Letters

Dear Editor, Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?
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Dear Editor, The Campaign Against Household, Water and Septic Tank Taxes will be hosting another round of public meetings throughout Galway City and County over the coming weeks. Starting this Thursday, 10 May, upstairs in Richardson’s in Eyre Square at 8pm, followed by a meeting in Kinsella's bar Loughrea on Tuesday, 15 May at 8pm.
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Dear Editor, Ireland Reaching Out is a new voluntary initiative seeking to identify those who left Ireland, in order to trace them and their descendants worldwide. A team of volunteers is involved in the Irish Government-sponsored project, researching the names of Irish emigrants, contacting them or their descendants and inviting them to Ireland for the Week of Welcomes in South-East Galway from 24 to 30 June.
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Dear Editor, Well folks, the time has come. It’s been 35 years, but, thanks to representations from Galway City Council, I’ve decided to make my comeback in Galway this summer. Due to the unstinting efforts of one particular councillor, my trusted manager Uncle Tom Parker has convinced me it’s the right time.
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With the HSE paying over €50 million to private nursing homes in Galway since 2009, do you think that more of these resources should be put into maintaining public facilities such as St Francis' Nursing Home?
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Wednesday, 25 April   @colmtobin I'm no football expert, but if you ask me, both Spanish teams in the CL semis looked terrified about facing Ireland in the Euros.   @declanganley The Irish Government calling such an early referendum date is now exposed as a serious strategic blunder.
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Dear Editor, Oranmore’s Sinn Féin Cumann is calling on all Galway councillors in the city and county to support a motion forbidding local authority officials accessing the records of utility companies in order to track down those who rightly refused to pay the unfair Household Charge.
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Tweets of the week   Wednesday, 18 April   @dereknolanTD Delighted with news of 220 new jobs for Indreabhán. Great news for the Gaeltacht, Connemara and Galway.   @galwayartsfest Standing ovation for Cillian Murphy for his opening night performance of Misterman at The National Theatre London.
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Dear Editor, Last June, to great fanfare, Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton officially launched the JobBridge internship programme. The scheme creates six or nine month internships for people currently unemployed, for which they receive €50 per week from the Department of Social Protection on top of their existing welfare entitlement.
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Do you think the actions of the gardaí at last week's Labour conference in Galway were justified? Mark Glynn - …the use of pepper spray on a crowd of protesters that included students, single mothers and many pensioners was unjustified as well as disgraceful.
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Wednesday, 11 April   @GaryTraynor1 Personally I think the @galwayindo are having a giraffe by never putting any of my tweets in their ‘Tweets Of The Week’.   @donnchanuig There's a lot of people on TV3 talking about someone called ‘Pippa’.
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Dear Editor, Recent protests at the Fine Gael Ard-fheis in Dublin and the Labour Party conference in Galway have shown the huge levels of opposition to the agenda of austerity set by the Government. The Fine Gael-Labour coalition have attempted a series of brutal attacks on the ordinary people of Ireland, including the household and septic tank charges, cuts and closures of rural schools, rises in third level fees and closure of nursing homes.
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Dear Editor, One of the reasons I attended the demonstration last Saturday at the Labour Party conference, along with many others from Glór na Tuaithe, was to protest against the closing of Garda stations in rural Ireland.
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Dear Editor, As proposer of the motion to Galway City Council to commemorate Dr Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara with funding to be totally accruing from the Argentine and Cuban Embassies could I clarify on some very important points which have been distorted and twisted by opponents to the plan.
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