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Fine Gael spokesperson on Enterprise in the Seanad, Senator John Paul Phelan has said that he has not ruled out running in the up-coming European elections following a request from sitting MEP Avril Doyle.

Unemployment figures continue to rise and in the six months since April 1,820 more people are sighing on in Mayo. The live register in Mayo stood at 5,795 last April while the most recent figures for October show them standing at a staggering 7,615.

Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

A few months ago I wrote that a week is a long time in politics, the old saying, but for Fianna Fáil and in particular Fianna Fáil Councillors, TDs and MEPs this month has been a long time.

As anger grows at government cutbacks, particularly in education, the political mood in the county suggests that many will take out their frustrations in next year’s local elections. Add to this a host of retirements and the scene could be set for a number of election shocks in the Castlebar electoral area.

Such is the degree of confidence that the young Carlow Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan has in his party leader. When speaking to the Kilkenny Advertiser/ Carlow First this week, Senator Phelan spokesperson on enterprise in the Seanad, said that he was extremely confident that the leader of Fine Gael “will be the next Taoiseach and he’ll be damn good too!”

The personal library of the former Taoiseach, the late Charles J Haughey, was presented to the National Museum of Ireland this week to go on display in Turlough House.

Fianna Fail has confirmed candidates for the up-coming local elections for Kilkenny County Council for the Kilkenny, Piltown and Thomastown local electoral areas.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin TD have achieved a number of concessions on issues in the Lisbon Treaty that caused people in Mayo concern, according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

It has been confirmed that Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan is to run in the European elections this June.