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According to Labour candidate for Mayo, Dr Jerry Cowley, the huge increase of more than 12,000 in the live register figures for December is grim new year news.

It will be a very merry Christmas for one lucky customer of Griffin’s Newsagents, Athlone, with the news that a €30,000 prize was won from a scratchcard bought in the store.

GALWAY WILL be the last date on dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip’s upcoming tour but despite their gruelling schedule, the band will deliver nothing less than one hell of a great night. After all Galway is a city for which they genuinely have affection.

National support charity the Meningitis Trust is urgently seeking volunteers who can give one hour of their time tomorrow to help with the charity's annual Kilkenny Street Collection.

Thinking about buying a new home? The opportunity and value currently available is providing prospective buyers with great opportunities to own their own homes in sought after locations at affordable prices.

The Galway City Council has signed a €7 million contract with Coffey Construction Ltd for the long awaited upgrading of the Seamus Quirke Road, according to Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely.

Kilkenny’s hurling world came to a standstill on Tuesday when the news broke that Henry Shefflin was out of this year’s All-Ireland hurling final. The 31-year-old severed a cruciate ligament during Kilkenny’s semi-final victory over Cork on Sunday.

Hundreds of parents, carers, service users, families and friends took to the streets yesterday (Wednesday) to protest over budgetary cuts to the Brothers of Charity Services.

Nurses at the Bon Secours Hospital in Renmore staged a lunchtime protest yesterday (Wednesday) to highlight what they claim is their employer’s decision to renege on a pay agreement brokered earlier this year.

Some six and a half years ago John Muldoon, a newcomer to professional rugby, received his first cap for Connacht against the Scottish Borders. Back then coach Michael Bradley told the 20-years-old that he was there because he was an “all right” rugby player - not because he was home-grown Connacht. Today the Portumna man is one of only two from the province on the Irish team, and he knows he’s there on merit - standing proudly and taller than his 6’3” frame alongside Lions players like Jamie Heaslip, David Wallace, Paul O’Connell.