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Funding of €250,000 has been anounced for disadvantaged areas in Mullingar, just two weeks after the town was ear-marked for inclusion in the RAPID programme.

Athlone’s Cllr Paddy Kilduff is to call on the Minister for Transport to allow discretion to Roscommon County Council to use funding to address road problems which have occurred due to the recent flooding in the county.

Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael Deputy James Bannon has said that were it not so serious, he could almost laugh at the insane pronouncements of Government Ministers.

Speaking on the Social Welfare Pensions Bill which would implement the Budget cuts, Fine Gael Longford/Westmeath Senator, Nicky McFadden, said the most vulnerable people in Ireland have been forced to take the hit while the administration costs of running the State remain untouched and social welfare fraud is also left unchecked.

It’s estimated that Westmeath county councillors will receive in the region of €100,000 in conference fees and expenses this year.

The final section of the M6 motorway, linking Ballinasloe and Galway, is to be opened this morning (Friday) by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey.

It’s estimated that Westmeath county councillors will receive in the region of €100,000 in conference fees and expenses this year.

During Monday afternoon’s county council meeting, councillors vented their anger at the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 which is being debated at present in the Dáil.

With 1,432 people aged under 25 in Kilkenny now on the dole, emigration seems like the only option for many young people in coming months.

That's a line that came from somewhere at the back of my mind last week. According to my internet search it was an advertising slogan in the UK in the 1940s, when most men still wore hats, for Dunn & Co, hatmakers. It implied that, in order to advance in life, you needed a hat to help you get on in your career.