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Labour Party candidate for Kilkenny City, Sean Butler, has accused the government of engaging in the old tactic of divide and rule as a means of distracting people's attention from the huge increase in the unemployment levels within Kilkenny.

There will be a special treat for children and parents on Friday 20 and Tuesday, February 24 when MacDonagh Junction hosts Odlums pancake parties. The pancake days are part of a series of midterm events for children taking place at the centre.

Kilkenny provided three of the 12 high-achieving first year students who received the Director’s Merit Prize at Waterford Institute of Technology this week.

The creation of three new jobs and use of a brand new van with a logo are just two of the exciting projects under way by Athlone Tidy Towns Committee, which held its AGM on Tuesday this week.

A ‘golden circle’ of Ireland’s mega-rich step in, at no cost to them, and borrow money from Anglo-Irish to prop up the bank’s share price? It surely wouldn’t happen in a banana republic! But let’s not insult the bananas! And the Taoiseach, who was the Minister for Finance at the time, tells us he knew nothing of the illegal operation even though he has admitted he knew there was a problem with Sean Quinn’s share-holding? Does he think we are all bananas? And, all the time this fiasco is ruining our international credibility when we need it most to borrow from all and sundry just to keep the country above water. Even in Oscar week that’s got to have the makings of a ‘Best Film’ plot!

This Sunday women from across the globe will host a celebration of women and cultures in MacDonagh Junction from 2pm to 5pm to mark International Women’s Day.

At the March monthly meeting of Athlone Town Council, Cllr John Butler put forward a motion to ban all election posters from the town.

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Could you be the face of the south-east and a supermodel of the future? Are you model material ready to make a big impression on the catwalk?

Crafts people from Kilkenny and the surrounding region will be taking centre stage at MacDonagh Junction in a new series of monthly craft fairs.