Around 1,000 new jobs will be created in Galway following the announcement that the Government has come up with its share of the funding to build the Gort to Tuam motorway. The motorway is being constructed through a public private partnership arrangement with a building consortium which has to match the Government’s funding. Late last year Transport Minister Leo Varadkar revealed that the construction of the M17/M18 motorway, costing €530 million, was dependent on the sale of State assets.
But this situation has now changed with the Government revealing that they are stumping ...
Fine Gael Senator Ciaran Cannon and Councillor Michael Mogie Maher training for the Irish Pilgrimage Trust challenge.
Two Galway Fine Gael representatives will this weekend take on the gruelling challenge of cycling 780km from Dinard in northern France to Lourdes in the foothills of the Pyrenees in the hopes of raising more than €250,000 for young people with special needs.
Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on children and youth affairs, Senator Ciaran Cannon, and Galway County Councillor, Michael Mogie Maher, will join 130 other cyclists from all over Ireland to participate ...
Farmers in South Galway could soon have a seat at the negotiating table during the construction of the new M18 motorway.
Fine Gael Senator Ciaran Cannon is hoping to replicate the successful consultation forum used to resolve disputes between farmers in east Galway and the construction company of the M6.
M6 Construction met with local councillors once a week to address the farmers concerns.
It worked so well, Senator Cannon is now planning to approach the contractor of the M18, once they're appointed, to ask them to do the same with local councillors in South ...
