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The accident and emergency department at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny is safe according to local Fianna Fail Councillor John Coonan, who is also a member of the HSE South.

Fianna Fail new councillor Joe Malone has embraced his position as Councillor on Kilkenny Borough Council with aplomb.

City councillor Mary Leahy has called for the immediate establishment of an integrated children’s response team for child protection to be made available on a 24 hour seven day week basis.

The figures speak for themselves so let’s see what the figures actually said in the recent local elections to the Galway city and county councils.

The upcoming election is missing the “youth factor”, that’s according to the Galway based national youth organisation Spunout.ie which says that many young people may not even vote tomorrow (Friday).

We’ve heard about politicians fighting for seats in the run up to an election but Kilkenny’s councillors took the meaning of the phrase a step further when a huge dispute erupted after the Fine Gael, Labour, Green and Independent councillors sat in the seats usually sat upon by Fianna Fail members of the Kilkenny County Council this month.

A Labour party candidate for Castlebar Town Council, has hit out at the Government for what she called a callous attitude towards the old and the young. Bernie Courtney said: “I have met many elderly people who are terrified they will lose their medical card. One couple told me they had received a renewal form from the Department of Social Welfare for their medical card. The form is a gross intrusion into the affairs of elderly people who had found great difficulty in completing the forms. This is no way to treat decent people, the backbone of the country over the years,” said Courtney.

Fianna Fail Councillor Joe Malone raised the issue of women and children begging on the streets in Kilkenny in recent times at this month’s meeting of Kilkenny Borough Council.

In a pre-election whistle-stop walk-about of Kilkenny City, Taoiseach Brian Cowen told the Kilkenny Advertiser that St Luke’s Hospital A+E in Kilkenny has been lauded as a model of best practise for other hospitals around the country.

Kilkenny TD Bobby Aylward is refusing to support Minister Noel Dempsey’s plans to reduce the drink driving limit.