I welcome the news that Galway City Council has approved plans to develop a 104 million Euro office development at Galway Docks. Hopefully the development will come to fruition quickly…
There are so many glaring omissions from the Draft National Planning Framework published on Thursday last and it is a document that pays little or no heed to rural Ireland…
The National Planning Framework Draft that was published today has totally ignored the submissions made by people like myself and to me it is anti-rural and does absolutely nothing for…
A points system whereby people on the housing list would be allocated a house in an area where they may not want to live initially but would move there, and…
The EPA report on our waste water services this week shows just how much money is required to put these vital services into acceptable working order in the coming years….
The news that the European Investment Bank is to loan NUI Galway 60 million Euro for campus development and student accommodation is to be welcomed and hopefully the development will…
The Oireachtas may have to pass emergency legilsation to deal with the banks if the current talks with the Government are not successful. The banks have been called in in…
The situation wherby vulture funds are increasingly targetting family farms around the country is a very worrying development and it is something that may need the introduction of emergency legislation….
The news that all family farm transactions are to be protected from the recent new rules on stamp duty as the age limit of 67 is to be removed is…
The terms and conditions laid down by the Department of Agriculture for farmers who might have sought an extension to the latest date for spreading slurry has meant that they…
