‘Ban’ on new sex shops in Dominick Street area

Date Published: 09-Sep-2010

By Bernie Ní Fhlatharta

BUSINESSES involved in the sex trade will be discouraged in future from opening up in The West to protect the sensitivities of what is also a residential area located between two schools.

Cllr Catherine Connolly told a meeting of Galway City Council on Monday that she hoped that there would be a total clampdown on the sex business in Dominick Street.

She got assurances from planners that the concerns of local people would be taken into consideration in each individual change of use application.

She expressed concerns that particular commercial developments, such as lap dancing clubs and adult shops in Dominick Street were having a negative impact on the residential amenity of The West.

“The Jes school is around the corner and it is absolutely unacceptable that that these businesses would be on a street passed every day by pupils,” she said.

For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune