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The only person who stands between Labour party president and former Galway West TD Michael D Higgins and the position of Uachtaráin na hÉireann is Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

The Labour Party’s presidential candidate Michael D Higgins this week presented his personal archive of writings and documents to the National Library of Ireland.

“Sinn Féin, whether we agree with it and accept what it says or not, is an organisation brimful with answers to our problems and they are answers, in the main, that directly confront the policies being pursued by other parties.”

He may have been immortalised as being ‘rocking in the Dáil for us’ by The Saw Doctors, but come the near future the Tuam troubadours may have to do a new version to have him ‘rocking in the Áras for us’ if Michael D Higgins achieves his goal and becomes the ninth resident of Ireland. The 70-year-old former TD and minister for arts, culture and Gaeltacht is currently out on the campaign trail pushing his vision for the presidency of the State and the future of the country.

Kilkenny councillor Tomás Breathnach has been elected Cathaoirleach of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly. His term of office will run to July 2012.

Kilkenny councillor Tomás Breathnach has been elected Cathaoirleach of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly. His term of office will run to July 2012.

Michael D Higgins stands a real chance of becoming the first west of Ireland man to become President of Ireland and a major drive is about to take place in Galway to get behind his campaign.

A decision to move some non-critical functions from University Hospital Galway to other hospitals in the region this month will free up beds in wards at the city hospital and help reduce waiting times and overcrowding at its emergency department.

An important element of the Water Services Investment Programme adopted by Kilkenny County Council in 2007 has been approved by the Department of the Environment.

Kilkenny Labour TD Ann Phelan has welcomed the recent recommendations by the CSO and prominent economists of the need for a national housing price database.