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Years of simmering discontent about how central government funds the city council reached boiling point this week, when councillors roasted Galway’s TDs and senators for failing to champion the regional capital’s local authority.

The Arts Capital Investment Fund was opened for submissions last week, with a deadline of December 18.

Four projects in Galway West will receive funding for positive community action, a Fine Gael TD has said. Deputy Seán Kyne said €57,000 will go directly to two projects in Galway City, while Simon Community Galway will receive a share of the €127,300 allocation and Tosú Social Inclusion Ireland in Galway will receive a sum from the €142,500 allocation to strengthen community safety, inclusion and integration.

The government’s draft planning guidelines could potentially give precedence to applicants from Gaeltachts in other counties over locals for one-off housing developments in Connemara.

City Councillor Frank Fahy is seeking to win Fine Gael’s nominaton to fill the Seanad seat vacated by new Galway West TD Seán Kyne.

There was hardly a dry eye among councillors in the chamber after Mayor Helen Ogbu was finished with them.

Among the six candidates in the ‘Vote Left, Transfer Left’ alliance, Councillor Helen Ogbu emerged as the strongest performer from last week’s by-election.

It was supposed to be a battle for the soul of Galway West, but it became a clash in Connemara, then sub plots in the city, as Fine Gael strapped in for a rare government party win in a by-election where every vote counted.

In politics, it is often the little things that make the biggest difference.