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Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

Political representatives from local and regional governments from across the 27 Member States of the European Union will gather in Athlone’s Sheraton Hotel on September 29-30 for a major conference, to discuss the problems that SMEs are facing and how to help these businesses grow and create jobs.

The announcement by the Government that it will guarantee all money saved with an Irish institution for two years has enticed overseas investors to withdraw their money fropm their own countries and put into the named Irish banks and institutions.

The Equality Authority previously published a background paper on gender stereotyping in the marketing of goods to children. This publication highlighted how girls are portrayed as dependent, passive and nurturing in these advertisements and how boys are portrayed as independent, aggressive, and active.

Beverley Flynn, Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo and member of the sub-committee on Ireland’s future in the EU, raised her concerns to Mr John Bruton about the development of a two-tiered approach to Europe following Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.

Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

A new EU-wide survey reveals that after the Finns and the Dutch, the Irish find it easiest to combine work and family life.

Last week the Taoiseach and I met for two days with EU leaders in Brussels. We discussed a series of highly significant issues for Galway, for Ireland and the European Union. These included climate change, an EU-wide economic stimulus package worth some €200 billion and the future of the Lisbon Treaty.

The delay in providing much-needed water and sewerage schemes in Mayo due to the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) could soon be the subject of an investigation by the European Commission following a recent meeting between Labour's Councillor Keith Martin and Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa.

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen is an embattled man. He leads a fiercely unpopular Government, which expects a kicking in tomorrow’s election, and is presiding over the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Yet he is confident that on the economy he is “doing the right thing” that will lead to Ireland’s recovery.