The roots of the tension between the parties in City Hall

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

The first meetings of the new Galway City Council have been marked by tension and sniping between Fianna Fáil members and their counterparts in the ruling group of Fine Gael, Labour, and centre-right Independents.

Scotland’s independence vote will affect us

Thu, Sep 11, 2014

With the schools back, the evenings longer, and summer giving way to autumn, focus is switching to the resumption of the Dáil and to what the political environment will be like over the coming months. Are we facing a winter of discontent or are the dark skies starting to give way to brighter days?

Galway to ban the election poster?

Tue, Sep 02, 2014

Airbrushed and grinning politicians beaming benevolently from election posters, stuck to every available lamp-post in the city, may about to be banned, but only if the politicians themselves vote for it.

As FG/Labour support falls, is re-election plausible?

Thu, Jul 10, 2014

Last Friday saw much fanfare in the USA, and among Irish-based Americans, for the Independence Day celebrations, but in Ireland a dominant theme of political discourse - even close to two months after the local the European elections - is more of Independents’ Day.

TALKING POLITICS: Cometh the hour, cometh the man?

Thu, Jul 03, 2014

Galway political anoraks will not have failed to notice how Fianna Fáil councillor Ollie Crowe has taken over from his brother, Cllr Michael J, as the ‘Face of the party in the city’, these last three years.

Why Joan Burton is the best choice for Labour leader

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

Insider is, this week, looking at the contest for the Labour leadership, from a Labour perspective, in the aftermath of what was a disastrous election for the party in which it lost three seats on the Galway City Council.

Sinn Féin & The Noel Grealish Party

Mon, Jun 16, 2014

A senator and a Galway County Council seat in Connemara; three council seats in the city; and a councillor for Oranmore Athenry, and all for Sinn Féin, while Labour is on the ropes, bruised, battered, and both eyes blackened.

Sinn Féin demands City Hall slash property tax rate

Mon, Jun 16, 2014

A motion to slash the controversial property tax by 15 per cent will be put forward by Sinn Féin councillors at this afternoon’s Galway City Council meeting.

‘I will serve my full five years’ - Cameron

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

“Absolute crap, absolute rubbish” is how Labour councillor Billy Cameron has described Fianna Fáil accusations that he has no intention of serving his full five-year term on Galway City Council.

‘And you can quote me on that’

Thu, May 29, 2014

“I have a degree and a masters and yet I’m unemployed. My generation is the lost generation. In me, voters saw someone who has stayed and can give the perspective of that generation in City Hall, and the perspective of my generation is needed.”

The 24-year-old Sinn Féin councillor Máiréad Farrell speaking after her election on Saturday.

Election analysis - All change and no change in city’s 2014 vote

Mon, May 26, 2014

Galway will never have seen a city council like the one that gathers in June for the first meeting in City Hall after the Local Elections, and yet, from a certian point of view, it will be a council that is strangely familiar.

City Hall needs a younger generation’s perspective

Sun, May 25, 2014

The first Sinn Féin candidate to be elected in Galway city in 10 years is also, at 24, the youngest candidate to be elected to the Galway City Council. “My generation is the lost generation,” she says.

Can Sheridan and Marley take a seat each in Central?

Sun, May 25, 2014

Can the Green's Sheamus Sheridan and Sinn Féin's Anna Marley take the last two seats in Galway City Central, capitalising on the collapse of Padraig Conneely's vote and the modest performance of Nicola Deacy?

Galway City West - the complete results

Sun, May 25, 2014

Returning officer Gary McMahon declared Niall McNelis and Pearce Flannery elected having exceeded the quota and Cathal Ó Conchúir and Peter Keane elected, not having reached the quota.

‘I don’t set out to court favour - I’m a straight talker’

Sun, May 25, 2014

The decline of family run businesses in Galway city, the housing crisis, and the less women elected to Galway City Council than in the last Local Election; for Independent councillor Catherine Connolly there is a lot to be concerned about.

‘Fianna Fáil are still in the sin bin’ - Ollie Crowe

Sun, May 25, 2014

Ollie Crowe has conceded that Fianna Fáil will only be coming back with three seats in the new Galway City Council, the same number the party had at the start of this election campaign.

‘We need a progressive alliance in City Hall’ - Marley

Sun, May 25, 2014

Sinn Féin’s new councillor for Galway City Central, Anna Marley, is determined to build a ‘progressive alliance’ so the new council is one where Left-wing values are heard, not ignored.

‘It wasn’t pretty, but we did it’ - Brian Walsh

Sun, May 25, 2014

“The people are angry and the top level of the party will have to accept the verdict of the people and listen to the message they are sending out.”

'When you're elected, you put the people first'

Sat, May 24, 2014

"I hope that everybody elected to City Hall has both the city and their ward at the heart of all they do, when you're elected you're elected by the people and you put them first."

Galway City East Count - the complete results

Sat, May 24, 2014

Returning Officer Gary McMahon deemed Noel Larkin and John Walsh elected without reaching the quota.

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