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Would compulsory voting empower Galway’s disaffected citizens?

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley There’s a housing estate in Tuam where a third of all residents are not registered to...

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Dara Bradley

Cat Connolly clawed but President purrs after RTÉ radio puff piece

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Headlines arising from an interview President Michael D Higgins gave to RTÉ radio’s...

06.09.2025 9

Dara Bradley

Galway FG is united against ‘other’ Presidential hopefuls

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Presidential hopefuls looking for nominations from Galway City Council and Galway County...

30.08.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Galway West jockeying for position if Catherine wins Áras

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Catherine Connolly’s Presidential candidacy puts her political rivals in Galway West...

23.08.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Galway voting public deserves reasons why Seoighthe resigned

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley In September 2013, when former Galway West TD, Brian Walsh was expelled from Fine Gael,...

16.08.2025 30

Dara Bradley

Galway rejects Doran McMahon and his ilk

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley A total of 60,652 people voted in the Galway West constituency in last November’s...

09.08.2025 30

Dara Bradley

Galway public consulted on everything – except Crown!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway City Council has been flat out consulting ever since it sealed the Crown Square...

26.07.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Galway’s Council shows ‘neck’ as it borrows more for new HQ

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley You’d almost admire the neck with which Galway City Council offers retrospective...

19.07.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Galway councillors face the chop over Shantalla helipad land-grab

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Residents of Shantalla have turned up the heat on Galway City Councillors, ahead of a...

12.07.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Casual sexism features at Galway Council’s AGM

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The late Mary Byrne was a trailblazer. A former Fianna Fáil Councillor from Henry...

05.07.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Department confused over County Galway’s first cost-rental homes in Bearna village

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Bearna is getting 14 cost-rental homes next year, according to Housing Minister James...

21.06.2025 8

Dara Bradley

Bus shelter scandals show Galway struggles to get simple stuff right

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Bus shelters are a basic infrastructure. They’re structures with roofs that keep...

14.06.2025 10

Dara Bradley

University of Galway should cut ‘Mow Away May’ policy!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Now that June has arrived, biodiversity campaigners say it’s okay to mow the grass...

07.06.2025 10

Dara Bradley

It’s a small world!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley As they say out the country, you wouldn’t know who you’d meet at Mass! War-time...

24.05.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Secretive CEDIY left Galway communities in dark on IPAS

Bradley Bytes – A sort of polical column by Dara Bradley The Government’s inability or unwillingness to communicate with communities sowed seeds...

17.05.2025 20

Dara Bradley

Galway Airport sale reminds public of City Council’s record on property

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway City Council’s relatively recent record of property transactions is not great....

10.05.2025 40

Dara Bradley

Galway councillor quits Facebook as colleague lashes ‘toxic’ comments

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway City Councillor Alan Curran has quit Facebook – soon after he left Twitter. The...

03.05.2025 9

Dara Bradley

Westside is not Galway’s best side for proper planning

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Around 400 of Ireland’s finest planning brains gathered in Galway for a four-day...

26.04.2025 20

Dara Bradley

Galway needs to up its game as tourist season gets going

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley So long, then, to the boom. The city’s ugly Aquadam – not its buoyant economy – is...

19.04.2025 9

Dara Bradley

State of Spanish Arch shows official Galway’s contempt for tourists, locals

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Have you noticed the absolute state of Spanish Arch and Spanish Parade lately? Maybe...

12.04.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Leo shoots the breeze at Galway road safety event

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the radical Right’s lightning rod for perceived...

05.04.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Bertie reeling in the years with Galway Races gag at Ó Cuív gig

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Bertie Ahern had the Fianna Fáil faithful in stitches at Éamon Ó Cuív’s retirement...

29.03.2025 7

Dara Bradley

Galway Council’s Mervue move a ‘serious error of judgement’

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Well done to hard-working brave Galway City Council staff who protested at City Hall...

15.03.2025 7

Dara Bradley

The University of Galway would benefit from a woman president

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Lads, it’s time to appoint a women head of University of Galway. For 180 years,...

08.03.2025 10

Dara Bradley

City Council funding of Galway’s arts scene amounts to crumbs

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley We need to get real about funding the arts in Galway. Galway City Council last week...

01.03.2025 10

Dara Bradley

From loser to leader – how Simon saved Seán!

Bradley Bytes – a sort of political column by Dara Bradley Seán Kyne told this newspaper last December he was leaving politics for good. But like...

22.02.2025 10

Dara Bradley

RTÉ needs a kicking over Callan’s absence

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley It would be like the GAA championship in full swing, without the return of The Sunday...

15.02.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Poll puts Cat (Connolly) among presidential pigeons!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley We’ve said it before in this column, and now we’ve evidence to back it up: Catherine...

08.02.2025 10

Dara Bradley

What is Fine Gael’s problem with Galway?

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway’s would-be senior cabinet minister, Hildegarde Naughton, has put on a brave...

01.02.2025 40

Dara Bradley

Galway Chamber of Commerce needs to find itself once again

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway Chamber, the city’s business lobby group, has a big year ahead of it, after a...

