Cllr.Alan Curran

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

“In Obama’s world, apparently, some lives matter more than others — and it’s not the ones buried under the debris in Khan Younis.”
~Colin Sheridan @colinivan

Irish Examiner

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June/July Newsletter. If you'd like any further information on anything that I've summarised below, please email me at alan.curran@cgcc.ie.

All these newsletters and other council updates are also available on my website: www.cllralancurran.com

June/July Newsletter. If you'd like any further information on anything that I've summarised below, please email me at alan.curran@cgcc.ie.

All these newsletters and other council updates are also available on my website: www.cllralancurran.com

Consultation for the Salthill Village & Seafront Strategy continues today in the Galway Bay from 12.00 - 14.30.
I met the team yesterday to discuss the report & was extremely impressed. They will have some exciting visuals&designs to show based on feedback so far.
www.galwaycity.ie/news/2025/co...

Was great to get out exploring the woodland with Treasa and Ananda!

Its such a special place!

Join @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social today to help protect more places like this!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Reminder about the two public consultation events today. Coirib go Cósta (flood defences) is on in the Galway Bay Hotel today at 15.00 - 20.00.

WDR Active Travel Scheme on in the Clybaun Hotel now from 12.30 - 19.00.

CgC is on in the Harbour Hotel tomorrow also.

www.floodinfo.ie/frs/en/galwa...

The rangers continue to march east into the rhodo thicket, progress from todays monthly outing - coill gleann dá loch innu
@ciaranpiano.bsky.social @artemistery.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social

Yesterday, @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social showed me around the @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social's new 80-acre reserve, including about 30 of Atlantic rainforest, Coill Sheanadh Gharráin near Spiddal, Galway.

No words could do justice to the magic of the place. I was awestruck.

May Newsletter. If you'd like any further information on anything that I've summarised below, please email me at alan.curran@cgcc.ie.

All these newsletters and other council updates are also available on my website: www.cllralancurran.com

May Newsletter. If you'd like any further information on anything that I've summarised below, please email me at alan.curran@cgcc.ie.

All these newsletters and other council updates are also available on my website: www.cllralancurran.com

Plans for Galway City’s Western Distributor Road Active Travel project welcomed by local councillor

Galway City Council is planning to make the Western Distributor Road safer with protected cycle tracks, new pedestrian crossings and upgraded bus stops with shelters. Details and drawings of the…

All drawings for the wdr active travel scheme, plus photo montages of how it'll look, are now available on the city council website. Send any feedback in, and to me at Alan.curran@cgcc.ie.
www.galwaycity.ie/services/act...

Greta Thunberg. Clear as ever.

www.democracynow.org/2025/6/4/gre...

A planning application for the Active Travel project for the Western Distributor Road has just been lodged. A portal for online submissions will open next Monday & drop in public information event will take place on June 17th in the Clybaun Hotel. Fantastic news.
www.galwaycity.ie/services/act...

The LDA & Galway Harbour Co. have announced the public consultation for the redevelopment of the inner port. Click into the website below & drop into the consultation on the 3rd/4th June in the Portershed. Make sure your voice is heard, this is a massive development for Galway www.galway-harbour.com

Asked to share this event in GALWAY CITY

www.eventbrite.com/e/galway-gre...

YouTube video by Voesis Studios Google AI | Car Show with VEO 3

We've reached the point in time now where anything and everything that we view online needs to be considered fake.
Truth? Reality? Fact checking?
Where do we go from here?

Everything in the below video is AI generated using VEO3.

Seeing is no longer believing.

youtu.be/OiuJfZ7LX1c?...

A great carnival atmosphere down in Salthill Park at Africa Day despite the weather. Summer rain has returned to Galway! Pop down if you abe a chance, the stalls and musicians will be here until 6.

A cycle track in the Netherlands at a red light, with 5 people waiting, including a mum and her young son.

If your cycle infrastructure isn't safe enough for everyone, of any age, to feel they can use it, then your cycle infrastructure isn't safe enough.

Been putting this together for a while…https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-palestine-music-is-more-than-artits-a-lifeline

How the West was won The pedestrianisation of streets in Galway’s West End went ahead this week, after last-minute negotiations between local traders, a city councillor and a transport activist means outdoor dancing...

The pedestrianisation of streets in Galway’s West End went ahead this week, after last-minute negotiations between local traders, a city councillor and a transport activist means outdoor dancing and dining can go ahead www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

Social Democrats to table Bill to reduce voting age to 16 ‘People aged 16 and 17 are as civically informed as their peers aged over 18, but are unjustly restricted,’ said Social Democrats TD Aidan Farrelly.

‘People aged 16 and 17 are as civically informed as their peers aged over 18, but are unjustly restricted,’ said Social Democrats TD Aidan Farrelly.
http://jrnl.ie/6709523

Apologies you already sent them to me. Too much going on!! School finished soon, so I've all of June to entertain myself with fixing these!

Need to make a list of these locations. Alan.curran@cgcc.ie if you know of many and I'll pass them on.

It'll be gone soon....

April Newsletter. If you'd like any further information on anything that I've summarised below, please email me at alan.curran@cgcc.ie.

All these newsletters and other council updates are also available on my website: www.cllralancurran.com

#DarknessIntoLight
#PietaHouse

‘Adolescence’ raises questions about our involvement in our children’s online lives The compelling British drama ‘Adolescence’ that both captivated and shocked viewers has raised urgent questions about parents’ involvement in their children’s online lives.

A short opinion piece I wrote in the @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social about the role parents have in their child's online lives. I would support a ban on social media for u16's.
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...