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The Galway West TD’s staff say they are pleasantly surprised that sales of t-shirts and sweatshirts with the Connolly campaign’s eye-catching design are completely sold out in all sizes, but they are hurriedly restocking.

Around 60 marchers listened to speeches by the playground of Fr Burke Park in the Claddagh, before parading through town to Prospect Hill, behind Irish, Ivory Coast and Offaly flags, shepherded by a heavy Garda presence.

As part of her national campaign tour, MEP Liadh Ní Riada paid a visit to Athlone on Monday of this week. Owing to the nature of the national tour, her stopover in Athlone, albeit brief, was a positive one.

Famously, USA Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, is no fan of anything originating from Mexico. We in Ireland, however, feel differently about this. Mexican food, one of the biggest food trends of the last decade, shows no signs of slowing down here just yet. Just a few short years ago we got what passes for Mexican food from a yellow box in the supermarket. The finished product often appeared to have already been eaten by someone else. If you attempted to make your own, shopping for chili peppers was an adventure, avocados were an oddity and tortillas were totally out of the question. Latin-American foods such as nachos, chips and salsa, fajitas, quesadillas, burritos and beans are now an everyday sight on the dinner tables of Ireland and have become as common place as bacon and cabbage.