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Éamon Ó Cuív has rubbished suggestions that he ever threatened to resign his post as Fianna Fáil deputy leader over the party’s stance on the presidential election.

Former Retreat Road resident and Marist past pupil Brian Lenihan, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer last Friday after an 18-month battle while carrying out his duties as Minister for Finance, was buried this week at St David’s cemetery in Kilsallaghan, north county Dublin, amid a tsunami of tributes from a grateful nation.

Kilkenny Green Party Councillor Malcolm Noonan is to have some competition in his contest for the leadership of the Green Party it would appear.

A number of farmers in Kilkenny have been served with notice under section 9 of the litter pollution act informing that them unless they have cleared up rubbish on their land within 21 days, fines of up to €130,000 may be issued.

Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Joan Burton this week, told the Kilkenny Advertiser that she didn’t expect to see Kilkenny Labour candidate Ann Phelan battling it out for the last seat as she believes that Cllr Phelan will be elected well before that.

Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White, has said that although the Green’s are polling drastically in recent political opinion polls, she hopes that she will do well on election day and remain on as a TD for Carlow Kilkenny.

Green Party deputy leader Mary White TD has called on RTÉ and other broadcasters to schedule debates between leading female representatives of political parties during the forthcoming election campaign.

With the announcement of Deputy Leader of the Fianna Fail party imminent, Kilkenny Fianna Fail Deputy John McGuinness has said that he has no designs on the role of Deputy Leader however, he said he would gladly take the position if offered it.

Green Party Deputy Leader Mary White has welcomed Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s announcement that he is not proceeding with bringing forward the ‘pay and file’ deadline for self-employed people.

When the nominations were put forward for the leader of Fianna Fáil this week, Mayo TD and Minister of State Dep Dara Calleary was the one who proposed Dep Mícheál Martin for the leadership of the party. This has led to speculation that the first term deputy could be named as the deputy leader of the party when Martin makes his decision. However the Ballina native told the Mayo Advertiser that he has not thought about that position at all.