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Michael D Higgins, the Galway Labour TD and one of the most prominent figures in Irish politics, will give a public interview in NUI, Galway next week.

The proposal for a memorial to Famine victims on Mutton Island, made recently by Galwayman and writer Mark Kennedy, deserves the full support of Galway people and organisations.

An Bord Snip Nua is where it’s at for the news media right now and the ‘big ticket items’ - public sector job cuts and social welfare cuts - that have got the attention to date. However the really interesting detail may be contained in the minutiae of the report - and there’s plenty there to excite people in Galway!

Flirt FM 101.3, the NUI, Galway student radio station, will have its new premises in Áras na Mac Léinn officially opened at 3pm this Monday by Labour Party president Michael D Higgins.

What is it about soccer and Galway politicians? Terryland is so full of them that Galway United’s home ground could nearly be regarded as the ‘second council chamber’!

The Western Writers’ Centre must be included in the Galway City Council’s Galway Arts Plan 2009 as it is working to “preserve and encourage the unique literary heritage of the west”.

Within the next few weeks, Libertas will make an announcement on whether or not its founder Declan Ganley will run as a candidate in the North-West in the EU elections.

Last evening's Budget will drive talented people away from this country by making them seriously consider emigration, a Galway senator claimed last night.