Free Council Text Alert Service for Galway City

MapAlerter is used by Galway City Council to communicate with local residents and workers about service disruptions, public health issues and other important updates. You can now sign up for this free service to get SMS text alerts, emails and app notifications for your local area.

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Free SMS Text, Email & App Alerts for your Galway City location

Galway City Council joined MapAlerter in 2024 as the Council's preferred communications platform to issue alerts for all parts of the county. By signing up as a subscriber, you can select a mapped location in the county to ensure you only receive alerts that are locally relevant. For example, if you live in Westport then you will only get road alerts for this part of Mayo and you will not get road alerts for any faraway places.

You also have the choice to add a Home and Work location so you can get alerts for both places along with commute alerts for any road issues between both places. For example, if you live in Ballybrit and work in Salthill then you will receive alerts for both of these places along with any road alerts issued along the connecting route.

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Road Works

Severe Weather

Floods & Hazards

Planning Activity

Public Consultations

Miscellaneous Alerts

Typical Alerts issued by Galway City Council

MapAlerter issues free SMS, email and app alerts across six core categories. Galway City Council issues alerts for all six categories, as follows:

Roads Alerts: Scheduled road works, oil spills, impassable roads, diversion information and more.
Weather Alerts: Level Orange and Level Red warnings for Galway. Other localised events also sometimes published depending on the situation (e.g. yellow alerts and weather advisories).
Floods & Hazards: Spot flooding, high water levels and storm events such as fallen trees, fallen power lines and more.
Planning Activity: Weekly planning lists are emailed for new and decided planning applications around your primary/home location. Development plan updates are also issued as required (e.g. consultation notices).
Public Consultation Alerts: Get alerts for active consultations in time for you to make a submission.
Miscellaneous: Other alerts from the Council are issued for a variety of topics such as road safety and other local community events.

Download the free MapAlerter smartphone app for iPhone and Android

MapAlerter includes a fully featured smartphone app that allows you to keep up to date with instant updates from Galway City Council. The MapAlerter App is completely free; there is no download charge and there are no in-app purchases. The app is compatible with all later versions of iPhone and Android. The benefits of using the app are as follows:

Push Notifications: Councils will sometimes issue alerts without SMS text messages in order to reduce their running costs. Instead, these alerts are issued as push notifications so the app is a great way to ensure you do not miss any vital alerts.
User-friendly mapping system: The MapAlerter app includes an easy-to-operate interactive mapping module that allows you to browse alerts and other mapped information for your local area.
Additional Mapping Information: Apart from Council alerts, the interactive mapping includes live feeds of various sensor data, including river heights and road temperatures. The property price register is also includes to show the location and prices of recent properties sold in your local area.
Quick Signup: You can sign up for a free MapAlerter account directly on the app using your Eircode.

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