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Fine Gael continues its spot of gravedigging as its general secretary Tom Curran is to meet Galway city councillor Donal Lyons this week in a bid to convince the Knocknacarra based representative to join the party.

Industrial action was lifted at Portiuncula Hospital earlier this week following agreement between the nursing union, the Irish Nurses’ Organisation, and the HSE West.

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.

Business leaders from the Westmeath area are being invited to attend the International Local Government Convention to be held in Killarney in March.  

The HSE warned staff at Portiuncula Hospital this week that services will be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action threatened by the Irish Nurses Organisation goes ahead.

In a move to highlight the growing dispute between senior nurse managers and the HSE, staff at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe staged another lunchtime protest yesterday (Thursday).

The figures speak for themselves so let’s see what the figures actually said in the recent local elections to the Galway city and county councils.

Fine Gael general secretary, Tom Curran, has announced that Cllr Mark Cooney and Cllr John Dolan are to join the party’s local election team for Westmeath County Council in the Athlone Local Electoral Area.

Company Sergeant Bernard Donovan from Co Kilkenny, who served with the EU-led Chad mission, was one of the thousands of Irish peacekeepers lauded by the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon during his recent visit to Ireland.

Westmeath has the third highest 2nd level school absentee rate in the country behind Leitrim and Cavan, according to figures released earlier this year from the school attendance body, the National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) but highlighted by the teachers' union, the INTO, at conference this week.