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New bye-laws governing parks, sports pitches, playgrounds, and other local authority-owned recreational areas have been approved by the members of Kilkenny County Council.

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.

The anarchist group, the Workers Solidarity Movement, has formed a Galway branch, marking the first official presence of the group in the city.

Irish charity Fighting Blindness seeks trekkers looking for a Latin adventure on a 10-day trek through the Sierra del Escambray in central Cuba. The charity trek from November 18 to 27, begins with a night in Havana and continues at a moderate pace through the mountains to the charming city of Trinidad.

MEP for the North West, Jim Higgins, has welcomed continuing progress by the EU in addressing youth unemployment under its Europe 2020 strategy commitments, but says citizens want to see real results.

A new book on the Irish and Greek economic crisis, co-edited by Galwegian Liam Leonard, and featuring leading economic commentators such as Constantin Gurdgiev and Kieran Allen, has just been published.

The finances of Mayo County Council for the first three months of the year are in line with budget expectations.

Anarchism and Marxism are both strong Left wing approaches to society and politics but the ideologies have never been happy bedfellows.

Loreto Secondary School Kilkenny are the winners of the fifth annual Model EU Council which took place on March 11 in Dublin Castle. Secondary school students from across Ireland role-played as European politicians in a debate on a mock EU directive as Enda Kenny joined EU officials in Brussels this week.

By the time you read this, you may have already been to the polling station and cast your vote, or you could be deciding where to mark that number one on the ballot paper later on today. Are you going to give just one preference or are you going to go right down the ballot paper from one to 15? Will it matter who you give your number two to, or your number five to? The answer is yes it can, so if you do not want someone to get elected, do not give him or her a preference, it may be a long shot but your preference down the list could come into play and help a candidate over the line.