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The Lisbon Treaty bill has been published and the Lisbon II referendum is set for Friday October 2. To start the debate in Athlone, the chamber has organised an information evening on Wednesday August 26 at 6pm in the Radisson Hotel in Athlone, with expert speakers to talk from their differing perspectives on the Lisbon agenda.

Westmeath competitor Audrey Murphy was among the big winners at this year’s Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann which took place in Tullamore last week.

The countdown is on to the 2009 Impact Media Elevate Award, which this year offers a launch pad of €120,000 to two of the best business start-ups.

“Horrendous” is how the chairman of the HSE West’s regional health forum has described the fact that almost 90 beds have now been closed in local public hospitals due to budgetary cutbacks.

“I’D MUCH rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.”

Simon McKiernan, the long standing mayoral secretary in City Hall, who has served the mayors of the city for the past 23 years, will retire tomorrow.

Let’s face it dear reader, this is the bleakest part of the year. Evenings getting ever shorter, leaves falling faster than property prices and rain bucketing down all do little to warm the heartstrings. Not to mention that with very few matches between now and next February there’ll be very little for us hurlers on the ditch to talk about over the next few months. Thankfully Garrycastle, Tubberclair, and Caulry all have Leinster club matches coming up and hopefully one or all of them can get on a run and give a timely boost to football in the county. Otherwise we’ll only have Donal Og’s personal life or Tadhg Kenelly’s ‘revelation’ to discuss and we don’t want that now do we?

The Map Store, Castlebar, has moved premises to a spacious, state of the art, office above Property Partner Durcan auctioneers, Chapel Street, Castlebar.

It’s a case of deja vu in this year’s county senior hurling final. Ballyhale Shamrocks and James Stephens will take to Nowlan Park on Sunday to contest the highly anticipated St Canice’s Credit Union Hurling final.

More than 600 homes in Galway are set to receive free smoke alarms in this year’s Community Smoke Alarm Scheme.