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All four Galway West TDs were in Dublin Castle on Tuesday night to celebrate their former constituency colleague’s elevation to the presidency, plus at least one county councillor who aspires to take her seat.

Strongly linked to episodes of psychosis and hospitalisation, the Government’s ban on Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), a semi-synthetic cannabinoid, has been warmly welcomed in Galway.

With the race to the Áras beginning to heat up, tempers flared during Monday's July Plenary Meeting of Galway County Council as local Fine Gael representatives announced they would only support their party's pick for president.

The Fianna Fail 1916 Easter Commemorations will take place on Sunday next, with the annual Mass at St Patrick’s Church, Forster Street at 11am, followed by a parade and wreath laying at the Liam Mellows statue in Eyre Square.

The political landscape of Galway County Council has undergone significant change with the co-option of new councillors and the nomination of a new Cathaoirleach following the election of Louis O'Hara (SF), Pete Roche (FG), and former Cathaoirleach Albert Dolan (FF) to the Irish Dáil.

The Galway Traveller Movement has called on Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin to reverse his party’s decision to propose former councillor Michael Crowe to return to Galway City Council.

Fianna Fail General Election candidate for Galway East, Councillor Albert Dolan, has called for greater investment in road safety measures and a wider roll out of the Safe Routes to School Scheme, to limit the speed of traffic travelling through rural villages in East Galway.

The Fianna Fail General Election candidate for Galway West, Grainne Seoige, is pushing for a dedicated government department for the Gaeltacht in the next Dail Term.

There was always an element of rock-stardom about the Galway West constituency. Home to some of the biggest hitters in Irish politics over many decades, the election count always attracted a certain amount of national interest. Something for the national hacks to get their teeth into.

Fianna Fáil’s Josie Forde, a first-time candidate and the party’s only female runner in Galway, is one of six new councillors who survived the field of 52 runners on a day when her party lost its position as the largest on the local authority, going down from five to four seats. Her 665 first preferences got her in on the 14th count.