Connacht Tribune / City Tribune - News and information in Galway

The Galway Minister with responsibility for road safety has highlighted what he described as two major pieces of legislation that he said would help reduce fatalities and serious injuries on the country’s road.
Minister Seán Canney was referring to the National Vehicle and Driver File Bill and the Road Traffic Bill together represent a comprehensive package of reforms focused on making Ireland’s roads safer....

A verbal row over ‘silly stuff’ between two women outside a Conamara school during a scheduled transfer of children between a separated couple, then escalated into violence between two men.
Before Derrynea District Court was Adrian Stadnik of 27 An Garraí Gabhainn, Moycullen, Galway, who was charged with assaulting Patrick Lee outside Scoil Náisiúnta Leitir Mealláin, on the R374 in Leitir Mealláin on June 3, 2024....

Several hundred protesters turned out in Dunmore lastweekend to express their frustration of the lack of willpower to widen one of the village’s main streets, used by thousands of motorists every day.
Bridge Street is a bottleneck because it is extremely difficult for two vehicles to pass. Lorries or busses have no chance if they meet oncoming traffic....

By Ronan Judge
A 21-year-old Dublin man has pleaded guilty to an arson attack that endangered the life of a woman in her eighties at her home on the Eastside of Galway City last year.
The interior and exterior of the victim’s home was damaged as was a vehicle parked at the property in the Ballybane area....