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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.

When pioneers felt their women and children were under threat from marauding savages, they circled their wagons and fought back.

Galway will play host to a gathering of European local and regional leaders on 14 September, when politicians from across the European Union (EU) arrive in the city for a seminar on Developing Entrepreneurship In Coastal Cities And Regions. The event will take place in the Hardiman Hotel on Eyre Square and is being hosted by Cllr Declan McDonnell, one of Galway’s longest?serving public representatives and a member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).

An increase in Government subsidies towards the cost of childcare for hundreds of Galway families has been welcomed by Minister of State Noel Grealish.

Significant changes have been made to the Carer’s Allowance means test, marking the largest ever increase in weekly income disregards as well as allowing more families to qualify for support.

Across Galway, 7,200 houses and apartments will be directly serviced by these projects, with potential for a further 9,700 homes – mostly in the city. These locations were applied for by Galway’s city and county councils.

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.

Seventeen candidates will contest the seat vacated by Catherine Connolly’s election to the presidency.

The first by-election in Galway for more than half a century will be held on Friday, May 22.

Former Fianna Fáil minister Éamon Ó Cuív has slammed the government for making a “focain ciseach” [a fuckin’ mess] of the recent fuel protests and said that the upcoming bye-election in Galway West “will be hard” for the party.