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The personal library of the former Taoiseach, the late Charles J Haughey, was presented to the National Museum of Ireland this week to go on display in Turlough House.

The figures speak for themselves so let’s see what the figures actually said in the recent local elections to the Galway city and county councils.

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.

The recent decision by the High Court to dismiss two challenges against the Galway City Outer Bypass has been welcomed by Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey.

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.

Fine Gael’s high hopes of Castlebar dominance

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.”

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.

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.