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Kilkenny Arts Festival can take credit for bringing a minimum of €6million euro in knock-on business to the local economy according to organisers of this year’s event which came to a close last Sunday.

Irish presidential hopeful Michael D Higgins visited Kilkenny city last week, as he prepared to address the annual opening of the Labour Party’s Tom Johnson Summer School.

The IAU Trail World Championships will take place in Connemara tomorrow Saturday July 9. The event will be operated in the area of Connemara National Park and its environs, starting at the world famous Kylemore Abbey and finishing in the nearby village of Letterfrack.

As part of the upcoming Enterprise and Innovation Week in County Roscommon, renowned business and economics writer, Marc Coleman, will launch an important new initiative called Roscommon Innovation House at an event in the Athlone Springs Hotel in Monksland on Thursday May 26.

Presidential hopeful, and one of Ireland’s most famous scholars, Senator David Norris, launched his presidential campaign in Kilkenny last week and his first port of call in the city was to meet fellow young scholars in the Fr McGrath Family Resource Centre.

Mayo businesswoman Lynda Foley of the Harlequin Hotel, Castlebar, Co Mayo, has beaten off stiff competition to win the national Employee Award at the Network Ireland Conference Awards held in Galway over the weekend.