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Anyone reading architect Roddy Mannion’s new book, Galway - A Sense of Place (Liffey Press), is in for a treat. They will be amazed at the breadth of social history covered in it. While the book also acknowledges the physical/geographic place Galway City assumes in terms of Ireland’s history of urban/city development.

It’s not de-zoning, it’s not re-zoning, it’s just prioritising - and the council is not obliged to take responsibility for any losses landowners suffered if they made plans because their land was zoned.

It has taken the full impact of the Mahon Report to bring home to many Galway Fianna Fáil members that it is likely to remain a minority party for a long time to come.

It has taken the full impact of the Mahon Report to bring home to many Galway Fianna Fáil members that it is likely to remain a minority party for a long time to come.

Fianna Fail in government was corrupt. Previous findings against former Taoiseach Charles Haughey have now also been applied to other party members, specifically our own Castlebar native and ex-government minister and EU commissioner, Padraig Flynn, while ex-taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been found to have been “untruthful” relating to his financial affairs.

The Mahon Report, which was finally published yesterday 15 years after the Mahon Tribunal was established, has produced a number of damning conclusions against Pádraig Flynn.

Two of Westmeath’s most famous musicians, Foster and Allen, are to appeal a High Court judgement handed down this week (November 22) after the unsuccessfully defended demands from the Revenue Commissioners totalling €6.33 million, despite the judge sympathising with the duo over their being defrauded by disgraced accountant Patrick Russell.

A case against one of the partners in musical duo Foster and Allen for not filing tax returns was dismissed in the District Court this week (March 24) after a judge accepted the letter of compliance Mr Tony Allen received from his accountant Paddy Russell on Revenue Commissioner-headed paper was “a forgery”.

Tony Allen, the second member of the county's most successful singing duet to face charges of not filing annual tax returns in time, got a brief reprieve in the District Court this week (June 10) to allow time for his controversial accountant to appear and explain why he didn't answer a summons issued by Allen's legal team.

Kilkenny Fianna Fail Deputy John McGuinness has laid down the gauntlet and called for an enquiry into banking in Ireland to take place sooner rather than later.