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Having served five years as an MEP, Maria Walsh has said that she is standing for reelection to the European Parliament as the candidate with the experience needed to get things done in Brussels.

Sitting MEP Maria Walsh is bidding for a second term in the European Parliament, having officially launched her re-election campaign this week.

While some might know me best as the Rose of Tralee, I now have a strong political track-record from Europe to share.

In 1991, on the crest of their wave, The Saw Doctors played an iconic concert in their hometown at Tuam Stadium that has stayed in the memory of their fans. In the interim, there have been many calls for the gig to be repeated — and finally it is going to happen.

In its short existence the Galway National Park City (GNPC) initiative, based on connecting people and nature in an urban environment and with an sustainability ethos, has had a positive impact on the local landscape providing opportunities and collaborations for citizens and organisations from different sectors to creatively work together on successfully developing new pioneering environmental and sustainability programmes.

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The recent United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report signed off by 195 governments is a truly terrifying read. It makes clear that Global Warming- characterised by more intense and frequent heatwaves, storms, rainfall, flooding and melting glaciers as well as rising sea levels, is due to human activity. It further stated that no part of the world is safe from its consequences and that these changes are accelerating.

The European Union, and its lynchpin project, the euro, had a charmed existence in publicity terms during the worst of the Brexit years from 2016 to 2019.

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The chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the local public hospitals, has appealed to people to rely on trusted, responsible sources for information on the Covid-19 vaccine.