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Lisbon is not a remedy for Ireland’s economic ills or the way towards a more social Europe. It will simply take the EU further down the road of militarisation and “give away almost all of Ireland’s sovereign power”.

Local nurses, who are members of the Irish Nurses’ Organisation, are being balloted for industrial action in a bid to protect them from further cuts in pay and conditions, says their union.

Westmeath County Council’s new county buildings in Mullingar have won the 2009 OPUS Architectural and Construction Award for the category of buildings over €20 million. The new county buildings were opened on June 11 and marked the culmination of a two year construction project which has been completed on budget. The new buildings provide significant improvements in public services in an environmentally friendly manner.

Schools, social welfare offices, museums, libraries, county and town council offices all ground to a stop in the wind and rain last Tuesday as the public service workers in the county joined their colleagues across the country in a one day strike. Non essential services were not available to the people of Mayo for the day as the thousands of public service workers in the county voiced their anger at potential cut backs to their pay and conditions in the upcoming Budget.