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Dara Calleary’s rise through the political ranks continued apace this week with the announcement that he has been appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, with special responsibility for Labour Affairs. Calleary, who was elected to the Dáil for the first time at the last general election, has become the first junior minster to be appointed from the county since Tom Moffatt lost his Dáil seat as a sitting junior minister with responsibility for health in the 2002 general election.

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.

A County Dublin food company has become the first in Ireland to set out to power 100 percent of its production using green energy. Country Crest, based in Lusk and owned by brothers, Michael and Gabriel Hoey, has invested €1.5 million in a state-of-the-art wind turbine which commenced powering the plant during a recent visit by Deputy John Gormley, Minister for the Environment.

Joe Malone, ex-army man, youth worker, and wannabe public representative, is very clear on one thing — if he gets elected to Kilkenny Borough Council as planned, things will change and he intends to see to this personally.

Coláiste Muire, Tourmakeady, is to benefit from a new science laboratory now that the Department of Education and Science has agreed to provide funding to the school.

In 2001, the Republic of Ireland played Holland in a do or die World Cup football match at Lansdowne Road.

Longford/ Westmeath Fine Gael Deputy James Bannon has welcomed the announcement that seven Border, Midlands and West (BMW) region educational institutions are to combine their strengths under Líonra, the education network.

Fifty seven Mayo schools require some form of building works, it has been revealed this week. Fifty two of those schools are in pre-architectural planning and only five schools are at the stage of architectural planning.

Outspoken Kilkenny Fianna Fail deputy John McGuinness has said that he is in agreement with the centralisation of the local authorities of Carlow Kilkenny.