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Kilkenny Local Authorities have decided on how to spend the county funds for next year following several meetings between the members and officials this week.

Now that most of the posters are gone and the rest are being taken down in record time, what passes for normal life has resumed in Kilkenny.

It was a nail biting election for candidates over Sunday and Monday as the Euro election hopefuls waited to hear their fate.

With just four seats in what has been traditionally a five seater area, there was always going to be a fall out in Thomastown.

The people of the Ballyragget Electoral Area appeared to be content with what they had as they returned the five sitting councillors on Kilkenny County Council once again this year.

Kilkenny city bucked the national trend on several occasions over election weekend but no occasion was more obvious than the performance of Fianna Fail in the borough council election.

It is finally all over. Not only are the candidates all exhausted but we are all a little exhausted from politics at the moment and from now on it will be winding down.

As the newly elected Westmeath County Council meets for the first time later today, it looks likely that, for the first time in years, Fine Gael will be in control of all three local authorities in the county.

The thing about elections is that political anoraks can never get enough of them. The locals are just over and already speculation is going on about who might run for which party in the next General Election.

The HSE has said that the closure of 16 beds at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar is a routine procedure during the summer months. In a statement, it said that the demand for services reduces over the summer period “where patients take summer holidays and hospitals historically effect bed closures during that period”.