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The number of patients on trolleys at University Hospital Galway’s emergency department rocketed by almost 60 per cent last year.

Jim Higgins FG MEP for Ireland North West was today re-elected to the prestigious position of Quaestor of the European Parliament.

Former Dalton Park resident Terry McMahon will take his place alongside Fatal Attraction’s Glenn Close and Ocean’s Eleven’s Don Cheadle in the National Convention Centre on February 11, after his film Charlie Casanova was nominated for four Irish Film and Television Awards this week.

A number of Kilkenny’s borough councillors have expressed serious misgivings over the ongoing roadworks taking place on College Road in the city.

Kilkenny Labour TD Ann Phelan has defended her party’s role in this week’s austerity budget, insisting that while cuts to welfare and austerity measures are not ideal, they are not contrary to the Labour ethos.

When Sheer Bliss launched in Cong in recent months it provided the town with its first beauty salon, making it easier for visitors and residents of this picturesque area to get their beauty treatments done locally. Tracey Burke, the lady behind the venture, is now preparing for the upcoming Christmas party season when demand for her beauty services will no doubt be in demand.

On Halloween night this week, Young Irish Film Makers held the premier of their latest summer production, First Confession, in Kilkenny’s Set Theatre.

He may have been immortalised as being ‘rocking in the Dáil for us’ by The Saw Doctors, but come the near future the Tuam troubadours may have to do a new version to have him ‘rocking in the Áras for us’ if Michael D Higgins achieves his goal and becomes the ninth resident of Ireland. The 70-year-old former TD and minister for arts, culture and Gaeltacht is currently out on the campaign trail pushing his vision for the presidency of the State and the future of the country.

Tony Óg Regan has been around long enough to know a team is only as good as its last game and the only result that matters is the next one. For Galway that means defeating Waterford in next Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter final at Semple Stadium and reaching the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2005.

Independent presidential hopeful, Sean Gallagher, was in Kilkenny this week, continuing his ‘listening tour’ of the country as part of his campaign for the Aras.