GRD has secured approvals of almost €80,000 funding under the Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme (ORIS) for Mountbellew, the Hymany Way (Portumna to Ballygar) and the Shannon Riverside Walkway near Eyrecourt. The investment will be key to enhancing outdoor amenities such as walkways, cycleways, rivers and lakes across the county.

Minister Heather Humphreys opens a new Galway Rural Development Office in Mountbellew and recognises the success of GRD’s LEADER, Smart Villages scheme in helping to develop sustainable and vibrant rural communities.

Community groups inspired to protect their local water sources

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The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP), delivered by Galway Rural Development across Co Galway, has won the prestigious 2022 UN Public Services Award in the category “Institutional Resilience and Innovative Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Athenry Men’s shed members had a very successful and enjoyable outing to the Bord Bia Bloom horticulture, food and drink showcase at the Phoenix Park on Thursday 2nd of June. . One of the highlights was meeting with President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina, our picture shows Juno Barrett, Jimmy Lynskey, Gerry Connelly and Jim Sheridan with the president and Sabina

Limbering up in Ballinasloe, this Activator Pole Walking training, funded through SICAP, went very well and there is currently a ACTIVATOR TRAINERS WORKSHOP , being run out by Fitwalk Ieland and funded by Galway Sport Partnership for people professionally involved in physical fitness.

The Smart Villages training programme, presented by Cramden-Tech on behalf of Galway Rural Development, commenced for Mountbellew at the end of November.

Abdulwahed joined the GRD CE Programme in May 2021. He is from Libya and has very little English…