Independent Ireland’s Noel Thomas tops Galway West by-election first count poll as ‘biggest issue’ for voters revealed

INDEPENDENT Ireland’s Noel Thomas has topped the poll in first count of the Galway West bye-election, with 10,007 votes. He finished just a few hundred votes ahead of Fine Gael’s Sean Kyne, who brought in 9,647 first preference votes. Labour’s Helen Ogbu is also not out of the race after bagging 5,462 first preferences and...