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City budget meetings are either boring or fractious, but this one was a political masterclass.

The city’s aldermen and councillors: resplendent, ready, primed for their solemn, septennial duty to protect us from scallywags and scoundrels seeking to squat in Phoenix Park.

Galway city councillors expressed tetchiness on Monday afternoon when none of the seven candidates seeking their support arrived on time for their presidential nomination hearings.

Disgraced whiskey distiller Conor McGregor is the most high-profile name seeking a five-minute audience with Galway’s city’s 18 councillors on Monday, September 15, alongside nine other presidential hopefuls at time of going to press.

In their first meeting on Monday, after the summer break, the city’s representatives briefly discussed the city’s most oaty issue in what the Galway Advertiser calculates is the 15th plenary meeting in a row where the breakfast ingredient has been mentioned.

Following that meeting on Monday, and an early morning tour of the new Mervue HQ for journalists, nearly all councillors voted to approve an historic €60 million, 30-year loan at their July plenary meeting. This will pay for some of the fit-out of Crown Square, but there will be plenty left over for other capital projects.

There was widespread condemnation amongst city councillors at their June meeting this week when officials revealed plans to raise €1m for the city by increasing rents by 3 per cent.

A trade union representing city council staff has called for a public vote to assess Galwegians’ opinions on moving City Hall from College Road to Mervue.

Galway City Council has invited representatives of the Galway Culture Company to attend a full council meeting to explain its activities to councillors since Galway won the European city of Culture competition in 2020.

Grainne Seoige’s celebrity drew attention to the Galway West constituency last week, but it was Mairéad Farrell, Catherine Connolly and Hildegarde Naughton who stole the show.