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At the height of our artificially inflated economic boom, or Celtic Tiger, the owners of a prominent builders’ suppliers told a friend of mine that although the year was not yet over they were ‘amazed at the phenomenal amount of Jacuzzis’ they were selling.

The Green Party in Mayo have never really made a dent when the votes have been counted up in general elections in the past; going back over the past five general elections in the county the party have been able to muster a total of just 3,082 first preference votes - the single best performance by a candidate for the party in those elections came back in 1997 when Ann Crowley got 938 number ones or 1.5 per cent of the total.

Sitting Roscommon-Galway TD Eugene Murphy has expressed his "surprise" that NUI Galway graduate and Roscommon county councillor Orla Leyden has been added to the Fianna Fail ticket for Roscommon-Galway at the February 8 General Election.