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Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has called for the establishment of a cross party Dáil Committee which, supported by the State, would design and builds on the key elements of a third banking force.

Roscommon/Galway Deputy, Denis Naughten, has confirmed his intention to attain the role of Ceann Comhairle of the 33rd Dáil.

Joe Loughnane, the city's most prominent and outspoken anti-racist campaigner, has been chosen by People Before Profit as its Election 2020 candidate for Galway West.

The constituency office of Mayo Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin on John Street in Ballina had a petrol bomb thrown through its front window on Tuesday just after 7pm. One unit of the Mayo County Fire Service attended the scene and brought the blaze under control and minimal damage was caused to the office, mostly as a result of smoke.

The catastrophic collapse of Fianna Fáil’s support at the last general election saw the party lose half of its seats in Galway as it nose-dived to the worst electoral result in its illustrious history.

I made two mistakes last week. I got my months mixed up. Instead of a period of less than two years from the battle at his home Muintir Eoin in the Maam Valley to when he was appointed Leas Ceann Comhairle (deputy speaker) of the new Irish Dáil, I said it was less than ‘eight months’. Secondly the photograph. An utter mystery! It just appeared from cyber space by magic. No idea where it came from.

Fine Gael has been regularly referred to as the “Family at War”, and with the party’s election selection convention for candidates to contest the General Election in Galway West imminent, it has really pushed the boat out to live up to this billing.

If Fine Gael win the next General Election, the party’s Galway West TD Pádraic McCormack could become the next Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.

Galway politics has had three Frank Fahys. There is the Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey, the Fine Gael candidate Frank Fahy in last year’s local elections, and an important but often overlooked Frank Fahy who was a TD for almost 35 years.

Two remarkable Kilkenny men have accepted invitations to be made freemen of Kilkenny city.