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“I might be down but I am not out. I have every intention of contesting the next local elections and I would see the best option for me right now is to run as an independent,” said local PD councillor, Walter Lacey, following the devastating news that the Progressive Democrats are no longer politically viable.

Insider has decided to issue a half-term report on the performance of the players in the political game and what the likely results would be in the event of an early election.

The PDs may be about to be swallowed up into the bowels of Fianna Fáil, but if this happens, they will guarantee the Soldiers of Destiny the right to control the Galway County Council after the 2009 Local Elections.

PD councillors Tom Welby and Terry O’Flaherty have declared they will stand as Independent candidates in the 2009 Local Elections, with Cllr Donal Lyons possibly doing the same. Speculation persists however that Noel Grealish, Declan McDonnell, and Jim Cuddy are Fianna Fáil bound.

“I might be down but I am not out. I have every intention of contesting the next local elections and I would see the best option for me right now is to run as an independent,” said local PD councillor, Walter Lacey, following the devastating news that the Progressive Democrats are no longer politically viable.

The next few months will prove to be career-defining times in the lives of Galway’s two party leaders.

“Better red than dead” the English philosopher Bertrand Russell used to say, and for the Labour Party - if the recent The Irish Times/TNS MRBI poll is anything to go by - the phrase has never been more apt.

Sen Ciaran Cannon has said he brought forward his decision to join Fine Gael in order to support Cllr Mogie Maher and other local representatives in the run-up to the Local Elections.