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The applications process for the Springboard initiative, offering free higher education and training for jobseekers, is now underway. In the month since it was launched, there were over 40,000 visitors to the Springboard web-page on www.bluebrick.ie/springboard and over 3,300 applications have been received.

The applications process for the Springboard initiative, offering free higher education and training for jobseekers, is now underway. In the month since it was launched, there were over 40,000 visitors to the Springboard web-page on www.bluebrick.ie/springboard and over 3,300 applications have been received.

A Knockmore man who claimed unemployment assistance while he worked as a lorry driver was before Ballina District Court this week.

The elected members of Ballina Town Council will meet again before approving a new tenant purchase scheme for long standing tenants. The new scheme, which will run hand in hand with the existing scheme, will see tenants who have more than 10 years of tenancy with the local authority get up to a 45 per cent discount on purchasing their home. This new scheme will run alongside the existing scheme from 1995 which saw tenants being able to avail of up to a 30 per cent discount on purchasing their homes.

Dear Editor,

There has been an alarming increase in the number of applications to Kilkenny Local Authorities in search of social housing with the total number of approved applications at 2,220, as of October 8 this year.

Any plans to cut Child Benefit in the December budget are being strongly opposed by children’s rights groups and public representatives.

Well apparently it is not as easy as that and so when the minister for social protection Eamon O Cuiv announced this week that there were plans in the pipeline to get people to work for their dole money in the future — well let’s just say it wasn’t greeted with rapturous applause by one and all.

Fianna Fail TD for Galway West and Minister for Social Protection, Eamon O Cuiv has anounced new proposals which will require 10,000 social welfare claimants to complete community work in return for their social welfare payments.

As the month of September approaches, Cllr Andrew McGuinness is reminding families who may be eligible for the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance that they still have time to apply for the scheme.