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Niall Ó Brolcháin’s political career has been dramatically resurrected following his appointment to Seanad Éireann, but it has come in for stinging criticism from Fianna Fáil councillor Ollie Crowe, who said it was “a betrayal of the electorate”.

While the Galway Chamber has called for reduced charges in city car parks, Fine Gael councillor Hidegarde Naughton has gone further by calling for free parking at selected times during the week.

There will be an international flavour to the music series at Coole Park over the next few days as part of the Coole Park Winter Programme. Tonight (Thursday) Coole will host a concert of Mexican music by The Gringo Stars from 8pm to 9pm.

The four Family Resource Centres based in Westmeath and Longford have welcomed the high level of political and public support they have received for the campaign to prevent their closure in the forthcoming budget. However, they have said that – ultimately – the countdown to December 9 will be critical in determining the future of Family Resource Centres around the country, and they have called for continued support for their campaign over the coming weeks.

Athlone-based medical device company, Teleflex Medical, received the gold award in the Shared Service category at the third Irish Medical Devices Association (IMDA) Excellence Awards last Thursday night, November 12. Supported by Enterprise Ireland and IDA, the awards were held at Dromoland Castle, Co Clare.

Dertour, with a €1.5 billion turnover last year, and market leader for the past 40 years, are currently in Ireland attending their annual travel academy. While the travel academy will be based in Killarney, all 700 travel agents are participating in pre and post academy tours, organised by Fáilte Ireland, in conjunction with Tourism Ireland. The tours present a valuable opportunity for the tourism industry to sell itself to the German market and allow Fáilte Ireland to showcase the best that Ireland has to offer throughout the country.

A south Mayo county councillor has received confirmation that Eircom will not be upgrading the local Hollymount exchange, but that Hollymount will now come under the National Broadband Scheme. This means that the Government and the mobile network 3 will now be including the area in its rollout of broadband wireless technology in 2010.

Fine Gael party leader Enda Kenny said he was “heartened” by the enthusiasm of the Westmeath and Roscommon business leaders he met in Athlone last Thursday, as part of a series of economics fora being held around the country.

Two memorable party nights are planned for The Ardilaun on Friday 4 and Saturday December 5.

Alan Titley, the writer, columnist and Professor of Modern Irish in UCC, will give a free public lecture on Breandán Ó hEithir’s Lig Sinn I gCathu on Saturday at 2pm in the Galway City Museum.