As concerned parents and students of Tuam Educate Together National School, we are writing to bring attention to several road safety concerns that affect our daily commute to school and our children’s safety while at school.  We respectfully request that consideration be given to the following proposals to improve road safety for students in Tuam:  Grant access to the adjacent Sports Pitches and Sports Hall for students from Tuam Educate Together National School. Install speed bumps on Dublin Road, Athenry Road, and Frank Stockwell Road to reduce traffic speeds and promote a safer walking environment for students. This will ensure that students can walk safely to and from school, regardless of the road conditions. Install illuminated speed signs on these roads with clear signage indicating the recommended speed limit in the town (30 km/hr) to educate drivers about the need for reduced speeds and promote a culture of safety.  Employ a School Warden to provide support for students crossing Dublin Road near the Old Courthouse, ensuring their safe passage during morning, afternoon, and daytime hours.  Make provision for parking along these three routes to ensure safe drop off and collections for students and their families every morning and evening, in particular adequate spaces for people with disabilities to park. We appeal to the Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien, An Taisce, the RSA and the Department of Transport to prioritise Tuam Schools in their Safer Routes to School programme to ensure that students in Tuam can access their schools safely. We ask that Galway County Council expedite their Tuam Active Travel Scheme so that construction begins this year on the Dublin Road to ensure students will be able to travel safely to and from school. We believe that these measures will significantly improve road safety for students in Tuam and contribute to creating a more harmonious and pedestrian-friendly community and enable safe and convenient transportation of students before and after school. We would be grateful if you could consider our proposals and take steps to address these concerns.

This campaign was launched for women and children to get a refuge and a means of emergency accommodation in Carlow for Women and Children. The Council have responded to our calls and given the green light to funding a 6 bedroom house. This is compared to the refuge in Kilkenny which has a capacity of 55 people. We are calling on the Council to provide a more suitable location to meet the needs and the size of the constituency.

There are minimal facilities indoors for babies and young children during wet weather periods. Currently there is only a cinema and the swimming pool. The closest soft play area is 40 minutes away in Nenagh.  It's our intention to get as many signatures as possible, and with the help of local government official's to convince the Tipperary Co Council to help provide this invaluable resource in Thurles. 

Get back into government to protect people from fuel poverty, and widespread cuts to public services. The pressures are too great and the risks are too high. Now is the time to end the boycott and get the institutions up and running again. We need political leaders in office so that important decisions can be taken to address the challenges facing our communities.

As we speak 500 hares are being held captive awaiting their fate, forced to run for their lives. The coursing "festival" comes to Clonmel Co. Tipperary in February. These hares are taken from all over Ireland from their natural enviorment and terrorised. Is this modern Ireland? Does this represent your thinking because the taxpayer is propping up the greyhound industry every year..Sign the petition, let the TDs know you want to call for a ban on all bloodsports, where you go politicians will follow they want your vote

Stop Eirgrid from building an energy converter in Knockraha Area.

I want you to know that there is mass solidarity with the Debenhams workers and their fight for a decent redundancy package.

Stop using harmful plastic packaging in its 800 stores throughout Ireland and switch to compostable bioplastics and paper packaging, which is now easily available in Ireland.

Stop the non recyclable plastic packaging of fruit and vegetable portions supplied to Primary Schools as part of the Food Dudes programme. To switch to more eco friendly packaging for next year's programme.

Instead of prioritising public housing Nama is being actively used to build/provide private housing. Nama is owned by the state and we are in the middle of a housing emergency. Niamh McDonald, one of the coordinators and activists with Irish Housing Network, accurately explained the purpose of the occupation. Niamh McDonald one of the organisers of the Apollo House occupation says : “It exposes the government’s inadequate response to the homelessness crisis and the way in which through NAMA they are putting profits and economic gain before the needs of our most vulnerable citizens”.