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Fianna Fáil MEP Liam Aylward officially launched the Special Olympics European Parliament Exhibition in Brussels this week.

The parents of a young Mayo woman who tragically lost her life in a car crash were among a small deputation who travelled to Brussels recently with MEP Jim Higgins.

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland, with operations at Ballyragget, County Kilkenny and Virginia, County Cavan, was acknowledged as a leader in energy efficiency by the European Committee of Standardisation (CEN) at the launch of Europe’s newest energy management system, EN 16001, in Brussels last week.

MEP for the North/West region Marian Harkin is calling for a special asthma management programme modelled on a Finnish initiative to be introduced here.

An Irish dealer has scooped the top honour at Toyota’s European Ichiban Customer Satisfaction Awards during a ceremony held last night at the company’s regional headquarters in Brussels. Walsh’s from Kilkenny was recognised for delivering outstanding customer satisfaction, taking into account both sales and after sales performance.

I detect one tiny slice of silver lining on our dark clouds. A recent Red C opinion poll found that 58 per cent of respondents would vote Yes if there was a second Lisbon Treaty held this year.

I detect one tiny slice of silver lining on our dark clouds. A recent Red C opinion poll found that 58 per cent of respondents would vote Yes if there was a second Lisbon Treaty held this year.

I detect one tiny slice of silver lining on our dark clouds. A recent Red C opinion poll found that 58 per cent of respondents would vote Yes if there was a second Lisbon Treaty held this year.

Psychotherapist, former Green Party Councillor for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and former president’s daughter, Nessa Childers may seem like an unlikely character to be running on the Labour Party ticket for Europe, but she is adamant that she should be there.

Eamon de Valera was in Galway on the evening of May 11 1940 engaged in a by-election campaign, when he was told that Germany had invaded Belgium and Holland that morning. He was outraged. Belgium felt that by declaring its neutrality it was protected from Hitler. But it was sadly mistaken. Germany felt threatened (at least it pretended to be), that the Allies may use Belgium as a ‘jumping off’ base to attack her. With terrifying speed and ruthlessness, using new tactics of fighter bombers and tanks, Germany subdued both countries in a matter of days.