Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

The Galway West bye-election probably won’t be held until late April or May next year, but the odds compilers for Paddy Power would want to brush up on their candidates before then.

At odds of 5/4, the bookmaker installed Noel Thomas, the Independent Ireland Galway County Councillor, as the early favourite to take the seat vacated by Catherine Connolly’s election to Áras an Uachtaráin.

That’s fair enough. The Moycullen man was the last candidate standing........

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