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Ireland’s four-year budget plan could put the safety and wellbeing of workers at risk as managers look to cut costs, Ireland’s leading professional health and safety body has warned.

The State’s finances are in a bad state and the incoming government after the 2011 General Election will have its work cut out trying to maintain even the most basic of public services like education, health care, and social housing.

Galway West is normally the most predictable and uneventful constituency in the State. For the past 25 years it has returned two Fianna Fáil, one Fine Gael, one Labour, and one PD without fail, and indeed not many of the faces have even changed.

Sinn Féin councillor Rose Conway-Walsh has described Fine Gael’s plan to reduce the number of workers in the public service by 30,000 as “a plan to lengthen the dole queues”. She also challenged the Labour Party to state if it would go along with such a plan.

Sinn Fein has organised a mass rally for Dublin city centre on December 4 next in defence of low and middle income earners, of public services and the most vulnerable.

Labour Affairs Minister and Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo, Dara Calleary, has said that Fine leader Enda Kenny is in no position to give lectures on economic policy given his own party cannot seem to agree on its own policies.

The importance of agriculture beyond the farm gate is often not fully appreciated, Mairead McGuinness, Fine Gael MEP, said in Swinford at the weekend.

Residents in three east side estates will be able to contact the Galway City Council about maintenance for their area now that the council has taken the neighbourhoods in charge.

Galway West voters will have a major say in who forms the next Government, because if they vote for Éamon Ó Cuív, Frank Fahey, or Noel Grealish, they will be voting to keep the highly unpopular Brian Cowen in office.

Teachers’ unions meeting in Galway and elsewhere this week were deeply divided on the issue of the controversial public service pay and reform deal with a small majority at the INTO conference accepting the deal while both the TUI and ASTI delegates rejected it.