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The 37th Kilkenny Arts Festival programme is set to entice thousands of people to the city over the next 10 days with a line-up that will challenge all of the senses.

Harmful trade union practices almost prevented the film The Guards from being made in Galway, but such practices must not be allowed continue as they could undermine film making in Ireland.

Galway’s arts community was out in force on Monday evening at the Radisson Hotel to celebrate the launch of the 33rd Galway Arts Festival, which will be weaving its distinctive spell over the city and surrounding regions from now until July 25.

Last week I mentioned Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport. To be honest, if I’d been asked in a pub quiz what was Mary Hanafin the minister for I wouldn’t have had a clue. Thanks to Google the information was readily available.

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring proposed at the Westport Joint Policing Committee on Monday that the JPC should write to Minister Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in relation to the rent supplement scheme and recommend that the HSE will not provide rent supplement for people who are not on the local authority housing list or who have not had police checks.

I wrote recently of the urgent need for competence in Government. Commercial competence gained through experience at the coalface is essential to successfully negotiate the current economic challenges. In any major public organisation the people at the helm are appointed on ability gained through experience of working at a high level in business.

Minister Mary Hanafin is wasting millions of euro every year by leaving people for long periods on a short-term rent supplement scheme, Fine Gael spokesperson Michael Ring TD has revealed.

Thousands of men and women between the ages of 18 and 25, who are signing on the Live Register, are to be targeted in an effort to encourage them to gain additional skills and qualifications under the Back to Education Allowance Scheme.

Figures obtained by the Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, confirm the recession is impacting on the housing sector with more state aid going to home loan payments.

Five new jobs have been created at the Department of Social and Family Affairs office in the city to help deal with the increased numbers of unemployed in Galway.