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This week, Insider is going to take a look at the number of first preference votes received in 2004 by candidates in the old West Ward and potentially what the outcome may be in the new Galway City Central ward in June for the sitting councillors, repeat candidates, and new candidates.

The 2004 Local Elections heralded sweeping changes on the Galway City Council - eight new faces, two new parties in Sinn Fein and the Greens, and a new alliance to control the election of Mayor.

This week Insider proposes to reflect on the plethora of so-called Independents who are campaigning for your vote on June 5. Many of these ‘new Independents’ are former members of the Progressive Democrats whose two remaining TDs - Dep Noel Grealish and Health Minister Mary Harney - continue to support one of the most incompetent governments in the history of the State.

Given the deservedly low opinion in which the public currently holds the incompetent trio of Cowen, Lenihan, and Coughlan, it’s no surprise canvassers are having doors slammed in their faces - even if they have nothing to do with Fianna Fáil!

Galway City Central is not called ‘the Group of Death’ for nothing and in recent times there have been predictions that Fianna Fáil councillor John Connolly could lose his seat. However is that view starting to change?

It makes more sense for gardaí on the street and visible in the community rather than waiting inside an office for people to report a crime according to Independent Galway City Central candidate Mike Geraghty.

“This is the way the world will end, not with a bang but with a whimper.” So concluded TS Eliot in his bleak, but powerful poem The Hollow Men.

Football and politics are inextricably linked. World Cup qualifiers played a role in the 1969 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras.

As we near the crucial day, the people of Galway have a decision to make. Do they continue to support the old established parties or do they on this occasion have faith in the Independent community candidates?

Galway City Central is the only ward where no change is likely. The real question here - and the main focus of interest - is which Fianna Fáiler will keep the seat for the party? Cllr John Connolly or Ollie Crowe?