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Count centres are like catnip for political reporters: we just can’t resist visiting them. And politicians – usually button-lipped around pol corrs – tend to want to chat about everything under the sun when ballots are being sorted, as the uniquely democratic adrenalin of fear and anticipation courses through their party-political veins.

Fianna Fáil’s Josie Forde, a first-time candidate and the party’s only female runner in Galway, is one of six new councillors who survived the field of 52 runners on a day when her party lost its position as the largest on the local authority, going down from five to four seats. Her 665 first preferences got her in on the 14th count.

All signs point to a Fianna Fáil-Labour-Sinn Féin coalition with support from Independent councillors to run the Galway City Council for the next five years.

All signs point to a Fianna Fáil-Labour-Sinn Féin coalition with support from Independent councillors to run the Galway City Council for the next five years.

Labour Councillor Niall Mc Nelis said it’s time to stamp out the grotesque practice of recording or sharing images taken at the scene of a road accident.

Niall Mc Nelis has repeated his calls for Galway City to be reclassified as a large local authority because the current designation is “strangling the budget of City and does not help with the provision of services.”

Polling Day: 18 seats to be filled

Councillors were voting to approve plans for a community retail centre, creche, cafe, outdoor ampitheatre, 84 south-facing social housing units with sea views, and a landscaped plaza behind Colaiste na Corribe secondary school off the Ballymoneen Road.

One of the final acts of the current Galway City councillors was to approve planning permission for 20 floodlights at Westside Running Track.

Cuba’s ambassador to Ireland unveiled a new plaque in Galway last week celebrating historic links between the two island nations.