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An official code of conduct for city councillors, the breaching of which would leave them open to a new public complaints procedure, is needed if there is to be openness and accountability in City Hall.

The Galway City Council should support the creation of local jobs through a new Rate Increment Scheme, which would allow new start-up businesses to pay discounted rates during their start-up phase.

The outcome and the aftermath of tomorrow’s Local Election in Galway city will be determined by the performance of Fianna Fáil, for that will impact directly on how Labour and Fine Gael do.

The biggest ward in the city could prove to be the most dramatic. The battle for the final seat is likely to be a showdown betweenLabour, which needs this seat to become the largest party in City Hall, and Fianna Fáil.

As we near the crucial day, the people of Galway have a decision to make. Do they continue to support the old established parties or do they on this occasion have faith in the Independent community candidates?

“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better,” so said Wendell Phillips, the 19th century American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, lawyer, and writer.

The Local Elections are over, bring on the General Election! There is never a time when politicians and political anoraks are not thinking about elections and Saturday’s results will be read as an indication of what lies ahead in 2012.

A personal, sideways, view of our new city councillors, who took their seats in City Hall on Monday.

A personal, sideways, view of our new city councillors, who took their seats in City Hall on Monday.

In 2001, the Republic of Ireland played Holland in a do or die World Cup football match at Lansdowne Road.