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Labour’s Galway West candidate, councillor Derek Nolan, will formally kick off his general election campaign tomorrow at 8pm in the Menlo Park Hotel.

Two Galway East general election candidates will hold the official launches of their election campaigns over the coming week.

It is time for councillors to do the right thing and undo the “reckless, negligent and thoughtless re-zonings” they voted for in the Galway City Development Plan.

The leader of The Labour Party Eamon Gilmore will visit Galway tomorrow to support the General Election campaigns of the party’s three candidates in the county.

Labour has chosen its candidates for Galway East and Galway West, but there is a strong likelihood that they could be joined by new running mates over the coming weeks.

Galway West is normally the most predictable and uneventful constituency in the State. For the past 25 years it has returned two Fianna Fáil, one Fine Gael, one Labour, and one PD without fail, and indeed not many of the faces have even changed.

Derek Nolan’s biggest challenge awaits him in the New Year - winning and retaining the party’s Galway West seat at the next General Election, which has been held by Michael D Higgins since 1987.

“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.

Fianna Fáil will struggle to hold two seats in Galway West at the next General Election, while Fine Gael is confident it can win two. Labour though has no intention of letting the ‘big two’ have things all their own way.

Labour is determined that the next election will result in a significant electoral breakthrough and the west of Ireland is key to that plan.