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Minister Phil Hogan’s eyes were still adjusting to natural light last week after spending the duration of the recent referendum campaign locked in the basement of Government Buildings.

Galway is set to become the battleground for an internecine struggle over who will be elected chair of the Labour Party this month as both the party’s Galway TDs - Derek Nolan (Galway West) and Colm Keaveney (Galway East) are understood to be touting for support among their parliamentary colleagues.

Forty houses in the Claddagh, which are discharging raw sewage into the River Corrib, are to be connected to the city’s main sewerage works.

A local city councillor and former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has challenged Galway’s Government TDs to honour a commitment they gave to seek a meeting with Health Minister Dr James Reilly about the need to keep St Francis’ Nursing Home open.

If recycling is to continue in The Claddagh then the Galway City Council must install new bottle banks in the area, according to Independent councillor Catherine Connolly.

A plot of land at the rear of the Shantalla Community Centre is to become a community allotment site for gardening and vegetable growing enthusiasts.

The dust has settled; the new Government has come through its first 100 days; Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and US president Barack Obama have been and gone; Garrett the Good, Declan Costello, and Brian Lenihan - three icons of Irish politics - have passed to their eternal reward. What a first six months of 2011 this has been.

A question mark hands over the validity of the Galway City Development Plan arising from a row between the Mayor of Galway and Independent Cllr Catherine Connolly during a council meeting last January which approved the plan.

A meeting between the Galway City Council and Dominick Street businesses is vital to allay concerns over road closures during work to connect the area to the city’s main sewage discharge pipes.

The big story of the election was the collapse of the Fianna Fáil vote nationally but it is evident from the statistics in Galway East that Labour gained substantially from this implosion, increasing its vote by 10.1 per cent, and leading to the surprise election of Colm Keaveney.