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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.

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A decision by Irish Rail to permit the carriage of bicycles on off-peak Darts and commuter trains has been welcomed by the cycling public who up until now have been unable to bring their bicycles on trains.

Paul Connaughton, one of Co Galway’s longest serving TDs, will bring down the curtain on a political career of more than 30 years, when he retires at the next election.

Green Party junior minister for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White has welcomed the news that forest plantings are 25 per cent above 2009 levels and that work is well underway in Government to deliver on the forestry commitments contained in the Renewed Programme for Government.

Kilkenny, has been awarded the title of Ireland’s Tidiest Large Urban Centre 2010 from the Tidy Towns competition.

Green Party Junior Minister Mary White has welcomed the announcement of a further €16,000 in grants for community and voluntary groups under the Scheme of Community Support for Older People.

Kilkenny nurses are to take to the streets today (Friday) in a protest at bed closures and nurse ‘redeployments’ which are to occur at Kilkreene Orthapaedic Hospital this month and carry on until the end of December this year.

The chairman of Westmeath County Council says the council acted responsibly in rezoning large parts of the county for development.

A weary Liam Aylward MEP told the Kilkenny Advertiser yesterday (Thursday) that he had made up his mind days ago to surrender his ministerial pension but that he was not going to be intimidated by the media into making a statement on his decision.