Galway Bay fm newsroom - Galway Technical Institute in the city says it needs a substantial programme of investment to upgrade its Fr. Griffin Road facility.
GTI is the largest college of Further Education & Training in the west of Ireland.
Its current capacity is 650, with a full-time enrolment in 2017/2018 of over 11 hundred.
The board of GTI says more than half a million euro in critical upgrade works are now urgently needed.
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Chairperson of GTI Board of Management, Councillor Niall McNelis says it used to get such funding directly from the Department of Education but has now fallen between two stools
