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The Fianna Fáíl faithful will meet in Salthill this weekend to select their candidate for the Galway West by-election.

Behind bolted doors last week, there was a closely fought selection convention for Sinn Féin to chose its candidate for the Galway West by-election in May.

Former Fianna Fáil election hopeful Gráinne Seoige has issued a statement criticising politically motivated commentary of her candidacy in last year’s general election, and outlined the trauma fake pornography caused to her.

All four Galway West TDs were in Dublin Castle on Tuesday night to celebrate their former constituency colleague’s elevation to the presidency, plus at least one county councillor who aspires to take her seat.

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.

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.

Fianna Fáil veteran Éamon Ó Cuív has blasted Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s decision to back a presidential candidate from outside party ranks, while a city councillor revealed growing demand for internal party reform.

Men in dark clothing with torches were banging and roaring at the windows and doors of Noel and Lorraine Thomas’ rural home in Gortachalla exactly one year ago.

Since his election to the Dáil on Sunday, speculation is rife as to who might replace John Connolly TD on the Galway City Council.

We concur, but don’t forget Grealish, with his stronghold centred on ‘Greater Carnmore’ (population 9,000), was elected on the eighth count in 2020, alongside Mairéad Farrell (SF) and Ó Cuív, after eliminated Labour, Independent, Green Party and Fianna Fáil candidates' votes were distributed between the top three.