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It’s a terrible shock when the ‘recession’ changes from being the something you read about in the paper to a factor really affecting your life.

Galway’s business leaders have been invited to attend a business lunch and talk next week by Deputy Richard Bruton, TD, deputy leader Fine Gael and finance spokesperson.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny commented on the demise of local business due the financial crisis as he officially launched a Build A Bank project in St Gerald’s College, Castlebar last Friday.

It is, after years of coalition with the PDs, Independents and the Green Party, a party without an ideology. Good times robbed Fianna Fáil of its need to prioritise spending, projects, and resources, instead of governing with a plan or policies it just threw money at issues, groups, and troublemakers to keep everyone happy.

Fine Gael’s Deputy Michael Ring, spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs, has said the €35 million in savings brought about by the party’s Oireachtas reforms could be used for services like transport for hospital appointments, water and sewerage schemes, roads, etc. Dep Ring said the package included a reduction by eight of the number of junior ministers, cutting the number of joint Oireachtas committees by 10, ending the practice of paying fees to those holding positions on those committees, no ministerial pensions to be paid while the member is still serving in either house of the Oireachtas, direct elections for 20 of the Seanad seats, and extending the Dáil sitting week from three to four days.

The Ideas Campaign is a grassroots initiative that is asking ordinary people across Ireland to come up with extraordinary and exciting ideas to boost the economy.

Fine Gael European Election candidate for Ireland East Senator John Paul Phelan gave a rousing speech at the launch of his campaign for a seat in Europe on Monday night.

Fianna Fáil is privately admitting that the party has lost its North West EU seat, one of the few EU seats the party was certain it would be able to hold onto in the June elections.

Fianna Fáil has given a commitment to freeze commercial rates for the next three years in its local election manifesto Accountable & Effective Local Government, which was launched in Dublin by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen this week.

Tomorrow’s polling day marks the culmination of a three month campaign to fill our MEP and local council seats. By any standards it has been one of the dullest. Barely a proper insult traded.