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For the moment Brian Cowen is safe in his position as Taoiseach, but let no one be fooled, he is a dead man walking. He says he is not “on probation” but the only one who believes that is himself.

Funding has been announced this week for works at Gort Community School and St Mary’s National School in Mountbellew.

Local people receiving social welfare payments can now avail of new arrangements which will make it easier for them to return to education, according to Dep Noel Treacy.

The Presentation College in Athenry has received funding to convert a squash court on its grounds into two additional classrooms.

Garbally National School, Menlough, the primary school for the Skehana parish, has been granted funding to provide for additional accommodation.

A new school for Colaiste na Coiribe has been approved for immediate inclusion in the Department of Education’s Capital Programme, and could be completed by 2013.

Galway County Council is to receive further funding of more than €900,000 which will be used to implement flooding mitigation measures, studies, and to address localised flooding problems.

Political anoraks will have enjoyed - and indeed are still enjoying the fallout from - the past month as the first genuinely competitive British general election since 1992 has played out.

Voters elect TDs to legislate on behalf of the State and to advocate for the needs of their constituency, but are we, the taxpayers, getting any value for our vote?

A weary Liam Aylward MEP told the Kilkenny Advertiser yesterday (Thursday) that he had made up his mind days ago to surrender his ministerial pension but that he was not going to be intimidated by the media into making a statement on his decision.