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A north Kilkenny councillor has called for Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to attract a high-tech manufacturing facility to Castlecomer.

Ballinrobe Community School will hold an open meeting on Monday March 9 where the senior cycle options offered by the school will be discussed.

The African country of Ethiopia consistently ranks among the poorest in the world. Since 1984, when pictures of desperate famine raced around the world, the country has become a byword for poverty. But when journalist Liam Horan visited recently with Irish humanitarian agency Self Help Africa, he was pleasantly surprised to find many signs of progress. Here he focuses on the work of the agency as it tries to bring about improvements in the lives of people accustomed to living on the edge.

A Department of Education funded project on positive school behaviour was recently launched by the NBSS, the body given responsibility to improve discipline in our schools. Only seven schools in the country have been chosen to take part in this project, and Ballinrobe Community School is the only one in Connacht to have been selected.

Twenty-five primary and secondary schools in Kilkenny have been approved for funding under the Summer Works Scheme for 2009, according to Bobby Aylward, TD.

On Thursday April 23 the Mayo Male Voice Choir and Ballinrobe native tenor Sean Costello are joining forces to stage a very special concert in Ballinrobe Community School. The choir has just performed its Spring Concert over two nights, playing to packed houses in the Linenhall Theatre Castlebar.