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With 24 hours to polling day Labour teeters on the brink of collapse, Fianna Fáil on the edge of recovery, and Sinn Féin and Independents ready to make significant electoral breakthroughs.

With three weeks to go to polling, there is much to play for across each of the three Galway city electoral wards. Poster campaigns are now in full flow and candidates are falling over each other for the affections of voters on the doorsteps.

A ‘One Stop Shop’, to allow people get on the Supplemental Register of Electors and be able to vote on May 23, is being opened by the Galway City Council.

With more than 74 empty houses and 3,619 households on the housing waiting list, the recent allocation of €415,000 for the city, although welcome, is a drop in the ocean with more needed to tackle the lack of housing which is at crisis point.

Seventy-eight houses lying vacant in Galway city is an “unacceptably high figure” when some families have been waiting 11 on the housing waiting list.

Seventy-eight houses lying vacant in Galway city is an “unacceptably high figure” when some families have been waiting 11 on the housing waiting list.

The public have until 5.30pm on Tuesday to make submissions, in writing, to An Bord Pleanála on the proposed major redevelopment of Galway Harbour.

Labour is confident it can retain at least four of its five Galway City Council seats, but in running three candidates in Galway City Central, it is taking a high risk strategy.

Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, and senior representatives of the Office of Public Works (OPW) have been called on to visit Galway as a matter of urgency and to meet with city councillors and officials to discuss concerns over the extensive damage caused by the recent storms and flooding.

A mixture of familiar faces, dynasties, and at least one new name characterise the make up of Fine Gael’s 2014 Local Election ticket for Galway city.