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Tanaiste and Minister for Education Mary Coughlan must urgently address the “one size fits all” philosophy that is prominent in Irish schools, says Galway West Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames.

It’s been a busy few weeks. It was always going to heat up in the world of politics at some stage before the local elections, but I thought it might hold off until after Christmas, but recent events have ensured that this will not be the case.

If anyone can talk his way out of a sticky situation, it’s Bobby Aylward.

Local election candidate Sean O’ hArgain is an ambitious man. Already he is a sitting local Labour Party councillor on Kilkenny Borough Council, the principal of the city’s Gaelscoil, a father and husband.

Early school leavers who left without completing their Leaving Certificate are being urged to take part in research into how and why the Irish education system has failed them.

Kilkenny Borough Councillor Sinn Fein’s Kathleen Funchion has said that the Fianna Fáil/Green Government has no mandate to implement the sweeping measures in the McCarthy report.

The Ardilaun Leisure Club is the perfect choice for getting fit for 2009, and should be top of everyone’s list to join, as a New Years Resolution. Now in its tenth year, The Ardilaun Leisure Club goes from strength to strength and offers its members and guests even more facilities and activities from whihc to choose.

A new website - www.screenwest.ie - is being launched this week by the Galway Film Centre as an information portal which seeks to attract film makers and television producers to the west of Ireland.