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Company Sergeant Bernard Donovan from Co Kilkenny, who served with the EU-led Chad mission, was one of the thousands of Irish peacekeepers lauded by the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon during his recent visit to Ireland.

Last week’s EPA report on water quality confirmed the “excellent” quality of Westmeath’s water supplies, according to county manager Dan McLoughlin.

Troops from Custume Barracks, Athlone and Columb Barracks. Mullingar are among over 400 troops preparing to be deployed to Chad.

Attitudes to money, budgeting, and dealing with debt were just some of the topics discussed by Kilkenny youngsters who gathered last weekend at the YouthBank Moneysense workshops at the National College of Ireland.

Green Party candidate for Westport Town Council Fergus McAllister said that announcements this week of over 400 green jobs in the west should be a wake-up call to Westport that it must get serious about targeting green collar jobs if it wants to realistically overcome the present crisis and be competitive into the future.

A young Galway woman died of natural causes while holidaying in Cameroon, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

For two weeks Valerie McEllin, a native of Kiltimagh, found herself digging trenches, plastering walls, and carrying boulders. With worn-in jeans and muddy boots, Valerie spent her holiday volunteering to build homes for underprivileged families and fell in love with beautiful Costa Rica.

Westmeath’s water treatment systems have been criticised in a new report, which reveals that the county recorded a rate of 62 per cent failure to meet EU standards in the period 2006/7.

To ensure Galway’s drinking water supplies are of the highest quality, the county’s two local authorities will have to publish the results of their drinking water sampling programmes online.

Michael Corbett has not walked since a car accident left him a quadriplegic in 1975. However, this did not stop the man from Newport from wishing to climb one of his county’s highest peaks — Croagh Patrick.