Galway council votes down plans for Salthill cycleway
Lengthy meeting hears of threats being made to councillors and city chief executive
Green light for new bridge across river Corrib in Galway city
Pedestrian and cycle span will run parallel to Salmon Weir Bridge and extend 85m in length
Galway shuts down popular tourist spots and beaches over Covid-19 concerns
Lack of social distancing causes local authority to act for June bank holiday weekend
Galway 2020 events may be ‘cancelled or scaled down’ as funding dries up
Tempers flare as councillors vote against allocating further funds to ‘car crash’ project
Travellers feel they have been 'left to die' on rat-infested site
‘We don’t want to live like this, but we have nowhere else to go.’
NUI Galway planning €200m city centre development
Dilapidated lands at Nuns’ Island will be redeveloped as part of the plan
Leading academics appointed to oversee major Galway language plan
Objective of seven-year plan is to increase the use of Irish as a community language in Galway City
Surf’s up: Irish lifesavers hoping to catch the medals
Ireland’s team at the World Surf Lifesaving Championships in Australia this month are determined to do us proud
Arts producers in ‘constructive’ talks over Galway 2020
‘We didn’t come out dancing, but we didn’t come out crying,’ says spokeswoman
Maire Geoghegan-Quinn resigns from Galway 2020 board
Organisation said former EU Commissioner left due to unavailablity for board meetings
Galway 2020 loses key board member with resignation of arts festival chief
Confirmation of resignation of John Crumlish follows Druid’s withdrawal of flagship production
Galway arts centre director calls for resignation of Galway 2020 chair
Arts groups seeking meeting with city and county managers over debacle
Galway Capital of Culture: first the euphoria, now the questions
First Galway 2020’s creative director quit; now funding questions are being asked
Galway 2020 to appoint replacement creative director
British theatre director Chris Baldwin left post last month by ‘mutual agreement’
Galway 2020 loses its creative director amid ‘confidence crisis’
Chris Baldwin leaves European Capital of Culture organising body ‘by mutual agreement’
‘Confidence crisis’ for Galway 2020 City of Culture, ex-mayor says
Questions raised about creative director position amid reports of resignation
Teacher ‘baled car out with coffee cup’ after Galway floods
Sinead Barrett says council could use sirens to warn public to get away from rising waters
Galway home and business owners count cost of flooding
Local council accused of failing to act on warnings by Office of Public Works
Call for grounds of former orphanage in Galway to be investigated
Claims of infant fatalities at Lenaboy Castle, which is to be converted into ‘children’s hub’
Ex-Sisters of Mercy orphanage to become ‘creative hub’
Mixed reaction from politicians as Galway City Council to take ownership of building
Council to evict 10 Traveller families from Galway halting site
Families given less than three weeks’ notice to leave severely overcrowded site
Waterford businesswoman to head Galway 2020 team
Hannah Kiely handling €45.75m budget for European Capital of Culture programme
Galway councillors criticised over approach to Traveller housing
Former mayor Pádraig Conneely says negative comments are ‘informed by reality’
Plan for Galway includes distinctive ‘city quarter’ on Eyre Square’s east side
Council and developers in talks ahead of year as European Capital of Culture in 2020
Work to resume shortly on Galway arthouse cinema
Project has been plagued by difficulties since it was first proposed in 2004
Chinese bidder wins race for Gaelectric wind farms
China General Nuclear Power is preferred bidder for majority stake in 230-megawatt portfolio
Barry Gavin to be next Gaelectric chief executive
Renewable energy company advances plans to sell control of wind farm assets
Heather Humphreys defends decision to further fund Galway arthouse cinema
Project founder Lelia Doolin says aim was to create “civic facility” for people of Galway
Galway celebrates European Capital of Culture success
Delight at announcement of 2020 title tempered with sympathy for victims of Nice attack
Galway council threatens to withdraw from cinema project
Local authority delivers ultimatum on the long-delayed €8m arthouse development
Future of unauthorised 1916 monument in Galway to be reviewed
City manager says some Mervue residents want memorial stone to be retained
Emergency teams at risk from ‘flood tourists’ taking photos
Emergency group asks people to avoid using boats near overhanging power lines
River levels fall but further flooding engulfs Wicklow
Drier spell expected to bring some relief across much of the country over coming days
Clonmel residents leave homes as river levels continue to rise
Increased risk of flooding along Liffey, more than 200 homes uninhabitable nationwide
Storm Frank: More rain expected as flood warning continues
December confirmed as wettest on record, while Shannon level still rising in Athlone
Taoiseach meets flood victims in Athlone after helicopter tour
Enda Kenny had been criticised for failing to engage with those affected by storms
Fresh status yellow rainfall warning for Cork and Kerry
Wettest December on record as hundreds of homes flooded across country
President warns against technology leaving behind human skills
President Higgins paid tribute to mathematician George Boole and was presented with Irish-designed Google doodle
Pricewatch reader queries: Check the small print when changing insurer
Plus: Energia customers billed on the double
Oriel Windfarm and Gaelectric to invest €80m in offshore wind farm
Wind energy hub expected to create 30 long term jobs for the North East Region
Tilting at windmills: the blowhard debate over new wind farms
A gale of opprobrium blew up over comments by economist Colm McCarthy deriding any further investment in wind energy
Galway commits to European capital of culture bid
Title will be awarded to Irish and Croatian cities in 2020
Culture Shock: Galway’s struggling arts groups face toughest cuts yet
A Labour Party councillor says he abstained from voting when the figures came before full council because he wasn’t happy with ‘the flippant way the arts grants were being treated’
Gaelectric secures €92m in new funds
Company to use finance to build planned windfarm at Dunbeg, Co Derry
How Irish names made it on to the offshore database
Change in tax law brought foreign-registered limited partnerships into tax net in 2005
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