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A new website - www.screenwest.ie - is being launched this week by the Galway Film Centre as an information portal which seeks to attract film makers and television producers to the west of Ireland.

Newly elected Athlone Town Councillor Jim Henson has added his voice to the Labour party’s scathing reaction to the Bord Snip proposal to take medical cards from all but those on the lowest social welfare payments.

Ballinahown businessman Noel O’Gara has hit out at a report in a national newspaper, which centred around claims that he had taken possession of a home in Rathgar which he did not own, describing it as “malicious and misleading”.

Ballinahown businessman Noel O’Gara has hit out at a report in a national newspaper, which centred around claims that he had taken possession of a home in Rathgar which he did not own, describing it as “malicious and misleading”.

Firstly I’m far from an economist, I’m not even an amateur economist, dabbling in the social science in school and third level made sure that my economic genius would not see the light of day in the business or academic world. But even I can still recognise that when 46 highly qualified academics sign an article in a newspaper, it might be worth having a look at what they are saying.

The Labour Party will hold a public meeting to outline the case for a Yes vote to the Lisbon Treaty on Monday September 14 at 7.30pm in the Menlo Park Hotel.

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If Ireland votes Yes to Lisbon, the door is opened to a more social EU that defends workers’ rights, but also Ireland’s right to its own laws on taxes, abortion, and defence remain intact and cannot be interfered with.

The economy is in recession and the banking system has failed, but the Government’s only solution is to “revive a model that has failed, rather than to totally reform the system”.

Controversy over the Galway City Outer Bypass continues to rumble on but long term plans for the Seamus Quirke Road, raised at Monday’s city council meeting, show there are more positive ways of tackling the city’s traffic congestion.