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Greetings Grassroots fans, by now you’ve either voted or are about to vote in the Local and European elections. Good luck to you, it’s sooo hard to pick your top five from the exceptional field of candidates.

Councillors’ expenses during the local election campaign this year have been published revealing that money does not mean a seat for many councillors.

In the election count of 1991, three new bright councillors were elected onto Galway County Council. They beamed with pride as they marched into their first council meeting at the old Council chamber in the former County Buildings.

The reduction in capital income from car tax, following the introduction of new car tax brackets, will have a negative impact on the funds for road maintenance according to Environment Minister John Gormley.

Missing out by just 14 votes in 2004 made Eileen Mannion something of a pessimist at the count centre at the weekend. Although the tallies showed that she was well placed to take a seat in Connemara, she wasn't counting any chickens until it was confirmed, as a direct result of her experience last time.

Now that most of the posters are gone and the rest are being taken down in record time, what passes for normal life has resumed in Kilkenny.

It was a nail biting election for candidates over Sunday and Monday as the Euro election hopefuls waited to hear their fate.

Local business suffering as a result of the recession will have to suffer on, following the defeat of a motion in the Dail recently that would have seen a lifeline of sorts thrown to struggling small businesses.

With a record six seats up for grabs in the Piltown Electoral Area and two sitting Fine Gael councillors having declared themselves out of the race from an early date, the seats in this area were all to play for.

With just four seats in what has been traditionally a five seater area, there was always going to be a fall out in Thomastown.