The Labour party has been reduced to 17 councillors out of 48 in the Oxford city council as the Greens and the Independent Oxford Alliance made gains in extremely tight local elections.
Senator Malcolm Byrne has called on representatives of Deputy Verona Murphy's new ‘party’, the Independent Alliance, to indicate their approach to building a majority on Wexford County Council to agree a programme, budgets and the election of positions.
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One startling fact: the number of Independents elected to the Dáil in recent years has exceeded the combined number elected to all other EU member state parliaments