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Minister for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has welcomed the announcement by Minister Frances Fitzgerald of the allocation of €14,000 to Stepping Stones Playgroup, St Colman’s Community Playgroup, Dalton Street, Claremorris.

The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald has launched the first findings from Growing up in Ireland — the infant cohort at three years involving 11,100 three-year-olds and their parents.

New legislation when introduced will ensure that Ireland’s adopted people will have the same rights as others around the world.

Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald will be in Castlebar today (Friday) to officially open the Paper Tales exhibition by artist Maeve Clancy as part of the RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival.

The nomination process for the upcoming presidential election has got as much coverage in the papers and the airwaves as most of the candidates over the past few months. One of the first to set his stall out and get into the race is the Fine Gael nominee Gay Mitchell. The former minister of state and current MEP for Dublin threw his hat in the ring early in the summer and has been on the campaign trail since. It has been a different kind of campaign for the Dubliner who has been more used to the metropolitan hustings than the more rural agricultural type of campaigning that the national contest had in store for him.

Youth projects in Athlone are to benefit from over €86,500 in funding to improve their facilities and services.

We have been here before. We said never again would standards be so lax. And yet here we are. The Cloyne Report this week drew attention to how as a Republic we have yet to stamp the State’s supreme authority over the affairs of our citizens. But reaction to its publication – and in particular Government reaction – suggests that we are moving to a position where the State is flexing its muscle as primary carer of the Nation in matters regarding child welfare and our education system. Mandatory reporting is on the way.

Three youth services in Westmeath are to receive funding of some €260,000 for 2011; Athlone Youth Information Centre, Midlands Project Athlone, and Mullingar Youth Response Project. The funding was announced by Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald this week. Athlone Youth Information Centre is set to receive €58, 230, Midlands Project Athlone will get €101,988, and Mullingar Youth Response Project will get funding of €92,168. Longford Youth Services Project also received funding of €92,168 from the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is holding its annual conference in Kilkenny this week and today (Friday) they will welcome the new Minister for Health Dr James O’Reilly to speak at the event.

“Honesty is not just our best policy, it is our only policy” — poignant words echoed by the new Taoiseach of the country, Enda Kenny, as he made his acceptance speech at the first session of the 31st Dáil.