OVERWHELMING public support was expressed on the internet and airwaves for 41-year-old Joe McNamara, who was charged last night over an incident in which a 15-tonne cement mixing truck was parked outside the gates of Dáil Éireann as a protest against the bailing out of Anglo Irish Bank.

GALWAY City Council has moved to allay the fears of Magdalene survivors by quashing suggestions that a memorial statue will be relocated due to a new bus lane being put in place.

KEY elements of the Government’s Road Safety Strategy still aren’t in place just two months before it expires, according to Fine Gael road safety spokesman Sean McEntee.

A pensioner has died of her injuries after being hit by a truck in Galway city earlier in the week