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Although not designed to reduce traffic congestion within Galway city, a bypass or orbital road route at the edge of the city has become a rallying cry of commuters stuck in Galway city’s seemingly endless traffic jams. It will go from Coolagh to out past Furbo on the Coast Road via a new bridge near Menlo.

Gráinne Seoige, Fianna Fáil’s General Election candidate for Galway West, has said Fianna Fáil plans will tackle rural crime in Connemara and anti-social behaviour across the constituency.

Fine Gael Election Candidate, Minister Hildegarde Naughton, has welcomed the completion of the masterplan for the University Hospital Galway (UHG) complex on Newcastle Road. Minister Naughton has long advocated for the relocation of elective care away from this site to Merlin Park Hospital and this plan is a vindication of that view.

The establishment of a dedicated Galway City Taskforce would be positive news that would be broadly welcomed, a Fine Gael General Election candidate has said.

Sinn Féin General Election candidate for Galway East, Cllr Louis O’Hara, has said that carers across Galway are struggling financially and receiving payments way below the established minimum essential standard of living. O’Hara argues that the means test for carers allowance must be abolished and that Sinn Féin in government are committed to doing so.

In a week when the next president of the USA appointed an official to oversee an expulsion of undocumented migrants, Galway City councillors were celebrating the life of a man who dedicated his to regularising illegal immigrants in America.

Sinn Féin General Election candidate for Galway East, Cllr Louis O’Hara, has said that Sinn Féin in Government would abolish the USC on the first €45,000 you earn, meaning that the majority of workers across Galway will not pay any USC on their income.

Labour Party candidate for Galway West, Councillor Helen Ogbu, has revealed her party’s manifesto for Housing, pledging construction of 50,000 homes annually.

Gráinne Seoige’s comments about cancer services in Galway are deeply irresponsible and only serve to scaremonger patients and their families, a Fine Gael General Election candidate has said.