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Galway city Cllr Pearse Flannery is hopeful his progressive stance on animal rights and human rights will help win support in the Seanad Elections for the NUI panel.

Election 2016 saw Galway West do two things it never did before - elect two Independents and, more significantly, elect two women, meaning Independent Catherine Connolly and FG's Hildegarde Naughton, join FF's Máire Geoghegan Quinn, as the only women to ever be returned for the constituency.

Cllr Pearce Flannery has been elected to the NUI Galway governing authority.

Local senator Fidelma Healy Eames has launched an online campaign which she hopes will help solve Galway’s chronic traffic problem.

The Fine Gael Constituency Executive of Galway West & South Mayo would like to pay tribute to Brian Walsh T.D and his family for the contribution he has made to Fine Gael and the people of Galway West.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny has welcomed the decision to grant full planning permission for the Mayo Roscommon Hospice facility in Castlebar.

Sat Oct 17 will see Senator Fidelma Healy Eames launch her Independent campaign for a Dail seat in Galway West/ South Mayo with a ‘Night at the Dogs’.

What was Home Rule? How did John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party operate and how was it viewed throughout the country prior to 1916? How popular was Redmond’s decision to call on Irishmen to fight in World War I? 

A local senator has this week questioned the democracy of a decision to withdraw social inclusion funding from FORUM Connemara. The organisation has administered social and community assistance programmes in Connemara for the past 25 years, but was informed last month that service will shortly come to an end.

Galway parents will have a chance to shape new legislation tackling cyber-bullying at a meeting in the city this evening.