Galway East TD and Minister of State for Community Development Seán Canney has called on youth clubs and organisations to seek a share of €2.4 million in capital grant funding announced by the Government. Youth [...]
GET YOUR PASSPORT APPLICATIONS IN EARLY! Thanks to Brexit, we are now experiencing a record number of passport applications. I am advising everyone to get their applications in early to avoid any last minute stress. [...]
PEATLANDS COMMUNITY I very much welcome the launch of the 2019 Peatlands Community Engagement Scheme by my colleague, the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan TD. The Scheme aims to encourage local [...]
DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE Galway is to get three new outreach workers for frontline services to combat domestic, sexual and gender-based violence as part of a €23.8 million national funding allocation this year. The move [...]
NEW FOREST OWNER PAYMENTS More than 4,000 forest owners who applied for their annual premium payments by paper application have received grants amounting to €15.4 million. The payments follow on from more than 6,000 payments [...]
THE BIG HELLO There are going to be 43 community events all over County Galway this Bank Holiday Weekend to mark the Big Hello, Ireland's first ever National Community Weekend. There are a huge variety [...]
Forty three Galway community groups will be saying a Big Hello to mark Ireland's first National Community Weekend. The Big Hello, which is an initiative by the Department for Rural and Community Development, will take [...]
Galway is to get three new outreach workers for frontline services to combat domestic, sexual and gender-based violence as part of a €23.8 million national funding allocation this year. The move announced by the Department [...]
COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMME 2019 I am urging community and voluntary not-for-profit groups to get their applications in for the Community Enhancement Programme 2019. The programme, which is funded by the Department for Rural and Community [...]
More than 4,000 forest owners who applied for their annual premium payments by paper application have received grants amounting to €15.4 million this week. The payments follow on from more than 6,000 payments made in [...]
