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Sinn Féin members in Connemara have no confidence in Mary Lou McDonald, a former election candidate for the party has said.

“I think there’s a perception that just because we’re from a rural area, that we’re somehow conservative by default, or we don’t want to engage in meaningful debate, but safe to say it’s completely inaccurate.”

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.

Helen Ogbu was formally endorsed by the Labour Party at a heavily attended selection convention this week, to chants of “Gaillimh Abú, Gallimh Ogbu” by almost 100 supporters.

Party leader Ivana Bacik will attend next week’s convention to select city councillor Helen Ogbu as Labour’s candidate for the 2026 Galway West by-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.

In years past, the NDP would be a ‘shopping list’ of projects which the cabinet awarded funding to, often after intense local lobbying, but it is now more a broad-brush statement of which policy areas or government departments will have funding prioritised.

Fine Gael Senators have tabled a motion to be debated in the Seanad this week urging the Government to continue to reduce the student contribution fee during its lifetime.

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

The Social Democrats have selected Councillor Ebhlín Seoighthe to contest the Galway West constituency in the upcoming general election.