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The HSE Midlands has launched the second edition of the Portfolio of Mental Health Assessment Tools, which will enhance assessment for mental health clients. The launch, which was hosted in the Department of Nursing and Health Sciences at Athlone Institute of Technology, was attended by HSE mental heath services staff from Westmeath, Offaly, Longford, and Laois, mental heath practitioners, and service user groups.

Councillors were effusive in their praise of county librarian Mary Farrell, who is to take early retirement from the council after 17 years at the helm of the county’s library services.

The written word remains a strong attraction to Kilkenny’s children, even with the proliferation of television, DVDs, computer consoles, laptops and other technological temptations it appears.

The message that the local libraries in the city and towns of county Kilkenny were of the utmost importance in the daily lives of the unemployed resounded loud and clear this week following a presentation by the head librarian to members of Kilkenny County Council.

A much-loved county librarian received a once-off standing ovation from the members and officials of Kilkenny County Council this week on the occasion of his retirement.

A much-loved county librarian received a once-off standing ovation from the members and officials of Kilkenny County Council this week on the occasion of his retirement.

I just got a letter this week from an old colleague from Carlow who has moved to Peru to work in a home for sick children. John Whelan has spent many years there and has made his life in Peru with his Peruvian partner Karina.

Rural readers will not be left out in the cold next year as Kilkenny is to get a new mobile library vehicle, which will serve rural communities in the county of Kilkenny.

Sir William Gregory, a wealthy widower was 60, 35 years older than Augusta, when he first met her. It was at a cricket match at her home at Roxborough in the summer of 1877, to which he was invited. He was late, and sat at the only vacant place left at the table, beside Augusta. ‘Augusta wore a fashionable dress bought at Bon Marché in Paris, and a black and white straw hat decorated with corn ears and poppies. The usually plain, quiet, girl was noticeable and pretty.’ By the end of the day Sir William was smitten.

A new Mullingar Library is to open in June this year, while initiatives whereby young people deliver library books to elderly people are set to spring up around the county.