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The Fine Gael General Election selection convention will take place on Sunday December 5 in the TF Royal Theatre, Castlebar.

“What if the IMF comes in?” You’ll hear that spoken with trepidation everywhere you go. The fact is the IMF is in – with the EU – and is producing next month’s budget that will make you and me pay for the crisis.

Councillor Michelle Mulherin received a unanimous thumbs up this week at a meeting of Ballina Fine Gael district executive to be the Fine Gael candidate from Ballina in the next general election. The district executive, which comprises party membership throughout the Ballina Electoral Area, nominated Cllr Mulherin to contest the party’s general election selection convention which will take place on December 5 next at TF Royal, Castlebar. The party will select its team to contest the next general election for the Mayo constituency on the day.

As part of the 'Winning the West' campaign in the north and west, the Labour Party is organising a one-day conference in Mayo this weekend.

Mary White, Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, has supported Minister John Gormley’s call for national consensus on the public finances for the next four years.

To the backdrop of at least one new convert within the Westmeath party ranks, Richard Bruton’s challenge to Enda Kenny’s leadership of Fine Gael proved unsuccessful yesterday [Thursday] evening.

Enda Kenny has the support of the “vast majority” of Galway Fine Gaelers as party grassroots in the county want to see him continue as leader and become the first west of Ireland Taoiseach.

More than 1,000 delegates will attend the Labour Party’s 2010 National Conference which will be held in the Baily Allen Hall, NUI, Galway, from Friday April 16 to Sunday 18.

Fine Gael councillor Noreen Heston has resigned from Mayo VEC in order to focus on her work with local residents in the town. In her resignation letter she stressed that she wanted to concentrate on “my core responsibilities as a member of Castlebar Town Council and, especially, my work with residents’ associations”.

One Mayo man who can’t be accused of being afraid of hard work is Dara Calleary. He is certainly going to be put to the test now.