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Whether there was a witch hunt out for him from the start or not, what he did was wrong and inexcusable.

While Enda Kenny swept the boards across the county as Fine Gael surged to picking up four seats in Mayo, there was also a shift in the power base of TDs in the county last weekend. For the first time in a number of years, Ballina has the largest number of TDs in the county. The election of both Fine Gael’s Michelle Mulherin and the return of Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary has seen Ballina overtake Castlebar in the number of TDs.

A Co Galway man who has been a campaigner for people with disabilities for more than 10 years and who will run as an independent candidate in the general election will launch his Dail campaign tonight (Thursday) at Munroe’s in Dominick Street at 8pm.

Independent candidate in Mayo, Councillor Michael Kilcoyne has stated that if elected in the forthcoming General Election one of his priorities will be to ensure that the rights of senior citizens are enshrined in law and breaches of these rights will carry severe personal penalties for those who infringe the rights of older people.

Enda Kenny has been kept in captivity by Fine Gael for too long and it is time the party gave him his freedom in order to fight the General Election.

A long time campaigner for better rights for people with disabilities is to run as an independent candidate in the Galway West constituency in the General Election.

A second independent candidate has declared for Galway West with the announcement by Mike Cubbard that he will be running in the 2011 General Election.

Labour has chosen its candidates for Galway East and Galway West, but there is a strong likelihood that they could be joined by new running mates over the coming weeks.

Former Mullingar town council candidate, Brian Fagan, is preparing to travel to Haiti on behalf of GOAL.

Betty Doran, the former Green and Labour Party councillor, has told the Mullingar Advertiser that her declaration of resignation from the Town Council may have been “in haste”.