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Irish business mogul Ben Dunne is calling for a total clean-out of current Oireachtas members and the replacement of existing TDs with a new batch of young people versed in business.

As news continues to break about company closures and job losses, more and more people are having to deal with the reality of redundancy. Alex Papadellis, formerly a mechanic with Caseys garage in Castlebar which closed down last October, has been living through the struggles of life after redundancy for the past eight months.

Now is the perfect time for potential start-up businesses to take a risk and enter the market, despite the doom and gloom of recession, according to respected broadcaster Mark Little.

Applicants for the second call of the employment subsidy scheme, a €70 million fund to assist in sustaining jobs have recently been notified as to whether or not they have been successful. Russell Brennan Keane’s clients are among the 2,590 businesses in Ireland that applied for support, and 80 per cent of applications made by the firm’s clients were successful. For many of these businesses it has proved to be a timely boost to cashflow with support of up to €9,100 per employee being secured.

Calls for help to the St Vincent de Paul Society in the city continue to be up by 30 per cent in the New Year, a situation which its administrator describes as “unusual”.

In the aftermath of Christmas it is normal that businesses would find it tough in the early weeks of the New Year and Kilkenny Chamber is reminding people to shop local even after the Christmas season.

Cllr Marie Fitzpatrick is indeed a force to be reckoned with.

Are you anxious to shed some extra pounds but find it difficult to find a method which succeeds for you?

Many of us do not know what we want from life. We are not fully aware of ourselves and our needs. We operate on convenient autopilot, not quite happy or fulfilled but too tired or apathetic to make any real changes.

“Everyone tells me I’m going to enjoy it, but it’s a daunting task. Well I’m in for it now and I’m looking forward to getting out there.” Michael McLaughlin is no different than any first time candidate hitting out on the campaign trail, nervous about going knocking on people’s doors, people he knows personally and professionally for years, and putting himself in front of them asking them to give him their number one this June. The 31-year-old married father of two is best known as a photographer around the county, based in Westport, the town of his birth and his home since he came back after college to set up his own business, and it’s because of these traits that he believes he is the perfect man to represent the people of his home town. Not that it was at all planned at first, “I was talking to Peter Flynn one day and asked him how was he getting on with the campaign himself, he then suggested that I should run for the town council myself, which was a bit of a shock. I told him to let me think about it and the more time I took to think about it the more it seemed like the right thing to do, so I let my name go forward to the nominating convention and was nominated for the Town Council so here I am now.”