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In April 2021, the Gluas Group held a webinar in which Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan announced a feasibility study on Light Rail for 2022. [11]In October 2024, a feasibility study commissioned by the National Transport Authority found that there was a case for constructing a fifteen-kilometre light rail line from Roscam to Knocknacarra via Eyre Square and University Hospital Galway.
The West is a strategic planning area within the Northern and Western Region in Ireland. It is a NUTS Level III statistical region of Ireland (coded IE042) [1] under the Eurostat classification. It consists of the counties of Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, and the city of Galway.
[11] [12] Plans were submitted to Galway City Council the following December with full planning permission secured in May 2019. In January 2020, the Government announced funding totalling €20m towards the project, with €10m coming from the Large Scale Sports Infrastructure Fund, and a further €10m from the Project 2040 fund in line with ...
A 2014 County Development Plan (for the period 2015–2021) has again identified the need for an R336 upgrade, specifically between Barna and Screeb, a distance of 42 kilometres (26 mi). The plan considers the road a "a major obstacle to developing the South Connemara region and economy".
The Western Railway Corridor is a term, used since c. 2003, for a partly disused railway line running through the west of Ireland.Currently two sections of the line, from Limerick via Ennis to Athenry and from Collooney to Sligo, see regular services, with other sections either closed or only technically classed as open.
Galway County Council (Irish: Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe) is the local authority of County Galway, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, environment, and local fire ...
Galway was nevertheless intermittently described as a city; John Speed's 1610 map of "Connaugh" includes a plan of "the Citie of Galway". [110] In The history of the town and county of the town of Galway (1820), James Hardiman generally describes it as a town.
The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85, Pat Finnegan, 2012; Loughrea, that den of infamy: The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82, Pat Finnegan, 2014. East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922, Anne O'Riordan, 2015. Rebellion in Galway – Easter Rising 1916 Kevin Jordan ...