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Cadbury Supporter and A Half campaign has launched a new initiative called FAI Cadbury Kick Fit, which aims to raise awareness and encourage participation in senior women’s football around the country.

Scenes from the recent Mica protest in Dublin were stirring, with up to 30,000 of our citizens pouring from buses and cars onto the streets of Dublin. Much of the crowd travelled the long and winding roads from Donegal, with green and yellow jerseys standing out from the throng. But there were also families from Mayo, Clare and Limerick; the places where the sub-standard blocks used to build homes have wreaked the most devastating of consequences.

With Abramovich funding Chelsea, Fenway Sports funding Liverpool and Sheikh Mansour backing Manchester City, it is not a question for those clubs of how can they raise money to fund and build their clubs, but how can they spend the hundreds of millions of pounds available to make their clubs even richer and more successful.

As the Local Elections 2009 get underway, the cracks are beginning to show. Despite ambiguous smiles and friendly banter, the Labour camp is falling apart at the seams. Old Labour is dead and gone; it's with Seamy on New Street.

What a week in international politics?

An interesting week it has been. Kilkenny politics has taken a turn as Biffo waved his recession wand over the Marble City by casting to the back benches one of the only men capable of directing the Government out of the crisis they have gotten us in.