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So have you calculated yet how much worse off you are going to be as a result of Budget 2009? Nobody, least of all the most vulnerable in society, has been spared by Brian Lenihan’s first attempt. Lenihan’s levy will affect us all, but the most vulnerable, the lowest income earners in Ireland, will be hit hard.

Carlow’s local councillors have come out in force to support pensioners in their fight against medical card means testing.

Nurses from Kilkenny travelling to Australia this year are being urged to avail of interviews taking place in the county early next month. ICE Group has been appointed by the New South Wales Department of Health to recruit 150 Irish registered psychiatric nurses for a new forensic hospital in Sydney.

A controversial "party pill" that was the reason behind a series of raids nationwide last week, is still being sold in Head shops across the city, despite protest from Government officials and members of the public.

”Given the current economic situation there is clearly a case for a reduction in the number of quango bodies, particularly if significant financial reinvestment in front-line services can be made as a result,” stated councillor Marie Fitzpatrick.

Elderly Galwegians on low incomes are living in “damp and dangerous accommodation” because approved funding for essential repairs is not being released by the Department of Health.

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At the age of 25 Mary Harney became the youngest senator in the Seanad at the invitation of the then taoiseach Jack Lynch.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has hit out at the local health authority accusing it of failing to put a contingency plan in place in Clifden to dispense medication under the State run Drug Scheme.

A total of 22 prosecutions have been brought so far this year for breaches of the smoking ban, the Fine Gael Spokesperson for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, has learned.