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All Star Sinead Burke knows a thing or two about working hard, only to suffer disheartening defeats.

Student rents are continuing to fall year on year in Athlone.

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, John O’Mahony, has received confirmation from Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, that part-time fire-fighters will now be entitled to jobseeker's payments. Up to now, many retained fire-fighters were deemed ineligible for jobseekers on the grounds that they were not 'available for and seeking work'.

The Galway City Council’s Housing Department has begun its Housing Needs Assessment with a view to competing its work by April.

The Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton, has reassured people getting Jobseeker’s Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance from the Department of Social Protection that if they get temporary work over the Christmas period their Jobseeker’s payment will be reinstated without delay when they finish work.

More people in Galway will be able to apply to the Better Energy Warmer Homes Scheme now that the Government has extended it to homeowners on social welfare.

The Government’s approach to the cut in rent allowance is ill thought out and has created a great deal of fear and anxiety among those in receipt of the payment.

Fine Gael Mayo TD John O’Mahony has welcomed the announcement of 6,000 new college places which are being made available to unemployed people, including previously self-employed people, who want to upskill, as part of the Springboard initiative.

Whether or not the controversial report this week about the Polish woman 'Magda' living the high life courtesy of the generous Irish social welfare system was entirely accurate or not matters little; what matters a lot however is that, just as with the 'mad and greedy' economy-crashing Irish people that our Taoiseach so readily informed the World Economic Forum about last week, much of the report contents were actually true.