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Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin highlighted that EU regional funding “has been one of the success stories of Europe” in his address to a joint meeting of the Border, Midland and Western (BMW) and the Southern and Eastern (S&E) regional assemblies in Portlaoise on Friday June 22.

Athlone was a science hub yesterday, Thursday March 15, as schoolchildren from across the country congregated at AIT for the national finals of the Primary Science Competition.

Tomás Breathnach was elected chairman of the Association of Irish Regions at its recent annual general meeting. The association comprises the eight regional authorities in the country and the two regional assemblies. Each of these bodies is represented by its chairperson and its director.

In his interesting biography of Eamon de Valera*, Diarmaid Ferriter reports that in December 2000 gardaí seized 24 love letters from de Valera to his young wife Sinéad, which were being advertised for auction by Mealy’s of Castlecomer. It was believed that the letters were stolen in the mid 1970s from the de Valera family home. The owners, who had bought them in England some years previously in an effort to ensure their return to Ireland, were unaware that they had been stolen.

Kilmacow Hospice Support Group would like to acknowledge receipt of €3,790 from the ninth running of the Little South Run which was organised by St Senan’s Athletics Club.

J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics has partnered with local businesses to introduce a new module, Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise, for their final-year Bachelor of Commerce students.

 The new €20m Little Sisters of the Poor care facility for the elderly moved a step closer with the recent official ‘groundbreaking’ ceremony on the site at Ferrybank on the Waterford / Kilkenny border.