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And they’re off! The 30th Dáil reached the end of its troubled life on Tuesday and the starting gun was fired on the race for the 31st Dáil. The various candidates will be calling to your door in the coming weeks and you will be bombarded with literature, promises, and pledges.

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.

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.

Following the unprecedented success of the Galway Science and Technoloogy Festival, where over 20,000 attended the festival exhibition held at NUI Galway, the festival committee are now considering expanding the exhibition to a two-day event.

More than one third of patients currently treated at University Hospital Galway could be cared for instead at Portiuncula and Roscommon hospitals, according to the HSE.

Galway East used to be the most boring of all constituencies, returning two Fianna Fáil and two Fine Gael, without fail, at every election, but things look set to be very different in 2011.

Uncovering the fun side of science through “hands-on learning” initiatives has now been proven to translate into young people going on to third level science and technology – the graduates who will sustain and enhance future economic growth.

Only a systemic and forensic investigation will guarantee that the State can get to the bottom of what happened at Anglo Irish Bank.

An east Galway Fianna Fail TD moved this week to reassure people about the future of Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe.