Salthill man AJ Cahill has announced that he will stand as an Independent candidate for the Galway City West ward in June’s Local Elections.
The 41-year-old lives in Salthill with his Polish wife and two children. He is a former Eircom Internet network manager and has founded two successful high technology companies. He is a former advisor to number of Independent TDs.
Mr Cahill’s main interest and campaign platform is his ‘Local Jobs & Solutions in Galway’ plan.
“The number of people signing on in Galway city alone has increased by 74 per cent in the last 12 months from 6,198 to 10,810 people,” he said. “Talk is not going to solve our current problems. We need a plan and new leadership - I have prepared a plan to create good local jobs that depends on good local solutions.”
Mr Cahill believes that Galway “needs to look to itself” for solutions instead of towards the Government or abroad, “and create a model of economic and social recovery for the rest of Ireland”.
He says new businesses, with the initial target of 1,000 new local jobs, can be created centred around software, tourism, construction, energy, and call centres.
He says Galway can create software services using the private sector, which will be offered to the Galway City Council and Government agencies, before exporting these services throughout the public service nationally and then internationally.
