Galway Bay FM News Archives
TWO GALWAY NAMES ON LATEST TAX DEFAULTERS LIST
Date Published: 13-Mar-2012
Two Galway names are included on the latest tax defaulters list
Nationally, almost 15 million euro was recovered from tax defaulters in the final three months of last year
According to the latest defaulters list from the Revenue Commissioners settlements were made by Moylough’s Michael Dolan and Dunmore’s Martin Smyth
Furniture retailer Michael Dolan from Moylough made a settlement of just under 221 thousand euro for underdeclaration of income tax in a revenue audit case
Company director Martin Smith of Flaskaghmore Dunmore made a settlement of just under 179 thousand euro for underdeclaration of income tax and VAT in a revenue single premium insurance product investigation case
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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