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What a week it has been. It was a great weekend for Fine Gael — they couldn’t have asked for more in Carlow Kilkenny. They had been hopeful of securing two seats — but to have gained three was a huge bonus for the party locally.

Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Joan Burton this week, told the Kilkenny Advertiser that she didn’t expect to see Kilkenny Labour candidate Ann Phelan battling it out for the last seat as she believes that Cllr Phelan will be elected well before that.

FINE GAEL TD Leo Varadkar launched 32 year-old Senator John Paul Phelan’s election campaign last Friday evening saying that Senator Phelan is part of a new generation of politicians, who believes in politics and is in politics because he believes it is a noble profession through which he can achieve good things,

Former Minister of Social Welfare, Proinsias De Rossa, returned to the Fr McGrath Centre last week for the first time in 15 years since he presided at the official opening of the Fr McGrath Centre in what was then little more than a one-storey derelict building.

Latest Live Register figures, which show a 190 per cent increase in the numbers signing on across Kilkenny city and county since the last election are shocking and only reflect the tip of the iceberg, according to local Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan, who added that many more people have emigrated rather than face the humiliation of queuing for a living.

Cllr Ann Phelan, one of Labour’s two election candidates in Carlow Kilkenny, has come out against the cut in the minimum wage, introduced by the Fianna Fáil-Green government and brought into on its last day in office.

In a week in which Ireland made political headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons, a local election candidate says that most of the damage could have been avoided if sense had prevailed.

Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan is hosting his general election campaign fund-raising lunch at Kilkenny’s Pembroke Hotel today, Friday, January 28, at 12.30pm.

With selection conventions rapidly taking place around the county and country, following her recent selection Ann Phelan in Kilkenny is hopeful that there will be a successful conclusion come election day in Carlow-KIlkenny for the Labour Party.

Barry Phelan, General Manager of the Kingfisher Club, NUI Galway has been named ‘ILAM Manager of the Year’ at the White Flag Awards which were held in the Breaffy House Hotel in Castlebar. ILAM is the industry body which represents sports, fitness, aquatic facilities, spas and wellness in Ireland. As his prize, Mr Phelan has won a trip to the 29th Annual International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) Convention and Trade Show which takes place from March 10-13 at the San Diego Convention Centre, California.