Galway groups working to save city environment

The Irish Times

Wanted city architect for thriving west coast port which is rapidly destroying its own unique environment. Pay and conditions commensurate with extensive responsibilities . . . It is not the sort of wording Galway City Council would choose to use. Nor is it a post that all of its members would support. Some 18 months after a Labour Party proposal for such a position was moved at a corporation meeting, a senior executive architect is now due to be appointed. However, the appointee will deal mainly with the authority's own housing schemes.

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