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€27 million ESB project under way

There is little else to speak of at the moment other than the local and European elections that are taking place this day next week and I think more than anyone else - the candidates want this day to come so that they can get on with their lives one way or another.

Westport has one of the smallest fields running in the county for the June 5 election, with eight candidates putting their hats in the ring for the four seats. The major shift on the political landscape from the last local elections is the absence of one Frank Chambers from the ticket. The Newport based auctioneer has been a mainstay of politics in this area for a number of years, but with the redrawing of the boundaries seeing half the town of Newport being given over to Belmullet, Chambers decided to step away from the political circle. That leaves the three sitting councillors, Margaret Adams, Austin Francis O’Malley and John O’Malley, fighting it out with five others for the seats. The other declarations for the election are Caroline Nevin (Fianna Fáil), Peter Flynn (Fine Gael), Keith Martin (Labour), Dave Keating (Sinn Féin) and independent candidate Andy Wilson.

The accident and emergency department at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny is safe according to local Fianna Fail Councillor John Coonan, who is also a member of the HSE South.

With just four seats in what has been traditionally a five seater area, there was always going to be a fall out in Thomastown.

Kilkenny city bucked the national trend on several occasions over election weekend but no occasion was more obvious than the performance of Fianna Fail in the borough council election.

A local city councillor is calling for the resignation of Health Minister Mary Harney in the wake of recent reports that further budgetary cutbacks would result in the loss of 60 beds, 126 staff and two theatres at University Hospital Galway.

The award-winning actress and director Anjelica Huston, star of films such as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Addams Family, and The Witches, will be the guest of honour at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh, which runs from July 7 to 12.

There was good news this week for Mayo’s two largest towns with Ballina and Castlebar maintaining their Clean to European Norms status. The Irish Business Against Litter league published its first results of 2009 which saw Ballina and Castlebar in 38th and 40th place respectively out of 60 towns surveyed.

Sr Stanislaus Kennedy who campaigns for social justice has apologised to children who were abused while under the care of the Sisters of Charity who ran two Kilkenny-based institutions named in the recently published Ryan Report.