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Abolish the Senate — YES — John Fitzgerald

A Connemara cottage has found itself caught up in the middle of a political storm in the US with an outgoing senator being accused of accepting a “sweetheart real estate deal” in exchange for helping a businessman friend get a presidential pardon for tax and securities crimes.

As a year of potentially enormous political significance begins, Insider has decided to look at the prospects for each party, both on a national and local level. Insider will look at Galway West today, and return to Galway East in the coming weeks. Insider cannot recall a time of more political uncertainty, and he firmly believes that the result of the election could also differ considerably depending on the date it is held. Is the 'Gilmore Gale' still blowing? Will Brian Cowen even lead FF into battle? Has Enda Kenny put the questions over his capacity for the job of Taoiseach to bed? Will the disaffected members of the public support SF in unprecedented numbers? How many more sitting TD's will opt out? Are the Greens already a spent force? So much uncertainty, and so much anger. So much to lose, and so much to win. Insider has decided to sum up the reasons he would vote 'for' or 'against' each party.

Rebuilding the State and creating a political and economic culture that people trust will be long and very difficult, but it can be done, because it has to be done, according to Fine Gael councillor Brian Walsh.

Fine Gael councillor Brian Walsh has dismissed as “nonsense”, comments in a recent Insider column suggesting that he and Dep Pádraic McCormack are “at each other’s throats”.

BARACK OBAMA’S Irish heritage will be the subject of a lecture tomorrow at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.

Irish business mogul Ben Dunne is calling for a total clean-out of current Oireachtas members and the replacement of existing TDs with a new batch of young people versed in business.

IN THE summer of 1978 a young man from Drogheda named Niall O’Dowd had just graduated from UCD with a BA degree but in unemployment-ravaged Ireland he felt his prospects lay elsewhere.

Local senator and Castlepollard businessman, Donie Cassidy, had a lucky escape when a front wheel fell off the plane during landing on an internal flight in Turkey on Monday.

Senator Nicky McFadden is dissatisfied with the response she received from the Minister for Health when she raised the plight of Mullingar Hospital’s Sexual Assault Treatment Unit this week.