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Ireland's north and west MEPs have warmly welcomed the decision by the European Commission to allocate €51 million of EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid for retraining laid-off Irish construction industry workers.

Michael Ring, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, has welcomed the announcement by his colleague Minister of State Alan Kelly that approval has been given for €116,000 in funding. This money will allow for the provision of some four kilometres of cycle lanes, 376 metres of footpaths, and 12 bike parking spaces in Castlebar.

The Fine Gael Parliamentary Party will hold its autumn ‘think-in’ in Galway next month.

Irish presidential hopeful Michael D Higgins visited Kilkenny city last week, as he prepared to address the annual opening of the Labour Party’s Tom Johnson Summer School.

Following on from the recent success of Joanne Maloney’s thought-inspiring book Quoted Moments, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has announced that he will officially launch the book on Friday July 8 in the Castlecourt Hotel, Westport, at 8pm.

Castlebar town councillor Harry Barrett has welcomed Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s support of the purchase of the Imperial Hotel in Castlebar by Mayo County Council and Castlebar Town Council.

Enda Kenny can certainly talk the talk — he did so in abundance during the General Election campaign. But now he is proving he can also walk the walk.

It was a case of the pot calling the kettle black in the Dáil this week as the Moriarty Report was finally published and gave a damming account of how Esat Digifone was awarded the country’s second mobile phone licence with the help of former Fine Gael TD Michael Lowry.

US President Barack Obama has confirmed to Taoiseach Enda Kenny, at a St Patrick’s Day reception in the White House, that he is to visit Ireland in May and it is hoped that he will come west as part of that trip. Former US President John F Kennedy visited Galway during his reign in office in 1963 and Galway City councillor Padraig Conneely extended the same invitation to President Obama during a visit to the US in 2009.

Despite an absolute wipeout of the Fianna Fáil party on a national level, and Mayo only returning one Fianna Fáil TD to the 31st Dáil, there still exists a core Fianna Fáil vote in Mayo.