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"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."

Independents, female candidates, and Fianna Fáil stand poised as the main winners when the votes for the 2014 Local Elections in Galway city are counted this weekend; but Labour is fearful it could be reduced to just two councillors in City Hall.

With 24 hours to polling day Labour teeters on the brink of collapse, Fianna Fáil on the edge of recovery, and Sinn Féin and Independents ready to make significant electoral breakthroughs.

An internal investigation is taking place in City Hall over allegations that a Galway City Council official improperly allocated a house to a fellow council staff member.

With three weeks to go to polling, there is much to play for across each of the three Galway city electoral wards. Poster campaigns are now in full flow and candidates are falling over each other for the affections of voters on the doorsteps.

Despite Galway’s bid to become an UNESCO City of Film, the Galway City Council has slashed almost €4,000 from grants to local film organisations, a move which has been described as “outrageous”.

A ‘One Stop Shop’, to allow people get on the Supplemental Register of Electors and be able to vote on May 23, is being opened by the Galway City Council.

Funding to develop a 200 metre running track, along with training areas for the all the major sports codes, for the east side of the city is being sought.

Moves which could potentially have led to the privatisation of the Knocknacarra Community Centre have been halted. A chance now exists for locals to put forward ideas on how the centre can be run.

Pearce Flannery has slammed city councillors as “elitist and out of touch” and demanded a ban on election posters, despite being a local election candidate with numerous posters across Galway City West.