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The members of Ballina Town Council adjourned their monthly meeting this week until next Wednesday as a mark of respect to former councillor Jimmy Sheridan who passed away recently.

In the most momentous week of his political career, as he resigned from the Fianna Fáil party and declared his independent candidature for the forthcoming General Election, poll-topping local councillor Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has gone to ground and become uncontactable.

Insider has often commented on what he sees as the faults and failings (and occasionally virtues) of the individual city councillors, but it is time he turned his attention onto the 30 members of the Galway County Council.

“It’s been interesting, I’ve never canvassed for anyone else before never mind myself.” Sandra Cribben is well known for promoting Ballina from her position within Ballina Chamber, but the 38-year-old is hoping to take up residence in a different chamber after June. Cribben put her name forward for this year’s town council elections and hitched herself to the Fianna Fáil ticket in the town where she hopes to take over the seat being vacated by outgoing councillor Padraig Moore, who has decided to step down from the council at the end of this term.

“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better,” so said Wendell Phillips, the 19th century American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, lawyer, and writer.