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A mixture of familiar faces, dynasties, and at least one new name characterise the make up of Fine Gael’s 2014 Local Election ticket for Galway city.

Fianna Fáil’s Éamon Ó Cuív is the most active Galway politician on the internet according to a new website created by an NUI, Galway student.

Say something often enough and it will come true. At every election Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey has made dire predictions about his political health and warned he is in danger of losing his seat.

The Galway West candidates will be quizzed on their arts and culture policies at the first election hustings to be held by arts workers to be held in Galway.

By the beginning of March, when the dust has settled on what promises to be a momentous general election, County Galway will have at least one female TD.

A TNS mrbi poll of the Galway West constituency, commissioned by Fianna Fáil, will make uneasy reading for the party as it shows it’s second seat is in danger.

Now that the back slapping is over and political kudos have been gained by politicians across the board for a most courageous, progressive, budget in recessionary times maybe it is appropriate at this stage to ask some pertinent questions as to the political intricacies of its birth, formulation, and delivery.

The American columnist Franklin P Adams wrote in 1944 that: “Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”

An interesting week it has been. Kilkenny politics has taken a turn as Biffo waved his recession wand over the Marble City by casting to the back benches one of the only men capable of directing the Government out of the crisis they have gotten us in.

Ballina Town Council, like its counterparts, will be very difficult to call.