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Local election candidate for Fine Gael Peter Burke is calling for a reform of local government and the stopping of wasteful spending on unelected quangos.

A Mullingar man chained himself to a van outside the Midlands Regional Hospital on Wednesday in protest that he can’t access disabled driving spaces.

There was high drama in Castlebar as night was turning into day when the fourth count of the Swinford area pulled Joe Mellett, the Cathaoirleach of the last term of the previous council, back from the death. From early in the afternoon when the first tallies were done it was looking like Mellett was going to lose out to Fianna Fáil's first time candidate Michael Smyth.

Total poll: 8,356

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With just four seats in what has been traditionally a five seater area, there was always going to be a fall out in Thomastown.

Kilkenny city bucked the national trend on several occasions over election weekend but no occasion was more obvious than the performance of Fianna Fail in the borough council election.

It was a night filled with anticipation in the mayoral Chambers at City Hall. People had an idea who might be mayor but it was not to be confirmed until the commencement of the meeting and official proceedings had began.

Cllr Mark Cooney was unanimously elected as mayor of Athlone at the Town Council’s AGM this week.

Since the re-establishment of the Galway Borough Council in 1937, very few women have been elected to the Galway City Council or Galway Corporation, as it was then known.