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Galway City in the last few years has been blessed with a People’s Park starting near Woodquay and extending (in theory) as far as Merlin Park. Hundreds of Galwegians came out in its inception and planted thousands of trees along the Corrib.

Galway City Council now want to plough a road through the Terryland People’s Forest Park to join onto the heavily-congested Quincentennial Bridge to accommodate traffic going to the new shopping centre proposed for the site of the current Galway Shopping Centre.

It would be called madness if it wasn’t such wanton, preplanned destruction. It will destroy habitat, carve the already neglected Park into pieces and multiply the already chaotic bridge traffic.

There is a campaign running to oppose this idiocy. Please visit Friends of the Terryland Forest to find out more.

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Here we go again. E-coli in Knocknacarra. Back to third world water supplies for the next, oh, two months?

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Woohoo! It’s over! No more brushing my teeth with beer!

Or is it?

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Former Mayor of Galway Cllr. Niall O’Brolchain has put the mayoral Prius on eBay to raise money for the 15 charities that were beneficiaries of that scary veggie hippy/interesting delicious alternative (delete as appropriate) Mayor’s Ball in May.

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a huge fan of cars in the Jeremy Clarkson sense, but by golly I’d love a Prius. They are so quiet they could nearly pick your pockets without you noticing.

Mind you it’ll take a good few more caricatures before I can afford one!

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…it isn’t. Surprise surprise, Galway City Council have announced that they won’t have a safe supply by next Friday after all. Not content with deliberately neglecting Galway’s water supply for ten years (to be fair the County Council are equally complicit in that one) we now are guaranteed a third world water supply at the peak of the tourist season.
Prospective tourists should be assured that most hotels and restaurants have their own filtration systems in place and provide safe clean water. The people of Galway, however, will have to make do with continuing to buy water.

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