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What a week it’s been.

Kilkenny City Labour Party candidate, Sean Butler, called upon the Government to link the need for banks to show flexibility on fixed rate mortgages to further bailout funding for the banking sector.

Sinn Féin County Councillor Gerry Murray has condemned the introduction of the pension levy which he claims puts the burden of Ireland’s public finances on low and medium income public workers and lets the oil and gas companies off the hook once again. He described the Government’s spin doctors as shameful in their “pathetic attempt to portray and blame public sector workers as being exclusively responsible for the current economic downturn”. Cllr Murray challenged Fianna Fáil on the fairness of the public service pension levy noting that the “sliding scale in the levy discriminates against the lower paid while the oil and gas multi-nationals go untouched.”

Youth Week takes place in all Bank of Ireland branches countrywide from July 6 to encourage parents to give their children the gift of saving by opening their first savings account for as little as €1.

Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Ballyragget electoral area, Ray Quinlan has said the upcoming budget must rectify and reverse the recent Fianna Fáil and Green Party attack on children with special educational needs.

A Kilkenny woman has had her home repossessed as 13 orders were granted at Monday’s High Court chancery summonses hearing.

Westport deputy Michael Ring spoke in the Dáil last week, seeking clarification about the number of people engaged in commercial activity, including the operation of a farm, who had applied for pension entitlements.

There are few people who do not have or know someone who has money worries. The Debt Advice Team are here to help when money worries become debt problems.

A public meeting to discuss the possibility of setting up a Galway Mortgage Holders Association to represent the growing numbers of mortgage holders getting into difficulties will be held this Monday in the Westwood Hotel at 8pm.

Attitudes to money, budgeting, and dealing with debt were just some of the topics discussed by Kilkenny youngsters who gathered last weekend at the YouthBank Moneysense workshops at the National College of Ireland.