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Michael D Higgins was last night placed firmly back in the race to win the presidential election after a dramatic few days in the four -week campaign.

Let’s Do It Global have unveiled ambitious plans for the final leg of the 2012 Volvo Ocean Race which is expected to cost €4.5 million.

Independent presidential candidate David Norris was on the campaign trail in Kilkenny city on Monday this week, where he met an overwhelmingly positive reception from locals.

We are now entering the business end of this presidential election.

The Labour Party’s presidential candidate Michael D Higgins this week presented his personal archive of writings and documents to the National Library of Ireland.

“Sinn Féin, whether we agree with it and accept what it says or not, is an organisation brimful with answers to our problems and they are answers, in the main, that directly confront the policies being pursued by other parties.”

Medieval Graiguenamanagh will be catapulted into the technology age this weekend, as Tweeters and non-Tweeters alike gather for the Town of Books Festival.

“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public - Robert F Kennedy

“The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public - Robert F Kennedy

A decision to move some non-critical functions from University Hospital Galway to other hospitals in the region this month will free up beds in wards at the city hospital and help reduce waiting times and overcrowding at its emergency department.