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

Labour Party candidate for Galway-West, Cllr Helen Ogbu, has welcomed the release of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) General Election Manifesto, which sets out a comprehensive plan for advancing workers’ rights and protections. The manifesto’s commitments include strengthened collective bargaining rights, fair wages, and greater social dialogue to support fair and equitable treatment of workers across all sectors.

The Labour Party has selected John McDonagh as its Galway City Central candidate for this June’s local elections.

Labour City Councillor Niall Mc Nelis said the eviction ban must be extended until the end of 2023 to safeguard vulnerable renters from entering homelessness.

Attempts to privatise Galway Local Employment Services need “to be fought in every town and county”, otherwise they will “lose their true value” in supporting “vulnerable people back into the workplace”.

There was a feisty and interesting exchange in the Dáil last week that caught the attention of the national media and woke some of the sleeping deputies in the unparliamentary surroundings of the convention centre.

The results of a Behaviour & Attitudes (B&A) opinion poll in county Mayo, carried out on behalf of The Mayo Advertiser, show a decline in the Fine Gael and Sinn Fein share of the vote, and an increase in support for Fianna Fail and Independents, when compared to the general election of 2016.

The three Labour candidates running for seats on Galway City Council formally submitted their nomination papers on May Day at Galway City Hall, confirming that they will be on the ballot paper on May 24.

Galway poet Kevin Higgins is no stranger to satirising Blairites, and others on the right wing of the British Labour Party, but he recently found himself in the unusual position of upsetting members of Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet.