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The controversial new one-way road system in Oranmore is to be reviewed by the Galway County Council, only a week after being installed.

Three new councillors received a joyous welcome at County Hall on Friday as they filled vacancies left by successful Dáil candidates.

The election is over! Bring on the next one! After the marathon counts in Galway East and Galway West, there cannot be many people who want another election too soon.

If there was ever a constituency which defined the term ‘boringly predictable’ it was certainly Galway East, a place even more beholden to repeating patterns and traditions than its sister electoral area Galway West.

Galway East used to be the most boring of all constituencies, returning two Fianna Fáil and two Fine Gael, without fail, at every election, but things look set to be very different in 2011.

Paul Connaughton, one of Co Galway’s longest serving TDs, will bring down the curtain on a political career of more than 30 years, when he retires at the next election.

The post of Galway city manager could be abolished while the powers of the Tuam, Loughrea and Ballinasloe town councils could be greatly reduced if the recommendations of a new report are implemented fully.

By opposing both investigations into planning practices in Galway and the regulation of quarries, Fine Gael has learned “nothing from the excesses of the Celtic Tiger era”.

Galway County Council is to receive further funding of more than €900,000 which will be used to implement flooding mitigation measures, studies, and to address localised flooding problems.

A Galway county councillor has hit out at Government plans to introduce a Social Housing Leasing Iniative which has been described as “grossly unfair”.