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It has been a strange week in Galway. The sun set on the Higginsian era. The sun rose on The Connolean Era. We lose one mainstay of our public representation over the past three decades, and welcome back one who has shaped the city for the past four. How fortunate are we, as a nation, to be able to replace one president with another and ensure that both destinations — the Áras and the city by the Corrib — are equally enriched for the exchange.

The constituency of Galway West must be central to a Fianna Fáil internal double review on its disastrous presidential campaign, and how it ran last November’s general election.

President Catherine Connolly has signed the oath of the President at a ceremony in Dublin Castle, officially becoming the 10th President of Ireland.

Mayor Mike Cubbard claims someone with access to his wife’s family’s private housing files leaked them to a national newspaper in an unsuccessful attempt to smear him.

Tradition dies hard in Galway. On a rain-swept weekend that saw the familiar swirl of a Macnas parade, another proud Galway ritual unfolded — the election of one of its own to Áras an Uachtaráin. On November 11, Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated as Ireland’s tenth President, the second Galway-based person in succession to hold that office. As she steps into her new role, President Michael D. Higgins and Sabina return to the west — welcomed back into the community that launched his political and cultural journey. It is a fitting circle: Galway gives, Galway welcomes back, and Galway once again finds itself at the heart of Ireland’s political life.

The absence of Fianna Fáíl politicians at the Galway West count centre in Salthill was unsurprising last Saturday, but one party member made it his business to attend.

Councillor Helen Ogbu has congratulated Catherine Connolly on her election, describing it as “a new dawn for an Ireland rooted in unity, inclusivity, and shared purpose”.

Former City Councillor, Niall Murphy, has declared his intention to run in the Galway West by-election for the Green Party. Having served Galway City West from 2020 to 2024, he is now going to have a run for the Da?il seat vacated by president elect Catherine Connolly.

As it unfolded that Catherine Connolly would walk the presidential election, politicos began plotting for a Galway West by-election which must fill her vacant Dáil seat by May 11.

Galway City Council has land for housing, demand for housing, but there is no Government plan to build on scale, a former Mayor of Galway City has claimed.