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The point-blank gunshot to his head cemented Helen Ogbu’s crushing fear her husband had been assassinated. He was not the random, tragic victim of a robbery gone wrong.

Former President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, has returned a total of €2.6 million to the taxpayer over the course of his fourteen years as head of state.

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.

Almost 1,300 households across Galway city and county received a notice to quit from their landlord last year.

Helen Ogbu was formally endorsed by the Labour Party at a heavily attended selection convention this week, to chants of “Gaillimh Abú, Gallimh Ogbu” by almost 100 supporters.

Galway Bay is widely celebrated as one of the region’s greatest natural resources, a place that belongs to everyone yet remains inaccessible to many. For Moycullen resident Kay Diviney, a member of the Gentle Swimmers group, the bay represents both liberation and limitation. Kay has Multiple Sclerosis and is a wheelchair user, yet each week she makes the journey to the water across from the Galway Bay Hotel, supported by her husband Cathal and fellow swimmers. What awaits her is a powerful form of therapy, but one that is not reliably within her reach.

As the city gears up for its annual Culture Night tomorrow, Friday, September 19, one politician says local artists need certainty on the €25 million fund if they are to continue to create art for public consumption which is not commercially viable.

Asked how he would respond to a formal delegation from the Fianna Fáíl national executive regarding the presidential election, the former Galway West TD responded positively.

The Shantalla-based politician formally quit her party last week, just days after Soc Dem TD Eoin Hayes was readmitted to the so-called ‘purple party’ after an eight-month suspension for being opaque about his investment in a company providing software to the Israeli military.