The project aims to install a cycle and walkway going from Galway city to Clifden over 76 kilometres

The currently derelict Dooley’s Pub will be converted to include a community facility

Cllr Carroll said that the community should have been informed two weeks ago about the plans to accommodate international protection applicants in the hotel.

Councillors at this meeting of Galway County Council highlighted incidences where married couples pretended to break-up in order to successfully secure planning permission for a second, one-off house, in addition to their family home.

Galway has faced huge disruption to it's water services across the last 12 months.

The planning application, which was first submitted in 2018, will revert to the stance it held on June 2021, immediately after An Bord Pleanála’s planning inspector made a submission on the proposal.

Galway County Council has refused to extend the life of planning permissions for a scheme of houses that the local authority has agreed to buy