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Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has called for increased funding to be made available for women’s refuges across the country.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has urged the Government to do much more to deliver gender equality, warning that many women still face unacceptable barriers to working after they have children.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has criticised the ever lengthening waiting list at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar with in excess of 8,992 persons awaiting an outpatient appointment.

Close to 60,000 people, including 5,243 children, are on waiting lists at Galway University Hospitals (UHG and Merlin Park) - the highest number of people on waiting lists at any hospital in the State.

The "massive backlog" of 72,738 people awaiting a driving test is a problem that will only grow and become more serious, especially once schools re-open.

Local Sinn Féin aspirant, Padraig Hegarty has now been officially selected to contest the forthcoming local election in the Athlone local election area.

Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats have announced their Galway City Council candidates for the Local Elections in May 2019, while Independent councillor Mike Cubbard has also announced he is seeking re-election.

Brexit D-Day is coming ever closer and yet the British government continues to lurch shambolically through the issue, its approach a chaotic mix of delusion and ineptitude. A refreshingly clear-eyed and illuminating view of Brexit can be found this weekend at the Galway Film Fleadh, when David Wilkinson’s documentary Postcards From the 48% will be screened at the Pálás cinema on Sunday afternoon.

Following the shock resignation of Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh from Sinn Féin late last week, a second elected representative, county councillor Gabe Cronnelly, has resigned from the party as well.