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Tommy Fit but Cha is laid low

Two men have been charged in connection with the seizure of €250,000 worth of herbal cannabis in Oranmore earlier this week.

Fine Gael will keep its two seats, Fianna Fáil will lose one, and the Independents will take a seat, but do not rule out Labour causing an upset.

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.

Fianna Fáil has chosen its candidates for Galway West but uncertainty still surrounds what the party is doing about Galway East.

A Kiltimagh man was elected as the new chairman of The Mayo County Board on Tuesday night.

Westmeath County Council has put in place a plan for the winter maintenance of the county’s roads, and this was presented to the councillors at last Monday’s meeting.

After nearly 13 years of planning, design, and construction, the final stage of the €40 million Mullingar ring road, the unromantically titled western relief road, was opened to traffic on Tuesday afternoon.

Two plans adopted this week should lead to much safer driving around Athlone, after traffic calming for Glasson village and a newly designed junction for Two Mile/Cloghanboy were green-lighted by Westmeath County Council.

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.