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Roads surfaces in three small towns in north Galway are in a “shocking condition” according to local county councillor, Paul Connaughton Jnr.

Insider has often commented on what he sees as the faults and failings (and occasionally virtues) of the individual city councillors, but it is time he turned his attention onto the 30 members of the Galway County Council.

Loughrea has been shortlisted for a new sustainable travel initiative which will see €5 million awarded to one town for the development of sustainable transport infrastructure.

Councillors abilities to go off on junkets or make claims for conferences they may not have attended will be limited under new regulations.

The refurbished emergency department and special care baby unit at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe will be officially re-opened tomorrow (Friday) at 12 noon by the Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney.

Cllr Sinead Connaughton will not be seeking re-election to the Galway County Council next year, she announced this week.

Republican Sinn Féin will hold a table quiz to support Tomás Ó Curraoin’s local election campaign next summer.

On Monday The Green Party unveiled its election team for the 2009 local elections - the first political party in Galway to do so. However the party look unlikely to make any increase on the one seat it secured in 2004.

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.

Nigerians Paul Osikoya and Tokie Lotan broke new ground in Galway politics when they became the first non-nationals to run for elections to the Galway City Council in 2004.