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More than one in four people on the out-patient waiting list for Mayo General Hospital have been waiting more than a year for their appointment.

A non-partisan group which campaigns to get more women involved in politics is aiming to increase the number of female TDs in the county.

After a protracted enough process, Fianna Fáil has now settled its election ticket for Mayo.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny will officially open the new constituency office of John O'Mahony TD in Ballinrobe at 5.30pm on Monday evening.

Ten of the 40 new jobs announced this week by top sports retailer Elverys Intersport are to be based at the company's head office in Castlebar.

The plight of Mayo rail passengers often forced to stand during the long train journey to Dublin was described this week as unfair, unsafe and entirely unsatisfactory.

Hundreds of Galway homes cannot be sold because they are caught in a legal limbo arising from management companies going defunct and local authorities refusing to take over the estates.

Election 2016 is the first general election in the State where parties have to ensure 30 per cent of their candidates are female, or face financial penalties, and now a campaign group is calling on Galway women to put themselves forward for election to Dáil Éireann.

The Fianna Fáil party will hold their selection convention for the next general election this evening. Despite local members of the party voting for three person ticket for the next election in March, party headquarters has decided a two candiate approach is the bst one to take and they have split the county into two along the old Mayo West and Mayo East constituency boundries. 

The Government formed in the wake of the 2011 General Election was the first in 30 years to be without a TD from Galway West amongst its ministerial or junior ministerial ranks. Indeed, since the demotion of Ciarán Cannon in the 2014 reshuffle, neither Galway constituency – which between them had elected six government deputies in 2011 – has been represented at the top table of Irish politics.