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We concur, but don’t forget Grealish, with his stronghold centred on ‘Greater Carnmore’ (population 9,000), was elected on the eighth count in 2020, alongside Mairéad Farrell (SF) and Ó Cuív, after eliminated Labour, Independent, Green Party and Fianna Fáil candidates' votes were distributed between the top three.

Galway West Independent TD Noel Grealish has called for a cap on the number of TDs elected to Dáil Éireann.

The Longford/Westmeath constituency electorate have resoundingly defeated the referenda presented before the public in the polling booths on Friday last, March 8.

An additional Dáil Deputy will represent the constituency of Longford/Westmeath, a proposed recommendation by the Electoral Commission has revealed.

A group of Mayo Civil Defence volunteers attended a ceremony in Croke Park this week where they were recognised for their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh has called Mayo Government TDs in the County to support her Party’s Pyrite Dáil motion which will be debated on Tuesday evening. The motion seeks cross party agreement to provide 100 per cent redress for homeowners who have been devastated by the pyrite scandal.

Reflecting upon the statistics which prevailed in the Longford/Westmeath constituency upon the conclusion of counting in the General Election 2020, voter turn out was almost three percent lower (60 percent) than the national figure of 60.9 percent.

I was thinking back on Dáil business last week, and the real heroes and winners of any of the debates which were held were those who went and protested against what we might loosely call the ‘Bingo legislation’. This was legislation which the Government was bringing in, not to curtail bingo players, but to have a more equitable share-out of the funding of such events.

In a rare move, the Ceann Comhairle is to seek time for a debate on the HSE plan to slash home help hours due to the virtually unprecedented number of TDs seeking to have the matter discussed, Denis Naughten TD, has confirmed.

Labour TD for Longford-Westmeath, Willie Penrose has welcomed the commitment from Minister for Communication, Climate Control and the Environment, Denis Naughten, to review the criteria for the connection of rural towns to the natural gas grid, having raised the issue in the Dáil.