Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

Galway City Community Safety Partnership should be renamed Galway City Community Secret Partnership as it continues to meet in-camera, without media present.

This forum of city stakeholders which replaced the discontinued Galway City Joint Policing Committee, has met at least twice since it was formed late last year.

But media organisations and by extension, the public have not been invited to attend what have become private sessions.

When Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan published guidelines to establish the new committees, he pledged that they would operate “transparently and efficiently”.

He described partnerships to replace JPCs as “a much more collaborative, responsive and locally driven approach to community safety.”

That may be so, but how do we........

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