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“Friday 13 was a resounding success for Brian Cowen and for Mullingar,” says Senator Camillus Glynn.

I’ve figured out how Brian Cowen is going to sort out this economic mess. Exercise. It’s proven to relieve stress and help participants maintain focus and lets face it the government could do with some focus at the moment. With an emergency or supplementary budget due on April 7 I propose that Brian and Ireland’s 166 TDs start pounding the streets of Dublin in search of some inspiration.

The Ideas Campaign is a grassroots initiative that is asking ordinary people across Ireland to come up with extraordinary and exciting ideas to boost the economy.

Conor Casby’s nude portraits of Brian Cowen, which have been causing a sensation these last few days, reminded me of a story I once heard about Brendan Behan.

Kilkenny’s former junior minister John McGuinness has pledged that he will not be downtrodden as a result of the Taoiseach’s decision to axe him as Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Enterprise and he added that he would hope to be back in a ministerial role once again in the future.

What a week it’s been for Kilkenny. We have lost our junior minister in one fell swoop and I think the whole county is aghast. Nobody expected it.

Fine Gael European Election candidate for Ireland East Senator John Paul Phelan gave a rousing speech at the launch of his campaign for a seat in Europe on Monday night.

There can be few jobs more unpalatable right now than being a Fianna Fáil election candidate - or even a Fianna Fáil canvasser - in the run up to June 5. The party is facing a drubbing at the polls. And whatever doorstep hostility has been there over the past two weeks, it will be nothing as compared to the anger when next month's pay cheque leaves Sean Citizen with a huge hole in what is available to him to pay his bills.

Cllr Ken Glynn has received definitive confirmation from Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe and An Taoiseach Brian Cowen that the decentralisation of the Department of Education to Mullingar is to go ahead by means of a Public Private Partnership.

Thousands of competitors and their supporters are to descend on Athlone this weekend as the first HSE Community Games national finals to take place in the town are launched.