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Property owners who are anxious to lease out vacant premises have been warned by a Mayo TD to be wary of the types of businesses approaching them. This comes as head shops, which sell legal drugs which enable people to get highs without breaking the law, are cropping up all over the country, including in Castlebar and Ballina.

A selection of Carlow’s u12 Academy have just returned from a very successful trip to Sweden, where they finished second in the 2008 Orebro Cup. This year’s tournament in Orebro was one of the largest to date, with over four hundred teams from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Ireland taking part.

JAPANESE METAL, Swedish fun, English cool, and Irish brilliance are on the cards over the next few months with a host of brilliant acts set to play the Róisín Dubh.

Business lobby groups have welcomed the .5 per cent reduction in interest rates announced on Wednesday by the European Central Bank (ECB) and have demanded that the full benefit be passed on immediately by the banks.

A pioneering language project, whereby people volunteer their time to teach conversational English to new migrants in their community, is looking to establish centres throughout County Westmeath.

Ireland and Luxembourg have the longest working week among 'old' Europe with an average of 39 hours while the French have the shortest at 35, Eurofound's European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) said today.

GALWAY’S FAKE Dog Films have just made a music video for ‘Distance’, a new single from the Canadian all-girl band Vancougar.

EMANUEL LUNDGREN had enough of singing sad songs. It was time to get happy and spread the good vibes. He called some friends and asked them to pop along to sing on some new songs he had written. Emanuel had no idea the phenomenon I’m From Barcelona was to become.

THEY NAMED themselves after a Japanese car. They play rock’n’roll, but also new wave and psychedelica. They’re from New Zealand but strangely don’t follow rugby. They are The Datsuns.

Ireland is almost completely dependent on fossil fuels. How vulnerable does that make our transport system and economy as a whole? Are biofuels really the way to ensure a sustainable transport system?