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Within days of being announced in the last week’s papers 40 youth training jobs offered by the two city family centres and FÁS have been snapped up, leading to calls from community leaders for similar initiatives for the hundreds of young Kilkenny people with few employment prospects who are still on the dole.

With campaigning in full swing for all the candidates on the ballot paper for the presidential election, Martin McGuinness’ campaign bus stopped off in Castlebar last week, where the Sinn Féin candidate was greeted by a large number of supporters outside the Welcome Inn Hotel. The Derry native worked his way through his supporters before sitting down to face the local media in preparation for a walkabout through the streets of the town, meeting the public.

CATHY DAVEY will launch Play Irish in Galway tomorrow, a new project designed to increase support and airtime for Irish bands and singers, on Irish radio stations.

The growing trend for cooking at home is celebrated in a new cookbook, Food For Sharing, written by well-known and popular Kilkenny chef Anne Neary.

The HSE has been accused of operating in a “cloak of secrecy” this week akin to what happened during the Cold War. Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary said elected representatives were finding it extremely difficult to get information from the service and pointed out that although the board of the HSE were all sacked in April, the situation was getting worse.

In 2004 as All Ireland weekend approached the Mayo senior football management discussed the option of getting in a guest speaker to have a chat with the footballers before we lined out against Kerry. Certain individuals were suggested. . . the usual suspects from the various codes of sport. In recent times lots of teams have used big stars/names as they seek to gain the edge on match day. The likes of Roy Keane, Bernard Dunne and Keith Wood have all being invited to provide words of wisdom and reassurance on the eve of big matches. We invariably hear about the wonderful job these guys did if, and only if, the team manages to go on and achieve victory.

O’Donnellan & Joyce within the next 10 days will finalise its listings for its major property auction which will take place on September 30 in the Victoria Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway.

The first stage of the Galway City Water Conservation project, estimated to cost in the region of €800,000 and which will involve the installation of bulk water meters throughout the city, is set to begin at the beginning of next month.

Anyone travelling from Mayo to England this week has been advised by the Department of Foreign Affairs to avoid certain areas due to the riots.

The Road Safety Authority and the Irish Farmers Association are urging road users to take extra care as the number of tractors, trailers, and other farm machinery using the roads increases over the summer months.