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The Government’s lack of a jobs and stimulus package has never looked more damaging for Carlow/Kilkenny, according to Deputy Phil Hogan following the publication of the latest live register figures which show that the dole numbers in the constituency are now at 14,448.

A total of 6,589 training places have been created around the country under the Government‘s Labour Activation Fund, according to Minister for Labour Affairs and local Fianna Fáil TD, Dara Calleary.

A total of 6,589 training places have been created around the country under the Government‘s Labour Activation Fund, according to Minister for Labour Affairs and local Fianna Fáil TD, Dara Calleary.

Unemployment figures have dropped in Westmeath during the early months of this year, the latest Live Register figures from the Central Statistics Office have revealed.

One hundred and eleven people dropped off the live register in the county last month, with 13,046 signing on in March 2010 in comparison to 13,157 in February 2010.

Teaching business in 1970: A farmer sells a truckload of turnips for €100.

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.

Fitness classes for the unemployed continue every Tuesday at 11am in Ballina Community Sports Centre, Cathedral Road, Ballina.

After the success of Accidental Death Of An Anarchist in December, Devious Theatre are following it up with the next instalment of their Dario Fo Season, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!. The play was written by the Nobel Prize winning playwright in 1974 after he became inspired by the self reduction movement which saw working class Italian women take what they wanted from supermarkets only paying for what they could afford.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane is calling for the immediate intervention of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to address the plight of families who are unemployed but cannot avail of social welfare entitlements. She insists that people who were self employed, but now have no work, are entitled to the support and protection of the State.