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AS THE Galway Races gets under way the latest Fianna Fáil ‘cutback’ - or ‘adjustment’ if you prefer - will be obvious to one and all. The Fianna Fáil tent is no more. Is this a sign of the times or just a sensible move by new Taoiseach Brian Cowen?

“I might be down but I am not out. I have every intention of contesting the next local elections and I would see the best option for me right now is to run as an independent,” said local PD councillor, Walter Lacey, following the devastating news that the Progressive Democrats are no longer politically viable.

It’s been a colourful week in politics one has to say.

“I might be down but I am not out. I have every intention of contesting the next local elections and I would see the best option for me right now is to run as an independent,” said local PD councillor, Walter Lacey, following the devastating news that the Progressive Democrats are no longer politically viable.

Mary Harney must resign as Minister for Health as it has proven “a bridge too far for her” and her position is “now untenable”.

The Pope’s children are 30. As 2009 dawns it will be 30 years since the Pope went around the Racecourse in Ballybrit and told the young people of Ireland that he loved them. But the young people at Ballybrit were not the Pope’s children. The young people of Ballybrit in 1979 are anything from 45 to 55 now. They were well able to cheer and clap and sing loudly in 1979. The Pope’s children are a different generation.

Sen Ciaran Cannon has said he brought forward his decision to join Fine Gael in order to support Cllr Mogie Maher and other local representatives in the run-up to the Local Elections.