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Over 8,000 people in Kilkenny are paying too much for car insurance as a new survey dispels the myth that going direct is cheaper.

What a week it’s been.

City Limits has agreed sponsorship and partnership agreements with the students union of GMIT and Corinthians RFC underage for the forthcoming year.

Joe Naughton of Era Oates Auctioneers has reported a significant increase in the number of viewers of properties in January, particularly from first time buyers.  

Labour Party candidate for Kilkenny City, Sean Butler, has accused the government of engaging in the old tactic of divide and rule as a means of distracting people's attention from the huge increase in the unemployment levels within Kilkenny.

A Ballyhaunis Loyalty Reward Scheme will take place at Ballyhaunis Credit Union building today (Friday October 23) from 11am to 2pm.

Now you can sleep better at night because a2z financial services has just the thing - redundancy cover.

Personal Tax Matters

Tax on second homes which was introduced in the April Budget has raised more than €51 million nationally with €1,581,560 raised for Mayo County Council, as reported in this week’s Irish Times.

Sinn Féin County Councillor Gerry Murray has condemned the introduction of the pension levy which he claims puts the burden of Ireland’s public finances on low and medium income public workers and lets the oil and gas companies off the hook once again. He described the Government’s spin doctors as shameful in their “pathetic attempt to portray and blame public sector workers as being exclusively responsible for the current economic downturn”. Cllr Murray challenged Fianna Fáil on the fairness of the public service pension levy noting that the “sliding scale in the levy discriminates against the lower paid while the oil and gas multi-nationals go untouched.”