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Labour Party president Michael D Higgins has sharply criticised the Government’s proposed ‘business plan’ for the NAMA, saying he would not accept such a “document from a first-year university student”.

The dispute over the shedding of 130 Coca Cola jobs in Tuam has gone on “long enough” and it is “high time” that the Enterprise and Employment Minister Mary Coughlan intervened.

“Evasive and obfuscatory” is how Labour Galway West TD Michael D Higgins has described the Minister for Education’s responses to his questions about Coláiste na Coiribe.

In one final flurry to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of MGM’s multi-million dollar production, Alfred the Great, the Cinemobile announces that it will screen a special showing of the movie on location where many of the famous battle scenes were filmed at Castlehackett four decades ago.

Last evening's Budget will drive talented people away from this country by making them seriously consider emigration, a Galway senator claimed last night.

More than 4,500 young people out of work in Galway. It is a crisis which calls for “imaginative and constructive leadership” which the current Government “is not capable of providing”.

The last three budgets have inflicted “massive reductions” on the school building programme, a fall of 22 per cent, and yet the number of schools needing work remains the same as ever.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights must investigate why the Burmese courts have imposed a 20 year gaol sentence on a journalist.