An Coimisiún Pleanála has granted planning permission for the N6 Galway City Ring Road — 27 years after engineers were first asked to plan it. Although plans for an outer ring road were first granted in 2008, they were shelved in 2013. A Galway City spokesperson welcomed the news, saying: “Galway County Council and Galway City Council welcome the decision to grant approval. The ring road is not a silver bullet for our city’s traffic congestion issues. Meanwhile, the Galway Commuter Coalition called for the planned Galway Bus Connects Cross-City Link & Dublin Road schemes to be delivered in tandem with the ring road to prevent “the common 'induced demand' phenomenon from choking our city”.

Source: Irish Examiner April 09, 2026 15:42 UTC