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The Labour Party’s priority is to restore the economic fortunes of the country and to get people back to work, that is according to Galway East TD Colm Keaveney.

THE SAW Doctors’ Leo Moran, journalist Olaf Tyaransen, writer Conor Montague, and singer-songwriter Seamus Ruttledge, will gather in the Róisín Dubh for a Cúirt event.

Ireland’s newest and most innovative online TV channel, mayotv.ie was endorsed by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny this week in the USA during his official visit to America for the St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Speaking during his trip to Chicago, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny stated that mayotv.ie and now their new national online platform irishtv.ie has its finger on the pulse of new media at home and abroad. “Mayotv.ie and irishtv.ie has opened up an entirely new international TV market and I can see a huge demand for this service. It is a vital link for the Irish diaspora and I am delighted to launch their new website,” stated An Taoiseach in Chicago.

Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh is hoping the public will see a lot less of him this year as he prepares to take on one of his biggest challenges yet – Slimathon Mhic Dara.

MEP for Ireland East Nessa Childers criticised Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan’s recent policy shift on climate change, whereby the Government will now concentrate on ‘other initiatives’ before considering legislation.

Rugby has taken centre stage in Ireland recently with the exploits of the Irish team at the World Cup in New Zealand, and for those who would like a permanent reminder of the intensity of the game, a special John Behan sculpture will be auctioned this weekend.

MEXICAN FOLK band Tacumba, who worked with The Chieftains on their San Patricios album, play The Crane on Tuesday at 8pm.

This week you could not avoid the extensive television coverage that has been given to the weekend’s anniversary of the devastating September 11 2001 attack on New York’s Twin Towers.

JOHN CONNOLLY, one of Ireland’s leading crime writers, is coming to Portumna on Thursday May 5 at 7.30pm in The Shannon Oaks Hotel.

The original Hanna and her sisters were not the characters created by Woody Allen for his classic 1986 film, but the Sheehy Skeffingtons, who were prominent figures in Irish history.