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The 2009 Local Election is little more than three months away and Fianna Fáil in Galway is in disarray.

The PDs may be about to be swallowed up into the bowels of Fianna Fáil, but if this happens, they will guarantee the Soldiers of Destiny the right to control the Galway County Council after the 2009 Local Elections.

The former coalminers of Castlecomer, under the auspicies of The National Coal Miners Group (NMG), have called for the establishment of a compensation tribunal for persons who have suffered injury as a result of their exposure to coal dust particles in the course of their work as coal miners.

Fianna Fáil has confirmed that it will run five candidates in the seven seat Connemara ward in June’s Local Elections.

“If I saw Mr Haughey buried at midnight at a crossroads with a stake driven through his heart, politically speaking, I should continue to wear a clove of garlic around my neck, just in case.”

“Almost...but not quite” is how Galway Fianna Fáil might sum up its team for June’s Local Elections in both the city and county, with many candidates virtually certain to be selected, others still battling for a place, and the rest in the dark as to what party HQ intends to do with them.

What is Fianna Fáil doing in Connemara? The fortress of Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív is grinding slowly, very slowly, to making a decision regarding the team that will contest the Local Elections on June 5.

For these local elections Fianna Fáil launched a new system of selection designed to ensure transparency, fairness, and an end to sitting councillors selecting below par running mates.

With just over seven weeks to go until polling day the line-ups for the Local Elections in Connemara have begun to take their final shape.

Missing out by just 14 votes in 2004 made Eileen Mannion something of a pessimist at the count centre at the weekend. Although the tallies showed that she was well placed to take a seat in Connemara, she wasn't counting any chickens until it was confirmed, as a direct result of her experience last time.