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After a 30 year career in national politics and as the Dáil TD for Galway East, Fianna Fáil’s Noel Treacy this week announced his retirement from politics.

Former EU commissioner Pádraig Flynn will deliver a lecture entitled EU Policy Entrepreneurship – How EU Disability Policy Was Made and The Lessons For The Lifecourse, at NUI Galway on Wednesday September 22.

The funeral of the young man killed in a single vehicle crash on the Dunmore to Glenamaddy Road earlier this week is to take place today.

Fine Gael leader Dep Enda Kenny this week expressed his concern that Castlebar could be hit with further job losses. The potential job losses, according to the TD, could occur at the Volex facility on the Breaffy Road in Castlebar. Dep Kenny believes that up to 14 jobs could be at risk in the company whose main business is the manufacture of cable assembly systems for various companies.

With Paddy Power offering odds on Éamon Ó Cuív becoming Ceann Comhairle and Pádraic McCormack a dark horse possibility, it’s easy to forget another big political job could also be heading to a Galwegian.