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It is almost 30 years since Fine Gael last won two seats in Galway West and the party has never come close to repeating that success in any election since those lofty days of the early 1980s.

Disrupting city council meetings is the only option left to get “straight answers to straightforward questions” following the “wall of silence” that has greeted allegations that clamps were removed for some councillors without a fine being paid.

It is not just Fianna Fáil that wants to make a comeback in Galway City West, Labour are also determined to regain a seat here in the 2009 Local Elections.

Eugene McGuinness has confirmed that he will run as an independent candidate in both the borough bouncil and county council Local Elections in June.

Tuam has increased its natural hinterland on the west and may have lost some wise councillors on the east. The change was a natural alignment on paper by bringing the East Galway regions of the Oranmore electoral ward into the Tuam ward, while adding to the hinterland of Ballinasloe town.

Three candidates have been selected by Fianna Fáil to contest the Local Elections this June in the Swinford electoral area in Mayo.

Joey O’Hanrahan’s County Council campaign in Thomastown was launched by Ireland East candidate for the European Parliament election, Senator John Paul Phelan

“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.

It’s beginning to get really exciting now as election fever takes over.

Fianna Fail has taken yet another knock in Kilkenny following the decision taken by a former Fianna Fail councillor to run as an independent candidate in the June elections.