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More than 100 delegates gathered at The Merry Monk in Ballina on Monday night as local Minister of State Dara Calleary received the unanimous backing of the Fianna Fáil Tír Amhalgaidh (Ballina Area) Comhairle Cheantair to contest the forthcoming General Election.

Local Fine Gael TD Denis Naughten has accused the Government of playing politics with the education of children after it revealed that the Cloonakilla NS project is not a priority within the Department of Education because it is not considered to be in a rapidly developing area.

The workers of Galmoy mine in north Kilkenny were given the shocking news on Friday last, that their jobs were not safe and the mine is to shut down on a phased basis, over the next two years from December.

A north Kilkenny councillor has called for Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to attract a high-tech manufacturing facility to Castlecomer.

There are difficulties on the doorsteps for Fianna Fail councillors these days and I suppose this does not come as a surprise to readers, as there are many people out there with grievances against the party for the manner in which they are seen to have managed the economy.

Joey O’ Hanrahan has finally decided to follow his heart and put himself forward for election for Kilkenny County Council although he has a verbal pre-nup promising his wife that he would never do it!

Michael Finneran, TD, Government Deputy for Roscommon / South Leitrim and Minister for Housing and Local Services, this week [November 23] expressed his thanks to the county council staff for their work in dealing with flooding issues in the local counties during the past week.