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Galway Bay fm newsroom - A Connemara-based T.D is pushing for a return to direct elections to the board of Udarás na Gaeltachta.
A new Fianna Fáil bill co-sponsored by Eamon Ó'Cuív, Pat the Cope Gallagher and Aindrias O'Muineachain calls for a return to the direct election process.
The deputies say the abolition of the system in 2012 was an attack on democracy.
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