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The councillor or elected representative is just that, he or she is elected to represent the public in any way necessary at local government level.

Funding of €29,655 has been made available to Westmeath County Council to support the work of the Community and Voluntary Forum in Westmeath.

Sigh! I was all excited this week, seven weeks to elections, surely now the fun begins!

Kilkenny’s former junior minister John McGuinness has pledged that he will not be downtrodden as a result of the Taoiseach’s decision to axe him as Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Enterprise and he added that he would hope to be back in a ministerial role once again in the future.

Fianna Fail Councillor John Coonan is a proud Fianna Fail man and makes no excuses for his party.

With the Local Elections only a couple of weeks away the candidates in each area are busy on the doorsteps putting themselves in front of the people again. With the redrawing of election boundaries causing consternation in a number of areas with areas swapping from one to another and Ballinrobe being extinguished as an electoral area in its own right, the Swinford area was one of the least affected with the transfer of Aghamore into its area from the newly expanded Claremorris area.

Last night (Thursday) an open meeting was due to take place between Government Ministers Eamon Ryan and Eamon Ó Cuív with community groups Pobal Chill Chomáin, Pobal Le Chéile, Rossport Solidarity Camp, Shell To Sea (Mayo), and members of the Erris community at Inver Community Hall.

During a recent economic stimulus workshop which was attended by Westport town councillors, a number of positive proposals were discussed in order to generate a boost to the locality during these bleak national economic times.

The Hardcourt Singles League, kindly sponsored once again for another year by Honda Motors Kilkenny, came to a satisfactory conclusion on Saturday evening. Thankfully we were spared the inclement conditions of the last few days, so that the finalists could give the excellent new courts a thorough test.

A minor pre-election political row broke out between the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael councillors at the last ever Ballinrobe electoral are committee meeting this week.