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The voluntary run Community Savings Bank project is now five years old and this week all eight banks will hand back a considerable sum in saving to local families in the nine Carlow /Kilkenny areas they are run from.

Within days of being announced in the last week’s papers 40 youth training jobs offered by the two city family centres and FÁS have been snapped up, leading to calls from community leaders for similar initiatives for the hundreds of young Kilkenny people with few employment prospects who are still on the dole.

A unique partnership between FÁS and city housing communities, supported by Kilkenny County Council’s RAPID programme, is to create a pilot employment training scheme to take 40 young men off the dole.

The Fr McGrath Centre and Newpark Close FRCs will be at the forefront on a new government drive to raise IT literacy skills and help improve Irish people’s employment skills for the 21st century labour market.

Responding to local demand the Butts Savings Bank at the Fr Mc Grath Centre, now in its fifth year, is changing its opening hours from 7 -8pm to Thursday 6.30- 7.30pm as of this week.

Former Minister of Social Welfare, Proinsias De Rossa, returned to the Fr McGrath Centre last week for the first time in 15 years since he presided at the official opening of the Fr McGrath Centre in what was then little more than a one-storey derelict building.

Transition year students from across the city will take to the city streets today Friday (11th) in a final push to add to the thousands of signatures they have gathered in a public petition to all candidates to save the children’s services at the Fr McGrath Centre.

Transition Year students from across the city convened a meeting of TY students this week in a bid to encourage them to join a campaign to raise public awareness of the threat to the Children At Risk Programme at the Fr McGrath Centre.

More than 40 volunteer tutors met with Junior Minister Mary White and local TDs, John McGuinness and Bobby Aylward, at the Fr McGrath Centre last week to appeal for their support to save the centre’s education catch-up and extensive self-development programmes for children falling behind in school and at risk of early school-leaving.

A community effort to save the last parish hall left in the city received a resounding vote of confidence from parishioners and Bishop Freeman and Mayor Brett who presided at the official opening on Sunday.