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More than 5,000 people in Galway county have signed on to the Live Register since October 2007 according to new reports released last week by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Mayor Padraig Conneely has hit out at the sale of replica guns in Galway city, claiming it “sends out the wrong message” and could lead to an increase in crime in the city.

Westport Sinn Féin Town Councillor Dave Keating has called on the government to introduce a back to education scheme for young construction workers.

According to the Central Statistics Office farmers incomes have fallen by over 4 per cent during the year ending last September.

Martin Concannon will stand for Sinn Féin in Galway City East at the local elections in June and wants local government and how it operates to be “brought into the 21st century”.

Commenting on figures released by the Central Statistics Office on broadband connection, Sinn Féin candidate for the Ballyragget Electoral Area, Ray Quinlan has said that the latest CSO data only serves to highlight the continued failure of the Government’s broadband strategy.

Over two and half times as many penalty points were issued to men as to women in Westmeath last year, new figures have revealed.

Westport is feeling the recession like the rest of Ireland but an article in last Friday's Irish Independent drew “an inaccurately dire picture of Westport's economic status” said Labour's Keith Martin, who is also a member of Westport’s Job Creation Taskforce.

Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny TD is disappointed that the live register has almost doubled for those under 25 years of age in Co Mayo. The increase from December 2007 to December 2008 is 97.6 per cent, jumping from 929 people to 1,836 people.

The jobless figures for Kilkenny are due to be released by the Central Statistics Office this morning (Friday) and once again it is expected that it will be a bleak outlook for Kilkenny.