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Broadcaster and former election candidate Gráinne Seoige has called for urgent action to address the rapid rise of AI apps and encrypted messaging platforms that are enabling the creation and mass circulation of non-consensual sexual imagery – warning...

The new €80m library at the University of Galway is to be named in honour of a student who was murdered soon after she completed her medical studies there in 2006 –  a week away from her formal graduation as a doctor.
The naming of the Dr Karen Guinee Library – announced this week – is the result of a ‘significant philanthropic gift’ to the university from the Michael Guinee Charitable Foundation, which was established by Dr Guinee’s uncle and godfather....

Just over one in every ten posts in Galway’s Children’s Disability Network Teams (CDNT) are vacant, according to the latest HSE figures.
A snapshot of the staffing profile of CDNTs in Galway show a variation in vacancies depending on postcodes.
There were six unfilled positions in Galway City East CDNT, but there were no vacancies in Galway City West CDNT....

A masterplan is to be drawn up for the Dunmore Bridge Street regeneration project after the ‘limited scope’ of plans led to the withdrawal of a planning application in November.
A meeting of Tuam Municipal District heard this week that proposals brought forward had to be rescinded as they only included a section of the street....