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There is a growing movement - or, more accurately, a growing feeling - that the day of the election poster is coming to an end.

The HSE West has rejected an allegation by City Mayor Padraig Conneely that University Hospital Galway’s A&E department is a “ hellhole”.

The 2004 Local Elections heralded sweeping changes on the Galway City Council - eight new faces, two new parties in Sinn Fein and the Greens, and a new alliance to control the election of Mayor.

Galway City Central is not called ‘the Group of Death’ for nothing and in recent times there have been predictions that Fianna Fáil councillor John Connolly could lose his seat. However is that view starting to change?

City Mayor Cllr Padraig Conneely - who claims he was “ordered out” of University Hospital Galway A&E department recently and who walked out of the HSE’s regional health forum west meeting this week “in protest” over comments made by a senior health official - has vowed to continue being the “voice of the voiceless”.

Mayo General Hospital’s budget for 2009 has overrun by €1.9 million during the first few months of the year. The budget for 2009 stands at €82.9 million, a cut of €2.6 million on 2008, but the hospital is struggling to make the savings.

Football and politics are inextricably linked. World Cup qualifiers played a role in the 1969 Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras.

Galway City Central is the only ward where no change is likely. The real question here - and the main focus of interest - is which Fianna Fáiler will keep the seat for the party? Cllr John Connolly or Ollie Crowe?

A scheme which provides financial help to parents of school going children is in jeopardy due to a staff shortage locally, a former mayor and city councillor has claimed.

In light of the damning documents released to TG4 news in relation to the cryptosporidium outbreak in Galway city in 2007, the director of services for Water Services in Galway City Council should “consider his position”, says Councillor Padraig Conneely.