25.01.2025 9

Dara Bradley

Galway’s ‘arthouse cinema’ should not have been built

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley A decent sized crowd stormed the foyer of City Hall Monday, as part of a public protest...

18.01.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Parking fiasco another fine mess of Galway City Council’s making

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Well, that’s another fine mess that Galway City Council has found itself in. And...

11.01.2025 10

Dara Bradley

Gráinne Seoige experiment among moments of Galway’s political year

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley In a year packed with elections – two referendums and Local, European and Dáil...

04.01.2025 20

Dara Bradley

John Connolly, the TD, is playing senior hurling now!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley John Connolly, Galway West’s newest TD, has been involved in electoral politics for over...

29.12.2024 10

Dara Bradley

Well wishes to Galway councillor who slipped after Christmas party

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The cheer of the Mayor’s Christmas party evaporated quickly for one city councillor last...

21.12.2024 5

Dara Bradley

How did TG4 poll compare with Galway West result?

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The Ipso/B&A opinion poll of Galway West, published by TG4 on November 14, two weeks...

14.12.2024 5

Dara Bradley

Morocco blues for Cubbard who counts the cost of GE campaign

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Patricia Ryan, an Independent – ex-Sinn Féin – TD who was first elected in Kildare...

06.12.2024 7

Dara Bradley

Department of Integration secrecy fuels fears in Galway communities

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The Department of Integration is dysfunctional. DCEDIY, (Department of Children,...

29.11.2024 10

Dara Bradley

Is FF in freefall in Galway West?

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The TG4 Ipsos and B&A constituency poll of Galway West last Thursday made for grim...

22.11.2024 5

Dara Bradley

New Government must scrutinise how state bodies spend our money

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Waste of public money, while ordinary people suffer cost of living increases, is an...

15.11.2024 10

Dara Bradley

Have Galway councillors any interest in Crown loan rates?

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley The purchase of Crown Square by Galway City Council so the local authority could...

08.11.2024 5

Dara Bradley

Banjaxed Bearna bus service won’t coax people out of cars

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Take a stroll through Thornberry, Creagan, Carraig an Iolar, or any other estate in...

01.11.2024 5

Dara Bradley

Infighting among Galway’s Councillors over divisive LPT

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley No issue has divided Galway city councillors like the increase in Local Property Tax...

25.10.2024 3

Dara Bradley

Council’s planned rates hike will bury Galway businesses

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley News that Galway City Council wants to impose a 15% hike in commercial rates paid by...

18.10.2024 10

Dara Bradley

LPT hike silence? No worries, gym’ll fix it!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Fun and games in Fianna Fáil out in Galway East, where whippersnapper Albert Dolan,...

11.10.2024 4

Dara Bradley

Cherry-picking corncrake data to manipulate news

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Junior Minister for Nature, Malcolm Noonan, issued a statement welcoming a 2024 survey...

20.09.2024 20

Dara Bradley

Higgins keeps it country as Galway East goes with Clo!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley ‘Go with Clo’ was Clodagh Higgins’ slogan during her successful June Local Election...

13.09.2024 3

Dara Bradley

Savvy Seoige stays schtum – for now!

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Broadcaster Gráinne Seoige did a series of interviews with various media organisations...

06.09.2024 3

Dara Bradley

Beanstalk debacle recalled as Galway murals multiply

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Are you old enough to remember when graffiti art on gable ends of businesses in Galway...

23.08.2024 3

Dara Bradley

Trans Tribe of Galway needs to be supported

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley Galway Community Pride week is upon us; it’s time again to celebrate the local LGBT ...

16.08.2024 20

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Would compulsory voting empower Galway’s disaffected citizens?

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Galway voting public deserves reasons why Seoighthe resigned

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Galway councillors face the chop over Shantalla helipad land-grab

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Department confused over County Galway’s first cost-rental homes in Bearna village

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Bus shelter scandals show Galway struggles to get simple stuff right

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University of Galway should cut ‘Mow Away May’ policy!

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It’s a small world!

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Secretive CEDIY left Galway communities in dark on IPAS

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Galway Airport sale reminds public of City Council’s record on property

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Galway councillor quits Facebook as colleague lashes ‘toxic’ comments

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Westside is not Galway’s best side for proper planning

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Galway needs to up its game as tourist season gets going

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State of Spanish Arch shows official Galway’s contempt for tourists, locals

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Leo shoots the breeze at Galway road safety event

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Bertie reeling in the years with Galway Races gag at Ó Cuív gig

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Galway Council’s Mervue move a ‘serious error of judgement’

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The University of Galway would benefit from a woman president

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City Council funding of Galway’s arts scene amounts to crumbs

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From loser to leader – how Simon saved Seán!

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RTÉ needs a kicking over Callan’s absence

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Poll puts Cat (Connolly) among presidential pigeons!

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What is Fine Gael’s problem with Galway?

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Galway Chamber of Commerce needs to find itself once again

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Galway’s ‘arthouse cinema’ should not have been built

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Parking fiasco another fine mess of Galway City Council’s making

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Morocco blues for Cubbard who counts the cost of GE campaign

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