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The decline in the number of tourists to Ireland, as revealed by the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office, shows there is an “urgent need for action”.

The role of the President of Ireland is not one that is aloof or removed from day to day life, but a position which can allow the head of state the “freedom to address issues which are not being addressed”.

Bias against the west of Ireland and favouritism towards the east is evident in the Government’s decision to “indefinitely suspend” work on the final completion of the Western Rail corridor.

New planning guidelines from the Environment Minister John Gormley will not prevent councillors from zoning flood plains for development, Labour TD Michael D Higgins has warned.

The proposal for a memorial to Famine victims on Mutton Island, made recently by Galwayman and writer Mark Kennedy, deserves the full support of Galway people and organisations.

The Budget is “an attack on the old who need security, and the young who need education” and removes the concept of citizenship from Irish politics, according to Dep Michael D Higgins.

IBEC wants massive cuts in the numbers employed in the public service but it has nothing to say about the mismanagement and corruption which has brought the Irish banking system to its knees.

The surge in unemployment means there is an urgent need for additional social welfare staff to deal with redundancy payments and referrals to Back to Education and Back to Enterprise schemes.

The economy is in recession and the banking system has failed, but the Government’s only solution is to “revive a model that has failed, rather than to totally reform the system”.

“Evasive and obfuscatory” is how Labour Galway West TD Michael D Higgins has described the Minister for Education’s responses to his questions about Coláiste na Coiribe.