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Week II

MEP Luke Ming Flanagan has said the Minister for Health, Simon Harris could not be more mean spirited.

Housing Minister Simon Coveney is being asked to investigate allegations of abuses of the Affordable Social Housing scheme.

Cabinet approves legislation brought forward by Minister Shane Ross to ensure that all drivers detected of drink driving receive a disqualification

The landmark Westport House has been the recipient of a major tourism award. The 18th century house and estate was named as Ireland’s Best Leisure Tourism Innovation in the county category at the Irish Tourism Industry Awards ceremony at the Clayton Hotel in Dublin last weekend.

Fine Gael Deputy for Longford-Westmeath, Peter Burke, is encouraging people in Athlone and across Westmeath to have their say on a new National Plan for Ireland.

JPK Fencing, who are based in Claregalway, could go all the way in this year’s SFA National Small Business Awards. This is the second time in-a-row that they are finalists in the competition.

In the early afternoon of Monday September 4 1939, Galway’s harbour master, Captain Tom Tierney, was amazed to be contacted by radio from a Norwegian freighter Knute Nelson. It was steaming south towards Galway with 430 survivors from the passenger liner SS Athenia, which had been torpedoed 250 miles north-west of Inishtrahull Island, off the Donegal coast. Many of the survivors needed medical attention. Was Galway in a position to offer aid and safety?

A few years ago, when going through old photos at home, I happened upon a set of old monochromes showing myself, about four or five, playing on the grounds of Westport House with the younger members of the Browne family. To this day I have no idea of how this came about, whether I had been kidnapped for the day, or merely abandoned, and the photograph offers no explanation that I have so far been able to decode.

Longford-Westmeath Fine Gael Deputy, Peter Burke, is urging sports clubs from across Westmeath to attend an information evening being held in Athlone IT on Tuesday, February 7, from 7pm to 9pm.