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From Breaking News: Fine Gael’s Padraig McCormack has decided to defend his Galway West seat next year (someone might correct me, but is that now four Fine Gael candidates? Surely one will have to drop out). No doubt good news for Fine Gael with McCormack having a good record of vote getting. It’s still a [...]

A blow for Enda as the front-runner to retain Padraic McCormack’s long-held seat in Galway West has withdrawn. The Irish Times (sub. req’d) reports that Councillor Brian Walsh, seen as having the best chance of winning the seat, has cited “personal reasons” for doing so. Enda’s statement includes greetings to Walsh’s “new wife [...]

There’s been an interesting trend in the recent TG4 polls conducted by TNS/MRBI compared to national figures being delivered by RedC and TNS/MRBI in the Sunday Business Post and The Irish Times respectively. Added to this can be the reporting in The Kerryman of two polls seen there.
There appears to be an increasing trend [...]

In an interview with NUI Galway’s student newspaper SIN, Niall Ó Brolcháin is asked the question I wrote about previously about his car:
You were given a new hybrid car. Would it not have been more environmentally sound to keep your old car as 40 per cent of the pollution generated by a car in [...]

The first thing I did when I saw this headline in the Fianna Fail press releases—Streaking is not a laughing matter: Crowe—was laugh.

From the Indo Breaking News:
Gardai in Galway are investigating a break-in at the constituency office of Progressive Democrats TD Noel Grealish.
The premises, which is attached to Mr Grealish’s business in Briarhill Business Park, was ransacked during the incident overnight.
The PD politician, who discovered the break-in when he arrived at the office this morning, says he [...]

Despite a recent bump in the polls, it looks like the PDs may lose one of their safer seats in Galway West. From the Galway Advertiser:
Most fascinating though are the findings regarding Mayor Ó Brolcháin and Dep Grealish. The poll shows the Mayor doing very well and Dep Grealish not doing well enough. This is [...]

Niall O’Brolcháin Green candidate in Galway West is trading in the Mayoral jag for a more environmentally friendly car. Yet what he is doing is not enviromentally friendly at all.

If there is any story we have missed please let us know. Feel free to comment on any story.
Galway Advertiser
Sinn Fein to run two candidates in Galway West
Sinn Féin will repeat its 2002 election strategy by running two candidates - one in the city and the other in Connemara - during the 2007 General Election, [...]

Round up of the news from the Local Papers. Feel free to comment on any stories.
Western PeopleO’Mahony still in election race
WITH a date set for the Fine Gael convention, the countdown for potential candidates to declare themselves is on with high profile football manager John O’Mahony still in the running.
Speculation has been rife in recent [...]

In what will likely be an oft-repeated quote, the newly elected president of the Garda Representative Association, John Egan has said that the government has a year (or implicitly, until the election) to deliver extra resources to the Garda and abandon the proposal for a reserve force, or ‘if they do not, we will be [...]

Round up of the News from the Local papers. Not all the the unison Papers are online at the minute so I may have missed some inportant news. As always if there is a piece you have seen in your local paper. Tell us in the comments.
The Kingdom
Queen in terror plot:
In an alarming statement issued [...]

The turnover continues.  Padraic McCormack FG has announced that he won’t run again in Galway West.  He’s 63 and approaching 20 years in the Oireachtas, the first two of which in the Senate.  Galway West is typical of FG’s national problems, with only one seat out of five.  They had to be thinking about getting [...]

Some times the news can miss the stories from the local newspapers. So here is Irishelection’s top stories from the country.
The Meath Chronicle
Fraud Squad to probe purchase of Navan land
The “investigation will be conducted by Chief Superintendent Austin McNally of the Fraud Squad. The purchase of the land was made by local auctioneers and [...]