Gort

GORT’S Wild Swans took to the air this week, winging their way to San Francisco. Thousands flocked to see them in the annual St Patrick’s Day parade, which wound its way through the city on Saturday before the real performance began on Tuesday when the theatre group staged A Wake in the West in the Californian city.

GORT Family Resource Centre is calling on the new Government to vote for an International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers this summer.

A GROUP of South Galway teenagers are calling on businesses in the area to join with them to support a West of Ireland heart charity.

ALMOST 500 athletes and outdoor enthusiasts turned out on Saturday to take part in the inaugural Kinvara Rock and Road Half Marathon and 10km race.

Michael Kitt may have received the most votes in the Galway East constituency but Nicola Corless looks at who topped the poll in South Galway.

SOUTH Galway woman Emer O’Donnell attracted 601 first-preference votes in Friday’s General Election before being eliminated. The Kinvara archaeologist only announced her intention to run three weeks before polling day and with a campaign team of just three people, including herself, and three posters, she convinced 1% of the East Galway electorate to give her their number one.Prompted to run by what she saw as the mismanagement of the economy and waste of resources, the Kinvara woman said she will run again, next time with a better-organised campaign, if the new Government are not up to her standards.“I was seeing wasted resources on one hand and faulty decision making on the other and there seemed to be an inherent fear of the unknown. Leaders are meant to lead and in Ireland they did not. They passed the buck onto every citizen in Ireland without trying to defend us,” she told The Clare Champion.Ms O’Donnell secured 360 first preferences from people …

THE economy is the biggest issue for South Galway residents ahead of this week’s General Election. Of course, with more than 1,500 people on the Live Register in the Gort area alone according to January’s figures, is it any surprise?

NATIONALLY, Fine Gael spirits have been buoyed by opinion poll after opinion poll showing the party will lead the next government.