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Local Fianna Fáil councillor Paddy Kiely’s recent gun toting comments have come under fire from top politicians this week.

For the second time in a little over a week a delegation of elected representatives from Mayo County Council made the long journey to Dublin to put forward the case for the county. This time the delegation were in Dublin to discuss the proposed new sewerage shceme for Belmullet town.

Is é seo leanas liosta na mbuaiteoirí ó chontae na Gaillimhe ag Oireachtas na Gaeilge a bhí ar siúl i gCorcaigh.

In 1951 Comhaltas Ceoltóiri Éireann was set up to promote traditional Irish music. The first Galway branch was formed about 1965 and initially they held a committee meeting every week. Then somebody suggested they have a session every week instead, and this they did, in Martin Forde’s Eagle Bar in William Street West. Mind you, the session could not start until Mrs Forde had finished watching The Fugitive on television. These sessions became hugely popular at a time when very few pubs in Galway allowed live traditional music.

A PART-TIME postman from Mullingar who raped and sexually assaulted a woman in her isolated rural home over an 11-year period in the 1980s and 1990s has lost, by a three to two majority, his Supreme Court appeal against conviction.

There has been cross-party support this week for the publication of the report of the Oireachtas sub-committee on Ireland’s future in the EU.

Deputy Phil Hogan has tabled a Dáil motion calling for the implementation of a Fine Gael plan to reform the Oireachtas.

Critical infrastructure and the allocation of social housing needs to be seriously addressed by government legislation. The putting in place of critical infrastructure for badly needed projects in Ireland and the processes involved in ensuring such projects become a reality needs to be radically overhauled and the whole timeframe needs to be dramatically speeded up and transformed.

“When you’re a mother and you’re used to minding the kids at home and doing the sums there, it prepares you for doing the sums and the other kinds of work as a councillor.”

A stark warning was delivered yesterday to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by Westmeath’s post-primary principals - the loss of 31 teaching positions and over €0.5 million of resourcing to Westmeath schools will have dire consequences for the future of the county’s children.