Deletion of Billy Cameron (Galway)

Comment: He passes , as a councillor on Galway City Council is a Table of administrative divisions by country|first-level sub-national political office. I'm quite comfortable with this outcome in this case as I think he would pass  as well due to the extent to which he is covered in http://news.google.com.au/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&ned=au&hl=en&q=Billy+Cameron+galway&cf=all national media (in addition to merely local media such as the Advertiser). —Preceding Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned comment added by
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG)

Comment: Have you considered criteria 1 of ? This council is a first-level sub-national political office
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: I will comment below on that interpretation of , but the google link you provide consists overwhelmingly of local news media: Galway Bay FM, and the freesheet Galway Advertiser
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: National coverage is an absurd requirement that you seem to be reading into both  and . Would a state senator from Utah have national coverage? Of course not. This guy has significant coverage at his sub-national level confirming that he is notable as a first-level sub-national politician
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG)

Comment: Clearly fails  as election to a local council alone is not enough. The subject must be notable not locally but nationally and this person has no significant national coverage
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: See my comment above about interpreting . But here you make another fundamental mistake: local councillors in Ireland have no powers to pass laws.  They don't even have any significant powers to raise revenue (90% of their money comes from central govt), and they don't even have much power to run the councils, because most of the authority is vested in the County Manager or City Manager).Point 1 of  makes sense in the United States, where the first-level sub-national authority is the states.  But the average population of a US state is 6 million people, which is more than the entire population of the Republic of Ireland, whose 4.5 million people have 34 county and city councils
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: In any event, national coverage is not a requirement of {WP:GNG or . Imposing such a test is absurd for the reasons given in my comment below
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: despite passing , because  surely did not intend such non notable figures to pass the test
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLITICIAN)