Multimillion euro land purchase lying idle in Galway

In 2008, Galway City Council purchased land for €10.5m, over €4m more than it had changed hands for only months before, and has done nothing with it. Political Editor Daniel McConnell reports.

THIS saga began in late 2006. On the outskirts of Galway city at a time when the entire country had gone mad for building houses and apartments, a local developer agrees to buy a 7.6 acres plot of land, in two lots, from a local farmer.

They agree a price of €6.5m for the land known as Keeraun on the Ballymoneen Road and the deal is done.