By JACQUELINE HOGGE PLANS to connect the West of Ireland’s renewable energy resources to the national electricity grid have been welcomed by an Athenry-based firm that has invested heavily in green energy in recent years. Eirgrid is proposing to build new transmission lines linking Mayo to both Galway and Roscommon.*****You need to be logged in [...]
A LEADING Tuam businessman is to remove a trailer advertising his electrical business from his own property on the Milltown Road following an action taken by Galway Co Council. Judge Geoffrey Browne asked “when is he going to move it?” after hearing a detailed and protracted defence centred on the enforcement process engaged in by [...]
By SIOBHÁN HOLLIMAN AN announcement on which private operator will run Tuam’s civic amenity site and the other public recycling centres in the county will be made before the end of the month. Galway Co Council has confirmed that it has received the tenders from companies that are interested in leasing the facilities and will [...]
By TONY GALVIN SOME bogs in the North Galway area are now no-go areas for Wildlife Rangers and Gardai as groups organise themselves to protect contractors illegally cutting turf on protected bogs, it has been claimed. There are also growing concerns that any attempts to penalises turf cutters involved in such activity by taking away [...]
By JACQUELINE HOGGE THE discovery of medical waste dumped by the side of one of Galway’s busiest roads has raised alarm this week with public health officials investigating the incident on the outskirts of Tuam. A dozen medical pouches, containing tubed catheter bags full of urine, were discarded on the N17 at Kilcloghans earlier this [...]
TUAM plays host this week to delegates from some of the leading newspapers in the country. The Tuam Herald will host the annual general meeting of the Regional Newspapers and Printers Association of Ireland (RNPAI) this Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4. This is the first time that the annual meeting has been held [...]
By JACQUELINE HOGGE PARENTS of up to 150 children in the Claregalway area have welcomed confirmation that a new second level school for the village will be open and ready for its first intake of students in September next year. The Department of Education and Science confirmed this week that temporary accommodation will be secured [...]
COUNCILLOR Seán Canney has described the decision by the Department of Education to leave Holy Rosary College off the Schools Building Programme as a scandal. In December 2011 an extension was approved to go to tender but when the Government announced their five-year building programme the Mountbellew school had disappeared off the list. Parents and [...]
