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The Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe has officially launched Fianna Fáil’s local election campaign in Co Kilkenny.

A FIRST time candidate in any election has a lot of growing up to do. You have to be a quick learner and have some street smarts. However one thing is that people can’t blame you for wrong decisions in the past. This is to your main advantage.

A new candidate has been chosen to run for the Labour Party in the Callan electoral area for Kilkenny County Council.

Independent candidate for Borough Council local elections Mick Greene has said there will be a further delay in the announcement of An Bord Pleanala's decision in relation to the Kilkenny Central Access Scheme (CAS), formally known as the Kilkenny Inner Relief Road.

Cllr John Connolly and Ollie Crowe are the Fianna Fáil candidates for Galway City Central, a ward which rivals Galway City East for competitiveness and which has been rightly dubbed ‘The Group of Death’. Only one of them will survive the Local Election on June 5.

What is Fianna Fáil doing in Connemara? The fortress of Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív is grinding slowly, very slowly, to making a decision regarding the team that will contest the Local Elections on June 5.

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!

With the Local Elections only a couple of weeks away the candidates in each area are busy on the doorsteps putting themselves in front of the people again. With the redrawing of election boundaries causing consternation in a number of areas with areas swapping from one to another and Ballinrobe being extinguished as an electoral area in its own right, the Swinford area was one of the least affected with the transfer of Aghamore into its area from the newly expanded Claremorris area.

Athlone Town Council Candidate Aengus O’Rourke has launched his new website www.aengusorourke.ie. 

Cllr Noel Frawley is facing an election for the very first time today although he is currently a sitting councillor.