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The adrenaline is pumping, coursing through the veins. The team picked. Tactics discussed. Donegal’s performances analysed. Bags packed. Don’t mess with the routine. Be sure to include a miraculous medal. And that’s just the fans.

There is no “magic bullet” or “one size fits all solution” to mortgage debt in the country. These were comments made by the Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, on Thursday morning, as he addressed the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform.

The streets of Castlebar are being revived over the coming days with the Heart of Castlebar Street Festival. The three day festival, which commenced yesterday (Thursday) offers plenty of local shopping promotions and super discounts in local stores. Free family fun and entertainment will fill the pedestrian friendly streets and the official launch will take place on Saturday at 12.30pm, at the junction of Main Street and Castle Street, by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. Hopefully people will turn out and support this proactive festival, which will generate much needed money for the local economy.

A local man, who threatened to stab anyone who came near him, violently “lunged” at his girlfriend after attempting to obstruct gardai by barricading his parents’ sitting room, the Galway District Court heard this week.

With the preparations commencing for our national feast day, gearing up to celebrate this day seems in a time when feelings of anger, cynicism, and deep resentment are resonating though society, is far from a plausible notion, with even the most patriotic among us questioning the notion of being proud to be Irish. As we haplessly watch the country crumble around us, the fact that the world will be focusing their attention on our little land on St Patrick’s Day to laud praise upon us seems all the more iniquitous.

Just over a year since the Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy causing financial shock waves throughout the world, with the crest of these shock waves forcing Ireland into a deep recession, the Government’s legislative resuscitation for our economy, through the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency to purge the five financial institutions in the country — AIB, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, EBS Building Society and Irish Nationwide – of toxic loans which were incurred during the property boom, has begun.

Just over a year since the Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy causing financial shock waves throughout the world, with the crest of these shock waves forcing Ireland into a deep recession, the Government’s legislative resuscitation for our economy, through the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency to purge the five financial institutions in the country — AIB, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, EBS Building Society and Irish Nationwide – of toxic loans which were incurred during the property boom, has begun.

The most anticipated budget has finally been delivered with miserly news from Scrooge Lenihan casting a shadow of gloom over the festive season for many householders. The harshest of cuts are once again impacting on the most vulnerable, with social welfare recipients and public service workers to bear the brunt of the €4 billion savings in expenditure.