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There were some changes to our local authorities made last weekend following the elections - some self determined while others simply lost their seats.

As we head into St Valentine’s Day many of the city councillors will have their eye on two dates - February 14 and June 5.

Describing the latest unemployment figures for Longford/Westmeath as absolutely shocking, the Labour Party team said that the Government now had to recognise the rise in unemployment as a national crisis and begin to take some effort to stem the job losses and put people back to work.

“Better red than dead” the English philosopher Bertrand Russell used to say, and for the Labour Party - if the recent The Irish Times/TNS MRBI poll is anything to go by - the phrase has never been more apt.

It was a very smart move by Eamon Gilmore to declare himself as a contender for the position of taoiseach. This caught Fine Gael on the hop and led to the largest surge in the opinion polls that Labour has ever had.

Almost 1,000 delegates are expected at the Labour Party 2009 annual conference which will be held in the Mullingar Park Hotel on the last weekend in March.

We’ve heard about politicians fighting for seats in the run up to an election but Kilkenny’s councillors took the meaning of the phrase a step further when a huge dispute erupted after the Fine Gael, Labour, Green and Independent councillors sat in the seats usually sat upon by Fianna Fail members of the Kilkenny County Council this month.

Last weekend’s national Labour Party conference in Mullingar set out its platform for the forthcoming elections.

Last weekend’s national Labour Party conference in Mullingar set out its platform for the forthcoming elections.

Last weekend’s national Labour Party conference in Mullingar set out its platform for the forthcoming elections.