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President Catherine Connolly said she has a responsibility to “always speak truth to power” as she accepted the Freedom of Galway City last Friday, while using her address to defend Irish neutrality and warn against the normalisation of war.

SOLICITORS took industrial action at Tuam District Court on Tuesday, when they joined with their colleagues nationwide in a protest against reform of the free legal aid system by refusing to deal with any case which involved legal aid.

Connemara councillor Tomás Ó Curraoin has responded with searing criticism to the announcement that Britain’s King Charles will visit Ireland next year.

Among the six candidates in the ‘Vote Left, Transfer Left’ alliance, Councillor Helen Ogbu emerged as the strongest performer from last week’s by-election.

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.

In politics, it is often the little things that make the biggest difference.

This by-election is about what kind of future people want for Galway - and who will actually stand up for ordinary workers, families and communities when the votes are counted, according to Sinn Fein Galway West candidate Mark Lohan.

There have been four by-elections in the Galway West constituency since the foundation of the State. They took place on June 19, 1935; August 8, 1936; May 30,1940 and March 4, 1975.

The Pro Life Campaign is actively encouraging its supporters in Galway West to ‘think pro-life’ before voting in the upcoming by-election. The national based group is drawing attention to Ireland’s “soaring abortion numbers” and the fact that “1 in 6 pregnancies now ends in abortion in this country.”

Sinn Féin members in Connemara have no confidence in Mary Lou McDonald, a former election candidate for the party has said.