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The Government is to slash the number of TDs in the Oireachtas and there are also plans to enforce a rule stating that all by elections must be held within six months, according to Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan.

Enda Kenny can certainly talk the talk — he did so in abundance during the General Election campaign. But now he is proving he can also walk the walk.

Fine Gael’s New Politics ‘is the most radical plan for political reform in the history of the State. A smaller, more nimble government will place the concerns of the citizen and not the insiders at the heart of the decision-making process,’ according to Party Environment Spokesman, Phil Hogan.

During his opening speech to a gathering at the Rivercourt Hotel in Kilkenny this week, Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny told the audience of supporters and media during his constituency visit, that in the past, politics was dominated by politics of cronyism made up of small groups of insiders — so-called ‘friends of Fianna Fail’.

Councillor Niall McNelis will have a significant role to play in Labour’s general and presidential election campaigns with his appointment as chair of the Labour Councillors Association.

The role of the President of Ireland is not one that is aloof or removed from day to day life, but a position which can allow the head of state the “freedom to address issues which are not being addressed”.

Uachtarán Na hEireann; Mrs Mary McAleese is coming to the end of her second term as president and must retire from her position. So we are faced with a hugely expensive presidential election next year most likely to decide between a motley collection of over the hill self-important windbags from various parties. In the past we have generally been presented with a list of political candidates run primarily to gain political bragging rights.

Senator David Norris was the special guest at the Galway City Museum on Monday where he launched the new Galway lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) group Amach!

“THE TERRORISM Of Everyday Life is my life story and how it was heavily influenced by rock’n’roll, or at least my interpretation of that term. I’m constantly rewriting and updating and as Galway hasn’t seen it yet, I’m looking to introducing it to them.”

Zimbabwe is in turmoil. Robert Mugabe has won another presidential election amid allegations of vote rigging, intimidation, and violence against opposition politicians. African nations will not act. Western governments are divided on what to do.