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January 17 2008

Galway's future water needs are more important than the past says Walsh
BY KERNAN ANDREWS Galway's future water supply and demand needs are a pressing problem facing the city and should be the chief concern of all councillors, and not what happened in the past. This is the view of Fine Gael Cllr Brian Walsh who has lambasted a number of fellow councillors, who called for independent inquiries and reports into last year's cryptosporidium outbreak at Monday's city council meeting. "They're only playing the blame game and looking for blood," he told the Galway Advertiser, "but it's in the past. This is a futile exercise and has been dealt with. We are now facing new water concerns, but that was lost at the meeting because of those looking for inquiries." Cllr Walsh is calling on all councillors to "focus their energies" in order to find long term solutions for Galway's water supply. Galway is still drawing some of its water from the Luimnagh plant but this can only be a medium term solution as other areas of the county will need to draw from it as well. As a result, the Galway City Council has applied to the Department of the Environment for funding in order to upgrade the new Terryland Water Treatment Plant. If successful, work can be carried out within 12 months and this would see the plant's capacity rise. Cllr Walsh says the capacity of the plant will then be c80,000 to 100,000 cubic metres a day. "This will free Galway of Luimnagh and give us an independent supply," said Cllr Walsh. "This will supply the city's own needs and it's this issue - our future needs - we should focus on, not the past."

Galway Astronomy Club to celebrate ten years with space festival
BY KERNAN ANDREWS The Galway Astronomy Club will celebrate its 10th birthday during the Galway Astronomy Festival which promises to unravel some of the mysteries of the universe. The Galway Astronomy Festival opens with a free talk on Friday January 25 at 7.30pm at the IT Building, NUI Galway. Galway Astronomy Club secretary Ronan Newman will talk about robotic exploration of the outer solar system especially focusing on the NASA Galileo mission to Jupiter in the 1990s. On Saturday 26 at 10am at the Westwood House Hotel Dr Simon Green, a senior lecturer in the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute of the Open University, will give a talk entitled Stardust: A new view of Comets? He will focus on the first NASA space mission dedicated solely to the exploration of a comet and to return extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the moon. Comets may hold clues to the evolution of the sun, its planets, and possibly even the origin of life. Further talks during the festival include Is Pluto a Planet, why was it downgraded to a dwarf? by Dr Matt Redman, the Dept of Experimental Physics, NUIG; Dr Nicholas Devaney will look at the latest pioneering work using the most powerful telescopes on earth; Dr Mark Lang will talk about the VERITAS project with its array of four 12m telescopes that will examine the heavens in the very-high-energy gamma rays range from its observatory at Mount Whipple, Arizona. Tickets for the Saturday are available at the door from 9am. There will also be a telescope building workshop, information stands including the European Space Agency, David Moore of Astronomy Ireland, and as bonus attendees will get a chance to visit the NUIG observatory. Later that night weather permitting some of Ireland's biggest telescopes will be assembled for a special viewing session to be organised near Rosscahill. For more information on the Galway Astronomy Festival contact 086 8434003 or go to www.galwayastronomycl ub.ie

Emily Prendergast, Oranmore, and Noel Cunningham, Salthill, at the Dream Wedding Exhibition in Leisureland on Sunday. Photo:-Mike Shaughnessy

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