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The Lisbon Treaty referendum victory is a boost for Brian Cowen and Fianna Fáil nationally. In any match the captain, regardless of how well he played all season, is the recipient of the cup.

An opportunity to provide three new jobs in Mervue was dealt a blow this week when plans to rezone a site at the Mervue Shopping Centre were opposed over a technicality.

The Labour party president Deputy Michael D Higgins has called for the safe release of an Irish priest recently kidnapped in the Mindanao area of the Philippines.

Labour in Galway is urging the public to temporarily boycott Coca Cola products as a way of sending a message to the company over its handling of the situation in its Tuam plant.

Labour Party president Michael D Higgins has sharply criticised the Government’s proposed ‘business plan’ for the NAMA, saying he would not accept such a “document from a first-year university student”.

The dispute over the shedding of 130 Coca Cola jobs in Tuam has gone on “long enough” and it is “high time” that the Enterprise and Employment Minister Mary Coughlan intervened.

I was reminded of my long gone Junior Infant schooldays as I walked up the newly developed Parade during the week.

Michael Joe Lavelle, who died recently aged 79, was a loyal and dedicated member of the Westport branch of the Labour Party for over 55 years. He gave long and faithful service to the Labour Party and made a real and tangible contribution to the Irish labour movement, and he was elected Westport branch president for life in 2007.

Business must be encouraged and the vulnerable protected so it is vital the refuse waiver is retained and commercial rates and city parking charges are not increased next year.

Local Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy Eames has questioned why the Galway Fire Service, the only local emergency organisation “equipped to suck up and remove water”, was not fully engaged to deal with the recent flooding in east and south Galway.