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It’s beginning to get really exciting now as election fever takes over.

A local election candidate is calling for a volunteer centre to be established in Kilkenny city that would assist the unemployed in gaining new skills while also volunteering for the benefit of others.

Fianna Fail appeared to cut off their nose to spite their face in the Kilkenny electoral area of the county council as only two of the three Fianna Fail seats were returned to the party.

Kilkenny will have its first foreign candidate in the June local elections, when Polish native Anna Michalska (26), will contest the city Borough Council elections for Fianna Fáil along with Cllr Andrew McGuinness, Cllr John Coonan, Cllr Joe Reidy and Joe Malone.

It was utterly unexpected but it happened. Labour was almost but not quite annihilated in Kilkenny city this election. Kilkenny Borough Council almost went from three sitting councillors to one, however, in the eleventh hour Sean O hArgain was thrown a life line and retained his seat after two long days of wondering.

Now that most of the posters are gone and the rest are being taken down in record time, what passes for normal life has resumed in Kilkenny.

Kilkenny city bucked the national trend on several occasions over election weekend but no occasion was more obvious than the performance of Fianna Fail in the borough council election.