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The voluntary run Community Savings Bank project is now five years old and this week all eight banks will hand back a considerable sum in saving to local families in the nine Carlow /Kilkenny areas they are run from.

Within days of being announced in the last week’s papers 40 youth training jobs offered by the two city family centres and FÁS have been snapped up, leading to calls from community leaders for similar initiatives for the hundreds of young Kilkenny people with few employment prospects who are still on the dole.

A unique partnership between FÁS and city housing communities, supported by Kilkenny County Council’s RAPID programme, is to create a pilot employment training scheme to take 40 young men off the dole.

The Fr McGrath Centre and Newpark Close FRCs will be at the forefront on a new government drive to raise IT literacy skills and help improve Irish people’s employment skills for the 21st century labour market.

Responding to local demand the Butts Savings Bank at the Fr Mc Grath Centre, now in its fifth year, is changing its opening hours from 7 -8pm to Thursday 6.30- 7.30pm as of this week.

A lifeline has been thrown to the people who use the services and those who work at the Father McGrath Centre in the city, putting an end to months of speculation over the centre’s future.

There is good news for the unemployed in Kilkenny — the Kilkenny Jobs Club is to remain open following a scare that it was to shut down today, Friday April 29.

The sixth annual Stars in Disguise contest takes place on April 2 in its usual venue of Langton’s Ballroom, John Street.

Former Minister of Social Welfare, Proinsias De Rossa, returned to the Fr McGrath Centre last week for the first time in 15 years since he presided at the official opening of the Fr McGrath Centre in what was then little more than a one-storey derelict building.

Naoise Coogan