About 20% of the country’s political representatives are landlords, according to the most recent registry of members interests.

GARDAÍ investigating the serious assault on a man walking alone in Galway city centre on Thursday are preparing a file for the DPP.

ULSTER BANK plans to open three new branches and business banking offices this week.

Four hundred and fifty new jobs are due to come on stream in Galway over the next week as Dunnes Stores opens two more outlets in the city.

GARDAÍ are investigating the possibility that a burglary at the constituency office of the Progressive Democrat TD Noel Grealish in Galway in the early hours of yesterday morning might have been politically motivated.