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Sinn Féin’s Athlone representative, Padraig Hegarty, is working with his party colleague, Cllr. Sorca Clarke, to address a number of issues that are impacting on the lives of people living in St Mary’s Place and Bower View in the town.

Local Fianna Fáil Councillor Aengus O’Rourke has said that Ireland’s competitiveness is under attack by rising energy costs.

Both purchasers and vendors often say the most frustrating thing when buying or selling a property is the amount of time it takes after the property is sale agreed for the sale of a property to close.

The award winning residential sales team in DNG Maxwell Heaslip & Leonard have just been appointed the selling agents for one of the most impressive family homes to come to the open market in the Knocknacarra area in recent times. The firm’s residential sales team have just launched No 11 Clybaun Heights, just off the Shangort Road, to the market and are hugely excited about the prospects for this outstanding detached residence.

The ACCA diploma in accountancy and business course is now starting in the Western Management Centre. Classes take place over two evenings per week from September 2018 to May 2019. In that time, participants can gain an international qualification, plus it offers a pathway into further studies with students having the opportunity to transfer into the ACCA professional route.

On August 28, the St Vincent de Paul reported a 20 per cent increase in calls for “back to school help”. The same day, the man presiding over the housing crisis, Minister Eoghan Murphy, announced the election date for the most lucrative Irish political post - the presidency - with a salary of €325,507 plus untold expenses.

The Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, TD, has launched a new policy aimed at developing the skills of people in employment.

Commenting on the CSO Residential Property Price Index showing a slowing of house price inflation, IPAV, the Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers, said the figures indicate that market forces are working, despite the shortage of homes.

More than half of all mortgage holders in Leinster say that they were not informed by their banks that it was possible to take out mortgage protection cover with a different provider to the bank with whom they secured their mortgage.

The Credit Union Art Competition is back and this year’s theme is The Force of Nature. The theme has been designed in an effort to get participants ‘thinking green’ by depicting their visions of a clean pollution and litter-free environment while also imagining the different forces of nature within the world.