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When the great Chinese philosopher Hu Flung Dung penned the immortal line “may ye live in interesting times,” surely he was thinking about days such as this. Days when the news brings unprecedented details of the unthinkable happening to all the institutions that we all previously thought were solid. Days when the squeaky bum times of footballing parlance have well and truly been transferred to politics.

Running for the local elections, Sean Butler is a new candidate seeking a Labour Party seat on Kilkenny Borough Council. He has a tough job to contend with as there are already three sitting Labour Party councillors who are putting up a big fight to retain their seats.

Three East Galway organisations will benefit from funding under the Government’s Programme of Grants for Community and Voluntary Organisations.

An invitation for Dail Eireann to come and sit in Kilkenny during the Kilkenny 400 celebrations has been turned down.

For what seems like forever now, there’s been nothing but misery wherever we turned. Job losses, out of control finances, political ineptitude, murder again in Northern Ireland and public unrest. And then all of a sudden, the sun comes out on Patrick’s Day, a decent Kilkenny parade, two Offaly men share some weed in the White House and a feelgood factor returns to the Emerald Isle, begorragh!

There are difficulties on the doorsteps for Fianna Fail councillors these days and I suppose this does not come as a surprise to readers, as there are many people out there with grievances against the party for the manner in which they are seen to have managed the economy.

Grassroots is watching the political temperature rise in the past few months. And no it is not about the local elections, its about the impotent rage that many people feel at their lives and the lives of those close to them being turned upside down.

A 007 Casino Royale night, to leave Galwegians shaken, not stirred, as well as raising money for Cope, is taking place in the Dail Bar on Wednesday September 16.

The Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Commerce John McGuinness has resigned his position along with his junior ministerial colleagues in a bid to create a more cost-effective Oireachtas during the recession.

Green party Mayor Malcolm Noonan has expressed his satisfaction at the resignation of the Ceann Comhairle John O’ Donoghue and while doing so he called for a cap on expenses paid to politicians and on their salaries.