Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It became an inevitability when the Government decided to reduce the number of seats from 166 to fewer than 160. There is great disappointment in south Mayo that it is not part of a wider Mayo constituency, although I believe the people are quite willing to recognise that geographically I live nearer to them than the Mayo Deputies, given that I live only five miles from the Mayo border-----

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