in Galway city have stabilised after last year’s drop, other parts of the country are not faring as well.
Prices in South County Dublin and Wicklow have been hardest hit with falls of 6 percent reported in some areas for the last quarter.
Chief Economist with daFt-dot-ie, Ronan Lyons, says Galway seems to buck the trend when it comes to the housing market.
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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