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While the new FG/Labour coalition has had several big ‘set piece occasions’ since coming to power – the renegotiation of the EU/IMF agreement and the jobs initiative during the summer for example – last week’s Budget was always going to be a watershed moment.

DRAGON’S DEN sensation Santa Ponsa Or Bust comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week on Friday August 5 and Saturday 6 featuring the two funniest men in Cork: Frank Twomey and Pakie O’Callaghan.

The fallout from the most dramatic economic collapse imaginable over these past three years, coming after the incredible highs of more than a decade of the fabled or now much-maligned ‘Celtic Tiger’, has produced plenty of reviews and reassessments of that period in Irish history and of the decisions taken.

The west of Ireland is still being neglected for major infrastructural development and the region’s MEPs are out of touch with the people on European issues, so new voices and new thinking is needed.

It’s a terrible shock when the ‘recession’ changes from being the something you read about in the paper to a factor really affecting your life.

While people talk about Billy Cameron, Brian Walsh, Declan McDonnell, Padraig Conneely, etc, as on course to keep their seats, people are unwilling to place any bets on the 2009 Local Elections just yet.

The Midlands Gateway Chamber announced this week that the principal after-dinner speaker at the Ambassadors Ball on May 8 is one of Ireland’s best know politicians, Charlie McCreevy.

The Midlands Gateway Chamber Ambassadors Ball, to be held on Friday May 8 in the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone, offers an ideal opportunity in these troubled times for your business to get networking with other businesses in the region.