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A coffee morning will be held in Corcullen tomorrow (Friday) to raise funds and support for the presidential campaign of Labour’s Michael D Higgins.

THE 2011 Over The Edge Summer Open-mic, part of the Westside Arts Festival, takes place at the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Tuesday at 6.30pm.

Irish presidential hopeful Michael D Higgins visited Kilkenny city last week, as he prepared to address the annual opening of the Labour Party’s Tom Johnson Summer School.

RITA ANN HIGGINS, one of Galway’s greatest and most outspoken poets, will read at the May Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, on Thursday May 26 at 6.30pm.

A Claremorris man was given a one-year driving ban and fined €500 in Claremorris District Court for a careless driving conviction after he failed to pay a fixed charge penalty notice that was issued to him.

Joe Higgins, the outspoken Socialist Party TD, will be in Galway next week to address a public meeting on the EU/IMF bailout, unemployment, cuts, and the socialist alternative.

MEP Jim Higgins this week expressed his concern that the presence of African Pond Weed in Lough Corrib is leaving Ireland open to large EU fines, unless the situation is rectified soon.

JAPANESE POET Hisa Kagawa and Galway poet and playwright Rita Ann Higgins will be reading from their work at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.

Jim Higgins MEP has asked the European Commission to examine a low cost airline policy which is having an adverse affect. “Some low cost carriers restrict each passenger to just one carry-on item or else they face a fine. It is an issue of huge concern for the entire duty free and travel retail industry with obvious consequences for sales at airports,” said Mr Higgins. 

Jim Higgins MEP for Ireland North West said the fact that people who have emigrated to other European Union countries, and elsewhere around the world, cannot vote is a “disgrace”.