Irish Labour Party politicians <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins" class="extiw" title="w:Michael D. Higgins">Michael D. Higgins</a> (left), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Nolan" class="extiw" title="w:Derek Nolan">Derek Nolan</a> (centre), and party leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eamon_Gilmore" class="extiw" title="w:Eamon Gilmore">Eamon Gilmore</a> (right), during the 2009 local elections campaign, in which Nolan took a seat on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway_City_Council" class="extiw" title="w:Galway City Council">Galway City Council</a> for the first time. Nolan was later selected to run for the Labour Party in the Galway West constituency in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_general_election,_2011" class="extiw" title="w:Irish general election, 2011">Irish general election, 2011</a>, hoping to succeed Higgins.
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