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Fine Gael spokesperson on Enterprise in the Seanad, Senator John Paul Phelan has said that he has not ruled out running in the up-coming European elections following a request from sitting MEP Avril Doyle.

Tuam has increased its natural hinterland on the west and may have lost some wise councillors on the east. The change was a natural alignment on paper by bringing the East Galway regions of the Oranmore electoral ward into the Tuam ward, while adding to the hinterland of Ballinasloe town.

What they do in America, they sooner or later try here. The US presidential election some ‘town hall’ style debates between Barack Obama and John McCain - and now Fine Gael is going to try the format here.

Deputy Phil Hogan has tabled a Dáil motion calling for the implementation of a Fine Gael plan to reform the Oireachtas.

Not since 1982 and the heady early days of the Garret FitzGerald led Fine Gael-Labour coalition, has Fine Gael won two seats in Galway West, but could a ticket of Padraic McCormack, Padraig Conneely, and Fidelma Healy Eames next time out do it?

A national Progressive Democrats conference, at which the future of the party will be decided, is to take place in Mullingar this weekend.

Joey O’Hanrahan’s County Council campaign in Thomastown was launched by Ireland East candidate for the European Parliament election, Senator John Paul Phelan

Galway could become the centre for a new political party in Ireland, or at the very least, the location for a new political grouping comprising the Independent members of the Galway city and county councils.

While Fianna Fáil struggles to find candidates to run in Galway City West, the ‘auld enemy’ Fine Gael is having a similar problem in Galway City East.

Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Piltown electoral area, Peadar de Bluit has responded to the revelations that HSE executive Brendan Drumm lobbied Health Minister Mary Harney for massive pay rises to attract senior executives from the private sector the sums paid out were “grotesque and driven by greed”.