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Galway City and County Councils are to get a helping hand in cleaning up litter black spots and tackling graffiti in key tourist areas during the summer months with more than €100,000 in Government funding being allocated.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Mícheál Martin TD will be the special guest of the Fianna Fáil organisation in Castlebar for a gala function on Friday April 23.

Dreamstuff Youth Theatre has staged more than 100 plays in the Watergate Theatre (well, actually 18, but who’s counting?) since they were founded in 2001AD. Now they’re back with their 101st production (or 19th production, depending on which calendar you’re using) called The Mouse That Roared and it’s almost the funniest play ever staged in the Watergate.

A €25 product which was bought in a headshop in Castlebar has been found to cause behavioural excitement.

Speaking after the launch of Sinn Fein’s Solution to Youth Unemployment local Sinn Fein councillor Kathleen Funchion said we need to deal with the jobs crisis before we see a repeat of the 80s when thousands of young people were forced to emigrate, taking their skills and ideas with them.

Not a week seems to go without some political controversy or other hitting our headlines and this week is no different.

Local TD Denis Naughten has again questioned the Taoiseach on the Government’s inaction in addressing the serious safety concerns surrounding the operation of head shops.

You know that when the depiction of Tony Killeen and Pat Carey are presented as the bright new hopes for any project, that there is bound to be a certain amount of disappointment, but the Government reshuffle that was presented to us this week as the beginning of a new era leaves us distinctly underwhelmed. Competent ministers they may well be, but the grounds for their promotion are based more on loyalty rather than any any great aptitude for the job in hand.

The Register of Interests of members of Dáil Éireann from January to the end of 2009 published this week shows that two Mayo TDs have no other sources of income, while Ballina TD Dara Calleary and Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony have rental incomes supporting their TD salary and the leader of the Fine Gael party Enda Kenny TD has been given memberships of three golf clubs.

”It's not easy being green.