From this week’s Galway City Tribune – The Planning Appeals Board has overruled its own Senior Inspector and permitted a change of use of 17 apartments in the city centre for use as an apart-hotel. Jane Dennehy said that the short-term letting of the Citypoint Apartments (over TK Maxx) would “exacerbate the shortage in supply […]
From this week’s Galway City Tribune – An independent investigation is underway into controversial comments made by a former city mayor about Travellers, the Galway City Tribune has learned. The probe, led by barrister Ruth Mylotte, was commissioned by Galway City Council to examine derogatory remarks by Councillor Michael Crowe (FF) about housing Travellers last […]
From the Galway City Tribune – A competitive process will be used to employ building contractors to carry out an €11m fit-out of the new City Hall at Crown Square, it has been confirmed. The purchase of the offices in Mervue by Galway City Council last year did not go through a public procurement process. […]
Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column with Dara Bradley Brendan McGrath’s greatest achievement in Galway was also his biggest failure. When assessing the legacy of the Chief Executive of Galway City Council’s 10-year tenure, it is impossible to ignore Galway 2020. Without McGrath, Galway would not have been European Capital of Culture. Of […]