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Kilkenny will be the venue for an action-packed schedule of world-class talent in music, theatre, craft, dance and literature for this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival, which runs from August 5 to 14.

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The latest IrishJobs.ie index has revealed a continued upward trend at the beginning of 2011. The expanded quarterly IrishJobs.ie report is presented by economist Dr Stephen Kinsella and measures jobs advertised online across the main recruitment websites in Ireland. Figures released for Q1 2011 also showed an increase in salary expectations by an average of €3,000 relative to this time last year, even as unemployment in Ireland reached 14.7 per cent.

Nationwide rents rose by half a per cent (0.5 per cent) on average in the first three months of 2011, according to the latest report published by the property website, Daft.ie. The average rent nationwide now stands at €825, 25 per cent below the 2007 peak.

The old expression “laughing all the way to the bank” seems to be in fact the reverse in this country, as unbelievably those walking away from the banks are laughing—another ‘fat cat’ has walked away from a financial mess with an astonishing €3 million golden handshake. This is yet another farcical situation, which has sparked public outrage, particularly as the State are pumping billions into bailing out the banks; thousands of jobs in AIB are under threat and a credit rating of ‘junk status’ has been given to our financial institutions.

Asking prices for residential property in Kilkenny fell by an average of 3.4 per cent during the first three months of 2011, according to the latest report published by property website Daft.ie.

House prices in Galway city and county are continuing to drop with a fall of almost five per cent in the first three months of this year, according to the latest findings by property website Daft.ie.

Small food businesses in Ireland are continuing to demonstrate strong growth both on the domestic and export markets, according to new figures released by Bord Bia this week. Bord Bia works with over 400 small food businesses with an annual turnover of some €400 million, representing an increase in value of seven per cent per year since 2007.

The recently launched National Strategy for Higher Education will “undermine the Irish education system” and make third level available to those who can afford it, says a spokesperson for NUI Galway Students’ Union.

With more and more Irish people removing bank deposits to place money in various saving schemes at home and abroad, the fate of the euro continues to be threatened.