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Live coverage of the general election count in Castlebar 

Tomorrow is the day the people of Mayo go to the polls with 15 candidates vying for their number one votes and four seats up for grabs, while a smaller hamlet in the south of the county will be voting in the Galway West constituency.

Once the votes were counted up last time around and all was said and done, Fine Gael's Michelle Mulherin was the last one out and ended up losing the seat she had won as part of a Fine Gael wave that swept the country in 2011.

He's used to excelling on the football field, but for Alan Dillon, Saturday week will be a whole new ball game.

Much has been said over the years about what a positive impact Ireland West Airport has on the region — but now that impact has been quantified, with the revelation that it is feeding hundreds of thousands of visitors to the greater Galway region. On top of this, the airport opens this decade as a key driver of investment, located as it is on a 600-acre strategic development zone that is set to create thousands of jobs in the next ten years.

Insider has been in constant contact with people from all parties since the election was called in mid-January, and has never seen such uncertainty in the closing days of a campaign, so let’s look at the position of each party and Independents as we approach polling day.

It has been an ugly start to the New Year. As the first month draws to a close, we are not filled with the optimism that comes with the unfurling of the daffodil blooms; our hearts are not pumped with the warmth of the setting sun that stays with us just a little longer every day. The spring that should drag us out of the end in the morning is less taut, as the realities of the days ahead and past sit on our chests.

Longstanding activist, Kenny Tynan, who has campaigned on a number of pertinent issues, namely, human rights, access to medicinal cannabis and the abolition of water charges, has declared his intention to contest a seat in the forthcoming General Election as a People Before Profit candidate in the Roscommon/Galway constituency.

The decision taken by An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, to hold the forthcoming General Election on a Saturday as opposed to a weekday has been positively received by Athlone Institute of Technology Students Union President, Áine Daly.

An East Galway TD has welcomed confirmation that An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has asked Tim Cook that Apple would either develop its data centre site at Athenry or make it available to another investor.