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Galway councillor quits Facebook as colleague lashes ‘toxic’ comments

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03.05.2025

Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

Galway City Councillor Alan Curran has quit Facebook – soon after he left Twitter.

The Social Democrat representative for Galway City West also left Instagram, Facebook’s sister social media platform owned by Meta.

Curran, a secondary school teacher in Salthill, deleted his accounts in the same week that his Council colleague, Cllr Shane Forde (FG), warned about relentless negativity online towards Galway City Council.

Forde said debate on social media, under City Council posts, was often “toxic”. He was concerned about the welfare of staff at........

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