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An increase in commercial rates in 2009 would have serious consequences for businesses already struggling with rising costs and decreasing turnovers, Athlone Chamber has warned.

A stark warning was delivered yesterday to Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe by Westmeath’s post-primary principals - the loss of 31 teaching positions and over €0.5 million of resourcing to Westmeath schools will have dire consequences for the future of the county’s children.

Opening scene of the Oireachtas Report Christmas Special, Minister McGuinness™ is at the front of a snow-covered Leinster House, surrounded by carol singers, ISME, IBEC, and the Public Sector Unions. He sings:

A scarcity of taxis is a disaster for a city’s occupants. Especially for a city as wet and often miserable as Galway. At night it leads to queues, long waits, and when you add that to alcohol, fights.

The return of the Aer Lingus Gatwick route to Ireland West Airport Knock and the Aer Lingus Heathrow route to Shannon Airport is a considerable boost for Galway and the west of Ireland, according to Dep Frank Fahey.

Earlier this year, the Houses of the Oireachtas celebrated 90 years of Dáil Éireann by hosting a special commemorative sitting of both Houses in the Mansion House in Dublin.

God knows all we Mayo folk could do with the odd dig-out, on the basis that for us the road to perdition is often littered with potholes and rabid dogs, but we have to say that even the most brass-necked of us had to hold our hands up and say the antics of Beverley Flynn left us all a bit red-faced this week.

Speaking this week following a meeting with the Council for the West and the Oireachtas Liaison Committee, Sinn Féin regional development spokesperson Senator Pearse Doherty has called on the Government to keep its hands off the Western Development Commission (WDC).

The Mayor Pat Crotty has officially extended an invitation to the Oireachtas to sit in Kilkenny once again during the Kilkenny 400 celebrations.

Kilkenny’s Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise and Trade John McGuinness has called for a pay-cut in the public sector for anyone earning over €50,000.