Galway City Council urged to use spare cash to open Museum on Sundays

 Galway City Council has been urged to use the additional resources it will enjoy in the coming months to open the City Museum on Sundays.

 The City Manager, Brendan McGrath said last week that the Government’s Gateway jobs’ initiative and reassigned staff from the refuse service, which has now been privatised, will allow the Council greater flexibility when examining its options.

Galway City Councillor Ollie Crowe is now intent on ensuring the Council utilises additional resources to open the City Museum on Sundays. It is an issue, along with Sunday burials, on which Cllr Crowe has long been campaigning.

Galway City Museum attracted over 160,000 visitors in 2012.

Cllr Crowe said that while this was a good achievement, it also, “illustrated the figures which are easily attainable, with Sunday being the second busiest day of the week in terms of visiting tourists, there is no doubt that if the Museum opens Sundays, visitor numbers will go up beyond 200,000.”

Cllr Crowe referenced research, which states that over 91% of visitors are attracted to Galway by our culture and history.

He said that the statistics make it “abundantly clear that getting our City Museum opened on Sundays should be a matter of priority for Galway City Council”.

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