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With the New Year now firmly entrenched, Galway’s politicos - Insider included - have only one thing on their minds - June’s Local Elections.

Six out of the 15 Galway city councillors have received top marks for attendance at council meetings for 2008, but others have fared less well in figures released this week.

The Galway City Council has won a national LAMA Award for its Galway Coach Station and Webworks building, which it developed with McNamara Construction and Enterprise Ireland.

Councillors are set to demand that city manager Joe MacGrath resign as a member of The Commission for Taxi Regulations Advisory Council at the next Galway City Council meeting.

City manager Joe McGrath is set for a showdown with councillors next Monday over calls to rezone land at the Riverside Commercial Estate and the former Corrib Great Southern Hotel.

Galway taxi drivers will be hoping City Hall will implement most of their recommendations for new taxi ranks around the city when they meet with city manager Joe MacGrath next week.

As we head into St Valentine’s Day many of the city councillors will have their eye on two dates - February 14 and June 5.

“Better red than dead” the English philosopher Bertrand Russell used to say, and for the Labour Party - if the recent The Irish Times/TNS MRBI poll is anything to go by - the phrase has never been more apt.

Fine Gael is pushing to win a second seat in Galway City West and the party is looking towards Cllr Brian Walsh to bring in one of his two running mates.

Ballinfoyle is set to get its long awaited community centre, but there are concerns that the project could be put in jeopardy due to the economic downturn.