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County Galway is normally an unhappy hunting ground for Independents seeking election to Dáil Éireann, but that could all change on February 25?

Fidelma Healy Eames is glad that she wasn’t elected a TD in 2002.

Despite not contesting the recent Fine Gael Galway West election selection convention, councillor Sean Kyne and Seosamh Ó Laoi are likely to find themselves on the party ticket in 2011.

The State’s finances are in a bad state and the incoming government after the 2011 General Election will have its work cut out trying to maintain even the most basic of public services like education, health care, and social housing.

A fiercely contested battle for the right to represent Fine Gael in Galway West, where even the sitting TD and senator cannot take their nomination for granted, is expected at the party convention this weekend.

At a time when there is hardly any certainly in our political system, we can bank on one near certainty. Enda Kenny will be the next Taoiseach.

With support for Fianna Fáil in freefall and the party desperately clinging to its two seats in Galway West, the time is right for Fine Gael to land the killer blow and become the biggest party in the constituency.

Fine Gael will hold its Galway West General Election Selection Convention next month, possibly in Salthill, with the most likely date being Sunday November 21.

The Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin told The Last Word on Today FM on Monday that Fianna Fáil is not preparing for an election. However Fine Gael is.

Galway athletes enjoyed considerable success at recent events with the west’s talented youngsters taking centre stage.