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Labour’s Councillor Helen Ogbu has called for urgent action to make flexible and remote work a real, enforceable right for workers, warning that families and communities in Galway are paying the price for weak protections and a growing push to force people back into long commutes.

Questions of labour, and its conditions, are moving into the centre of the political discussion again, driven by the rise of the so-called 'gig economy' - the notion that the sort of 'side-gig' job, long being used by many to supplement regular incomes, might instead become a mainstay of the economy.