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Water charges are not about water conservation, but about profit as the as yet unknown standing charge will have to be paid even if a household uses no water.

As readers of this page are well aware, there are two elections due on May 23, the Local Elections, and the election to that most useless of institutions, the so- called European Parliament.

John Mulholland and Keith Finnegan recently discussed the bookmaker’s odds for all the local election candidates across the city on Galway Bay FM.

Government candidates in the local elections must “come clean” about the expected costs water charges will impos to householders.

Sean Byrne has been selected as the Anti-Austerity Alliance’s Galway City Central candidate for next May’s Local Elections.

Emigration, not job creation is the cause of the recent drop in the live register figures, and claims of Galway Government TDs to the contrary is nothing but “PR and spin”.

Installing water meters in homes has “little to do with conservation and everything to do with privatisation,” a Galway protest group has warned the public this week.

Despite Galway city having the State’s third highest Household Tax compliance rate, anti-Household Tax candidates believe they can still “mount a serious challenge” at the next local elections.

The Campaign Against Home and Water Taxes group will field candidates in the 2014 Local Elections across Galway city and most areas of the county.

The Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins will address a public meeting in Galway on the implantation of and ways to resist the controversial property tax.