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Members of Kilkenny County Council have voiced their strong opinions on the new proposed Planning and Development Bill which is currently being considered by the Government.

The 110 workers losing their jobs at Thermo King in Galway and the sheep farmers picketing outside the Department of Agriculture would be much more concerned with their future economic circumstances than with a possible second Lisbon Referendum.

Kilkenny hoteliers have called for urgent action by local authorities in Kilkenny to exercise their powers to establish emergency waiver schemes in respect of local authority rates payable by the seriously wounded hotel and guest house sector.

Such is the degree of confidence that the young Carlow Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan has in his party leader. When speaking to the Kilkenny Advertiser/ Carlow First this week, Senator Phelan spokesperson on enterprise in the Seanad, said that he was extremely confident that the leader of Fine Gael “will be the next Taoiseach and he’ll be damn good too!”

Local Fine Gael senator and party spokesperson on education in the senate Fidelma Healy Eames is urging people to attend a meeting in the city tonight (Thursday) which will highlight what she terms the Government’s “cruel and callous” education cuts in Budget ‘09.

Some 80 Fine Gael supporters gathered recently to celebrate the party’s historic win of five seats by women candidates in the recent local elections for the Kilkenny County Council.

It was expected to be the toughest budget inflicted on Galway city in more than 20 years, however, thanks to an unprecedented cross party effort by all 15 city councillors, Galway was spared the worst in City Hall’s first budget of this current recession.

It would cost Mayo County Council in the region of €1 million a year to cut every hedge on roadsides in the county.

“I believe in the policies and I believe that I can help Castlebar to become a better town.” With the election conventions doing the rounds across all the parties in the different areas in Mayo, one name was more unusual than the others to come out of the nominating stages and on to the ticket. Nigerian native Okay William Kalu got the nod to run on the six person Fine Gael Castlebar Town Council ticket for next June’s elections.

The Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív TD has welcomed the next step in the process of decentralising his Department to Mayo.