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Fri 05 May 2004Candidates in Galway seize on clamping issueCouncil area profile/Galway city: If Garda Shaun Durkin ever had any political ambitions, he could have done well to seek a nomination in this year's local elections in Galway city. He has been identified as the hero of the hour in the controversial car-clamping incident earlier this month.It was the young garda who paid the clamping fine for the parent of a sick child outside a doctor's clinic. The incident has provided local election material for several councillors, with one from Fianna Fáil and two Progressive Democrats stating in no uncertain terms that it is time to give the clamping firm involved "the boot".