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Noel Treacy remains the only Galway TD who has so far refused to give up his ministerial pension, despite public anger over TDs receiving such paymone of ents while still serving in the Dáil.

Insider has often commented on what he sees as the faults and failings (and occasionally virtues) of the individual city councillors, but it is time he turned his attention onto the 30 members of the Galway County Council.

The annual general meeting of Fianna Fáil Ógra Galway West will be held at the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, tomorrow (Friday) at 8pm.

Most Galway TDs own some property or land in Galway city or county, but unlike Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey, none of them owns property in France, Belgium, the USA, or Dubai.

The new Galway City Central ward is “ready made for a Martin Quinn comeback” according to the former mayor who is seeking to be a Fianna Fáil candidate in the next local elections.

Galway’s Fianna Fáil faithful are a bit pissed (No, there’s not another think-in today). We mean angry, and not at Brian Cowen’s fairly lacklustre performance as Taoiseach, or the health service, or the global financial crisis. No, the boys on the ground are annoyed at a new TD coming on board.

As is traditional nowadays, the various political parties converge on a chosen hotel at an appropriate venue prior to the recommencement of Dáil hostilities.

The parties will all tell you they’re shattered after the last two years – and to tell the truth so are many of the political journalists’ said one hack on radio recently when asked how the politicians can find it in them to justify their lengthy summer break!

A city adult counselling service has been allocated funding of €97,200.

The figures speak for themselves so let’s see what the figures actually said in the recent local elections to the Galway city and county councils.