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The Labour Party has selected John McDonagh as its Galway City Central candidate for this June’s local elections.

Local Fianna Fáil Councillor, Frankie Keena, has called on the Government to hold a referendum on Article 41.2 to change the Constitution in line with the recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on gender equality.

Insurance premiums for personal and business customers must be “slashed” and the Government “finally get a grip” on an industry which has “had its own way for far too long”.

There was a feisty and interesting exchange in the Dáil last week that caught the attention of the national media and woke some of the sleeping deputies in the unparliamentary surroundings of the convention centre.

With the Covid pandemic at its height, and in the absence of an all-Ireland strategy to suppress the virus, Labour's Niall McNelis has called for Covid checkpoints near the border.

These past few weeks have been a surreal experience for the people of this country. At times it almost feels like the stuff of fiction with, at one stage, Taoiseach Leo Varadkaar’s return to medical duties drawing comparisons with President Whitmore in that 1996 blockbuster Independence Day.

Next year the age at which a person qualifies for a state pension will increase to 67. Each year’s increase in the pension age costs a worker €12,911 a year. So, next year, the Irish state will save €25,822 for every worker in the country.

While voters in the Republic of Ireland go to the polls on February 8, it may be instructive for us to cast our minds back to December and the general election in Britain, as that contest contained a warning for the Irish Left that it would do well to heed.

The Castlebar Local Electoral Area is the most crowded of all the areas for today's election with 17 candidates looking for the seven seats up for grabs.

Fifty candidates are competing for 18 seats across the city's three electoral wards, but in reality, only half that number can truly be considered contenders. While the city is not expected to make sweeping changes to the make-up of its local government representation, some new faces are likely to feature when the new council meets in June.