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Galway East candidate Cllr Donagh Killilea has clarified the Fianna Fail policy on pensions following what he said was confusion at the doorsteps about what will happen if the party are elected to government.

Sitting Fianna Fáil TD’s, party deputy leader Dara Calleary and Brexit spokesperson Lisa Chambers handed in their nomination papers for the upcoming general election today (Monday, January 20).

Senator Michelle Mulherin has welcomed the news that consultants have been appointed by Mayo County Council for the development of Ballina's Digital Hub in the town's former military barracks.

Mayo Sinn Féin Senator Rose Conway-Walsh has welcomed the calling of the General Election for Saturday, February 8, saying now is the time for Mayo people to vote for the change that’s needed to give workers and families a break in the county.

On December 7 1922, Pádraic Ó Máille TD and his friend Sean Hales TD of Cork, walked out of a hotel on Ormonde Quay, by Dublin’s river Liffy. They just had lunch, and were on their way back to the Dáil in Leinster House, a short drive away. Ó Máille, Galway city and Connemara’s first TD, had been appointed Leas Ceann Comhairle (deputy speaker). As they reached their car a gunman stepped forward and opened fire. Both men were hit, but Hales was bleeding profusely. Although seriously injured Ó Máille managed to get Hales into the car and drove to the nearest hospital, where he collapsed, and died.

Unlike the men executed after the 1916 Rising, there was little of the same idealisation given to the hundreds of men and women who died in the War of Independence, or, more emphatically, those executed during the regretable Civil War.

Senator Michelle Mulherin has challenged Irish Water to come clean on its plans for its Ballina Waste Water Treatment plant at Belleek amid concerns in the town that there are moves underway to develop the site as a sludge hub for Mayo.

Former tánaiste Michael McDowell recently described the European elections as a mad dash where household names strive to become household names. There is more than an element of truth to this; high profile politicians such as Gerry Collins, Jim Higgins, and Brian Hayes went largely off the radar after relocating to Brussels.

Property prices in Westmeath have risen by €11,000 in the last year, according to the latest MyHome.ie Property Report in association with Davy.

Mayo Fine Gael Senator Michelle Mulherin is seeking a meeting with the IDA in her campaign to have an advanced technology building provided in Ballina to attract foreign direct investment into North and East Mayo.