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Major grants schemes must be put in place by the incoming Government to help small and medium sized businesses and the hospitality sector enterprises “get back up and running”.

Greek political activist Giannis Koutras will address a public meeting in Galway tomorrow on the issue of the bank and EU/IMF bailouts.

Is cancelling the IMF/EU bailout and defaulting on the State’s debt a populist slogan, dangerous economics, or the only viable political and economic first step out of the mess we are in?

Our election is now over for a while at least and we should now shelve the electoral and political strategy and get on with trying to save our economy. Except we cannot do this because another election is looming and it is having an even greater influence on our economic policies than anything ever dreamt up by strategists on these shores.

The economy, the bank bailout and political reform dominated the launch of General Election candidate Martin Daly’s campaign in Ballina. Over 100 people attended the launch in Hotel Ballina where the Independent candidate, with the support of the Mayo Reform Movement, outlined his policies.

The Europeans are all over for the big chat, however Brian Cowen still maintains that they are not here to discuss a “bailout” for our country.

The Fianna Fail-led government has effectively doubled the national debt at the stroke of a pen and its tunnel vision of pursuing the line that NAMA is the only show in town has had a similar financial impact on the economy to adding €50k to the mortgage of every single family in this country, Fine Gael Senator, John Paul Phelan, has said.

The latest redundancies figures, which have reached a staggering 335 a day, have been described as ‘dire’ by ISME, the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association.

Kilkenny City Labour Party candidate, Sean Butler, called upon the Government to link the need for banks to show flexibility on fixed rate mortgages to further bailout funding for the banking sector.

Beverley Flynn TD has accused Permanent TSB of “outrageous contempt” for the Irish taxpayer by its decision to increase mortgage rates. The Mayo TD said it was a scandal that an institution which was saved from collapse by the taxpayer could so readily turn around and bite the hand that feeds it.