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It is not only the Irish political landscape and Galway West which look set to be transformed by tomorrow’s General Election, but the Galway City Council as well.

The elected members of Mayo County Council were forced to vote in a new member of the local authority to sit on the governing authority of the National University of Ireland, Galway this week. The vacancy on the governing authority at the third level institution came about after the council executive received correspondence from the university which informed them that Cllr Henry Kenny who had been appointed to the authority was “deemed to have resigned his seat”.

Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy Eames looks set to be the first woman to win a seat in Galway West since the retirement of Máire Geoghegan Quinn, according to a new poll carried out by the Galway Advertiser.

Carlow County Council will officially voice its opposition to proposed Government cutbacks in education following a unanimous decision to adopt a local Fine Gael motion.

“If Connaughton had only been named Sue or Seamus or Michael, I’d have had a chance, but to be called Paul, well that killed me in the polls.”

Speaking in that unique east Galway accent of his, defeated FG councillor Michael Finnerty summed up the strength of the Paul Connaughton brand when he said to me afterwards “If young Conner-ton had only been named Sue or Seamus or Michael, but anything but Paul, I might have had a chance.”

She was Calamity Jane whose rootin’, tootin’, shot gun style blew John Mulholland out of the water and saw her capture the seat for Fine Gael in June’s Local Elections.

Labour cannot “deny families the opportunity to build homes on family owned land” and at the same time call for “large scale rezoning” of land in the city.