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Before Fianna Fáil unveiled Gráinne Seoige in September as its celebrity candidate to replace outgoing Connemara stalwart Éamon Ó Cuív TD, the Social Democrats had already been in talks with her younger sister, fellow broadcaster Síle Seoige, initially about running for the European parliament, and later in a possible autumn general election.

Half of the 27 candidates who have declared for the Midlands-North-West European Parliament constituency set out their stalls at two similar events this week with very different outcomes.

Housing expert, activist and author of Gaffs, Rory Hearne, believes that we can and must act fast to simultaneously address the housing and immigration crisis in Ireland and believes the solution is glaringly obvious - open up the tens of thousands of buildings lying empty around the country and repurpose them as housing.

A virtual town hall meeting organised by Uplift in association with author and Maynooth University lecturer, Rory Hearne, and Galway founded housing festival group, Féile Housing, will take place on April 13 at 7pm.

A first of its kind housing festival, Féile Housing, took place in the city last weekend, looking at the realities of the current housing emergency and possible solutions over the two-day event.

Tomorrow (Friday) evening, a free talk on Ireland’s Housing Crisis will take place at Kennys Bookshop in Liosbán as Rory Hearne, housing expert and author of Gaffs: Why no one can buy a house, and what we can do about it will be joined in conversation by Karen Feeney, Head of Client Services at Galway Simon Community. It will take place at 6pm and all are welcome.

Family Hubs will not solve the housing crisis, but instead deepen and 'normalise' homelessness. Instead, the Government must abandon its reliance on the 'the market' and intervene directly in order to solve this crisis.

Back in February, when the Dáil debated the hospital waiting list scandal, Fine Gael Galway West TD Hildegard Naughton fired out a press release detailing another outrageous statistic about UHG’s A&E Department - as if it had nothing to do with her party.